Bill, What sort of throughput do you get? And what about that guest user issue? Hey, you left the Crepeville social early!
brian On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:30:48PM -0800, Aaron Brayton wrote: > Bill, > > Thanks for sharing your info about your NAS. I'm looking into if that > device will serve my purpose, which is the same as yours, or if it's too > big. > > I am concerned about being able to easily see it on the network. From > what you wrote I'm under the impression you have yet to get it up and > running and mounted, yet alone automatically mounted. May I ask that > you post an update with the settings you've used once you get it working? > > I wish I could be more help, but I'm a novice with Linux, but I'm > extremely happy with it as an alternative to MS. > > Thanks! > Aaron > > > > Bill Kendrick wrote: > > Upon a recommendation from Brian and Harry from SacLUG, who > > went to Fry's with me yesterday, I purchased a Promise Technology > > SmartStor NS2300N NAS enclosure. Together with a 1TB drive, > > it ended up being about $70 cheaper than a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo > > (with a drive built-in, but only 500GB) that I was seriously > > considering. > > > > It does NFS, SMB, FTP, and has a bunch of other features I > > may never use. It can be managed via a web interface, which > > is great. (Just like the Brother networked printer I also > > bought recently -- and also for a lot cheaper than I would have > > expected -- it was a no-brainer to set-up, and does not require > > a Windows box or funky drivers to use, though it does come with > > a CDROM with Windows and Mac(?) management apps.) > > > > I like that I can set up users and groups, and am trying to > > think of best way of setting up some public and private > > directories on the drive. The main way they'd be accessed > > is via mounting them on a pair of Linux laptops, and since I'm > > not an fstab expert, I'd love some assistance with that. :) > > (I used to run a Samba server, but that box has been retired and > > recently wiped clean, to be donated to someone who needs a PC. > > Everything it did has been replaced by simpler, stand-alone > > devices.) > > > > The purpose of the drive is mainly: > > > > 1. central repository for all of our ripped audio, > > such that Amarok can access it easily > > > > 2. central repository for all of our family photos > > > > 3. data backups (laptops, webserver dumps, perhaps even some > > work stuff, just to have something off-site) > > > > The ReadyNAS Duo apparently has Bonjour, and I don't believe > > the device I bought does. Brian was telling me that Bonjour is > > a way of broadcasting the availability of the drive, so that > > PCs on the network can discover it. > > > > Assuming I DON'T have this available to me, I guess I simply > > need to add some lines to /etc/fstab for the folders in question, > > providing the username/password (or pointing to a > > root-only-readable password file, if I recall). Then users > > (my wife and I) would need to issue "mount /whatever" to mount > > the drive. (I also need to remember how to give specific users > > permissions to mount, so that sudo isn't involved each time. > > Is it via sudoers?) > > > > My biggest concern is making sure everyone who should be able > > to read/write to public space can, and that permissions and > > ownership make sense on the laptops. This might require making > > separate users on each laptop...? > > > > I have to make one complaint... the command-line example they > > provided for mounting on Linux/Unix was not only full of typos > > (forgot "/" when they were explaining "mkdir /SmartStor", > > and included a space between "/" and "SmartStor" in the mount > > example), but it simply didn't work, even when I accounted for this. > > > > Anyway, tips here would be welcome. (Otherwise, just consider > > this a report of: "this device works pretty nicely with Linux" :) ) > > > > PS - We're using Kubuntu 8.10 on our laptops. > > > > Thx & happy new year, > > > > -bill! > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
