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On Oct 4, 2011 8:41 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've got a 2 year old Gentoo machine that got patched together using a |
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> lot of small hard drives which worked fine for what I used the machine |
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> for 2-3 years ago but the machine isn't getting used much anymore. The |
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> processor, memory & MB are all reasonably good - i5-661 & 4GB - but |
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> my laptop & VM compute server are both faster - so I was wondering |
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> what I might do with the box. I saw a Wired article last night about a |
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> guy building a NAS box using Debian which got me thinking. I've got a |
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> bunch of 1TB Green drives which would make a good base for storage so |
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> there's no cost in doing this, but I don't know anything about network |
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> attached storage that just works out of the box with Windows clients |
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> and I have NO desire (or time) to spend learning stuff that's very |
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> Windows specific. |
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> If there is a good solution for me it needs to support both Win XP and |
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> Win 7 machine and shouldn't require anything be added to the Windows |
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> VM. |
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> Years ago I tried this basic guide: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml |
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> I don't remember why but I didn't have much luck with it. However it's |
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> been updated and cleaned up a lot so maybe it's OK. |
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> Thanks in advance for any ideas. |
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If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of |
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installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? |
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Rgds, |