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

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 all reasonably good - i5-661 & 4GB - but
my laptop & VM compute server are both faster - so I was wondering
what I might do with the box. I saw a Wired article last night about a
guy building a NAS box using Debian which got me thinking. I've got a
bunch of 1TB Green drives which would make a good base for storage so
there's no cost in doing this, but I don't know anything about network
attached storage that just works out of the box with Windows clients
and I have NO desire (or time) to spend learning stuff that's very
Windows specific.

If there is a good solution for me it needs to support both Win XP and
Win 7 machine and shouldn't require anything be added to the Windows
VM.

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 cleaned up a lot so maybe it's OK.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Cheers,
Mark

The easiest solution, most used, is probably SAMBA. You should give it a
chance again.

Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey)
hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr
Engenharia de Computaçà£o - UFES 2006/1


<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:38, Mark Knecht <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:"></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

I&#39;ve got a 2 year old Gentoo machine that got patched together using a<br>
lot of small hard drives which worked fine for what I used the machine<br>
for 2-3 years ago but the machine isn&#39;t getting used much anymore. The<br>
processor, memory &amp; MB are all reasonably good - i5-661 &amp; 4GB  - but<br>
my laptop &amp; VM compute server are both faster - so I was wondering<br>
what I might do with the box. I saw a Wired article last night about a<br>
guy building a NAS box using Debian which got me thinking. I&#39;ve got a<br>
bunch of 1TB Green drives which would make a good base for storage so<br>
there&#39;s no cost in doing this, but I don&#39;t know anything about network<br>
attached storage that just works out of the box with Windows clients<br>
and I have NO desire (or time) to spend learning stuff that&#39;s very<br>
Windows specific.<br>
<br>
If there is a good solution for me it needs to support both Win XP and<br>
Win 7 machine and shouldn&#39;t require anything be added to the Windows<br>
VM.<br>
<br>
Years ago I tried this basic guide:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-....xml" target="_blank">http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-...<br>
<br>
I don&#39;t remember why but I didn&#39;t have much luck with it. However it&#39;s<br>
been updated and cleaned up a lot so maybe it&#39;s OK.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance for any ideas.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Mark<br>
<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>The easiest solution, most used, is probably SAMBA. You should give it a chance again.<br><br clear="all">Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey)<br>hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr<br>Engenharia de Computaçà£o - UFES 2006/1<br>


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