Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-23 Thread A Rossi
This has plenty to do with OpenBSD, the central server is OpenBSD and getting it to play nice with windows has to do with it also. Henning Brauer wrote: this has nothing to do with openbsd. please take it elsewhere. * Daniel A. Ramaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-21 03:42]: On

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-23 Thread A Rossi
Thank you all and good night! Chris Zakelj wrote: A Rossi wrote: Hi, I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network services for him, most of which are completely unrelated to my topic. Now, onto my topic: He asked me if I could partition all of his

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-23 Thread ober
, A Rossi wrote: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:53:09 -0800 From: A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: network distributed storage with windows? Thank you all and good night! Chris Zakelj wrote: A Rossi wrote: Hi, I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-21 Thread Steve Shockley
A Rossi wrote: I like this idea. But one question: is it possible for the OpenBSD box to access all these hidden partitions through SMB as one large storage space possibly with some kind of error protection? This sound like it might be more of a Samba question... But I'll ask here anyways.

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-21 Thread A Rossi
You may want to experiment with hiding the drives through GP, hidden might not fit your definition of can't access. I'd probably hide it and change permissions for no access. I can do both, right? Sure, you should just be able to browse to \\server\e$ (or equivalent) and access the drive.

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-21 Thread Graham Gower
On 22/02/06, A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to experiment with hiding the drives through GP, hidden might not fit your definition of can't access. I'd probably hide it and change permissions for no access. I can do both, right? Sure, you should just be able to browse to

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-21 Thread A Rossi
Very interesting. export all via nfs But is NFS a requirement, or can I make do with windows XP's SMB implementation? Remember, the partitions are under windows, I want OpenBSD to be the computer that does the backing up onto those. I will try this one. But it lacks the error-recovery I

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-21 Thread Graham Gower
On 22/02/06, A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very interesting. export all via nfs But is NFS a requirement, or can I make do with windows XP's SMB implementation? Remember, the partitions are under windows, I want OpenBSD to be the computer that does the backing up onto those. I had

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-20 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 16 February 2006 01:58, A Rossi wrote: My client didn't really like the idea of just making a windows partition and disallowing the users from accessing it with permissions, because then they'd know about something... And some might complain about it being broken - they have

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-20 Thread A Rossi
I like this idea. But one question: is it possible for the OpenBSD box to access all these hidden partitions through SMB as one large storage space possibly with some kind of error protection? This sound like it might be more of a Samba question... But I'll ask here anyways. thanks Daniel A.

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-16 Thread Eric Johnson
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:58:32 -0800 A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a multitude of options I have! I'll probably end up not reporting these solutions to my client, so that he'll use a more traditional backup method. The OpenAFS solution would be nice, if I could find it in package

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-16 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi, On 2006.02.16, at 6:58 PM, A Rossi wrote: My apologies to those of you who use console-based mail clients. I'm still trying to figure out how to get Thunderbird to wrap my text at 72 characters. Yes, I know about the setting under Tools Options, but that doesn't seem to be working

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-16 Thread Shane J Pearson
On 2006.02.17, at 1:37 AM, Shane J Pearson wrote: I use this marker in my sig and newline manually in Apple Mail because I haven't found out how to make Apple Mail wrap at 72. For any OSX Mail and OpenBSD users who I might have led astray here, forget I said this. Someone pointed out to me

network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-15 Thread A Rossi
Hi, I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network services for him, most of which are completely unrelated to my topic. Now, onto my topic: He asked me if I could partition all of his workstation computers (running windows XP Professional SP2) with a windows partition, and a

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-15 Thread Chris Zakelj
A Rossi wrote: Hi, I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network services for him, most of which are completely unrelated to my topic. Now, onto my topic: He asked me if I could partition all of his workstation computers (running windows XP Professional SP2) with a windows

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-15 Thread A Rossi
As I though. That is what I told my client. Thank you for verifying my knowledge. Chris Zakelj wrote: A Rossi wrote: Hi, I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network services for him, most of which are completely unrelated to my topic. Now, onto my topic: He asked me if I

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-15 Thread ober
you're me, make a managerial decision: you find this, what would you do? On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, A Rossi wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:53:14 -0800 From: A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: network distributed storage with windows? Hi, I've been hired by a client to perform

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-15 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi, On 2006.02.16, at 12:53 PM, A Rossi wrote: He asked me if I could partition all of his workstation computers (running windows XP Professional SP2) with a windows partition, and a hidden partition which occupies most of the disk, that is accessible over the network to OpenBSD (actually he

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-15 Thread Eric Johnson
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:53:14 -0800 A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network services for him, most of which are completely unrelated to my topic. Now, onto my topic: He asked me if I could partition all of his workstation computers

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-15 Thread Eric Johnson
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:53:14 -0800 A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network services for him, most of which are completely unrelated to my topic. Now, onto my topic: He asked me if I could partition all of his workstation computers

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-15 Thread A Rossi
What a multitude of options I have! I'll probably end up not reporting these solutions to my client, so that he'll use a more traditional backup method. The OpenAFS solution would be nice, if I could find it in package form for OpenBSD, or a port for FreeBSD, but I can find neither. Also,