Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of >> > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of > > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? > > > > Rgds, > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. I

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM, kashani wrote: > On 10/4/2011 8:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Yes. Samba is the basis of the link above, and I figure it's going to >> be the underlying technology that does the work. I was just wondering >> if there was a more user oriented, possibly GUI based a

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? > > Rgds, > Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about any of these. Some comments: 1) The machine i

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread kashani
On 10/4/2011 8:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Yes. Samba is the basis of the link above, and I figure it's going to be the underlying technology that does the work. I was just wondering if there was a more user oriented, possibly GUI based app that did all the dirty work sort of like the CUPS web inte

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 4, 2011 8:41 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > > I've got a 2 year old Gentoo machine that got patched together using a > lot of small hard drives which worked fine for what I used the machine > for 2-3 years ago but the machine isn't getting used much anymore. The > processor, memory & MB are all

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:43, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Spidey wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:38, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >> > >> Years ago I tried this basic guide: > >> > >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml > >> > >> I don't remember why but

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Spidey wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:38, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Years ago I tried this basic guide: >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml >> >> I don't remember why but I didn't have much luck with it. However it's >> been updated and cle

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Spidey
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:38, Mark Knecht wrote: > I've got a 2 year old Gentoo machine that got patched together using a > lot of small hard drives which worked fine for what I used the machine > for 2-3 years ago but the machine isn't getting used much anymore. The > processor, memory & MB are

[gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
I've got a 2 year old Gentoo machine that got patched together using a lot of small hard drives which worked fine for what I used the machine for 2-3 years ago but the machine isn't getting used much anymore. The processor, memory & MB are all reasonably good - i5-661 & 4GB - but my laptop & VM co