[Charlug] NAS...

[Todd Blake]

If you feel like doing the "heavy lifting" you can always just use linux as
well and manually configure all the necessary items.  Right now I have a
linux(CentOS) box at home doing multiple duties as:

Samba Server for the windows clients
NFS Server for the mac and any ad-hoc linux tinkering
Backups(homegrown)
Router/Firewall(iptables)
DHCP(ISC dhcpd)
Internal DNS/DDNS(ISC bind)
Web server if/when I need one

So it does all of the needed NAS stuff, but then is generally pretty simple
to pile on any other things you might need on a home network.  Plus with a
little extra work you can add mirroring, LVM, encrypted filesystems even and
other extra stuff to make managing it all simpler and more robust.

Ultimately though I guess it all boils down to how much work you wanna put
in vs having it "just work" vs having it "just work" the way you want it
too.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Peter Senft <peter.senft at hpss.de> wrote:

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> Hi @all,
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> as my RAID is currently falling apart and the Linux on my server is
> ancient (Debian potato with a lot of custom changes...) I am currently
> searching for a nice NAS box as a replacement. Does anybody know a nice
> box (without hard drives) that can do Gigabit Ethernet and is maybe
> running a customizable Linux?
>
> cu hps
>
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