On 11/27/11 10:19 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Is there a way to use an old G5 power mac as an ethernet disk? just like
you would use an ethernet attached hard drive? no monitor, keyboard or
mouse...... I know I have to have an OS on it, but other than that,
nothing.... it needs to be seen on the LAN as a ethernet disk???
Well, simplest way is to export the drives over NFS, SMB, or AFP in OS
X/X Server, then anything on the network can access it that can use one
of those protocols.
I have a MacPro that is pretty much essentially that - a NAS (network
attached storage), hooked up over fibrechannel to a XServe RAID array.
The macs on the network access its filesystems over AFP and SMB for the
windows clients.
Now, if you want to get creative or more complicated, you could in
theory export partitions off the hard drive as iSCSI targets. Theres
not much in the way of iscsi target software for the mac though.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1869065?start=0&tstart=0
GlobalSAN has a initiator which is the client side of it. But, you need
a target on the G5.
Not for the faint of heart really. I've got a setup like this in
service with a Linux box as the target. It was a bit of a hassle to get
working right and does take a bit of UNIX knowledge to do it right.
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