> I have a few friends running FreeNAS and they all seem to like it. One > of them is using it as an iSCSI target for his VMWare ESXi (almost all > of his home boxes are virtualized). I will probably always have a > reasonably beefy Linux box in the basement so having a seperate PC for > file sharing does not really make sense to me.
FreeNAS is sort of my front runner right now...but I need to look at the others more also. > I have a reasonably modern AMD machine that does frequency scaling, so > even with 8 drives it is not too bad on power. I also have a Dlink > DNS-323 (2x500GB) for network backups and a DNS-343 (4x1TB) for network > media storage. I tend to shy away from the older PCs for reliability, > performance, and energy consumption reasons. I am using the older pc for a couple of reasons: 1) It would just be sitting around anyways doing nothing 2) Want to play around & start experimenting a bit with SAN/NAS from an edumactional & practical perspecive 3) The Small form factor means in will fit on an already crowded desk. I COULD buy a device made for that or for the above reasons, but budget is limited right now & I don't learn anything from buying... other then how to spend more money. ;-) > PAM and Kerberos are two things you are probably going to want to read > up on. > For me I had Windows XP authenticating against the Linux "server" via > ssh and pGina. I would initially use Windows AD as the authentication mechanism so LDAP integration is important, but from what I have looked at so far it looks like all have that. I appreciate the insight on those though. > Depends. Unless storage really floats your boat or you really need it, > then yes you are probably nuts. Running Server 2003 at home also does > not make much sense to me Hehehe...so you agree that I am nuts then? As above I want to learn more about it & I thought what better way then to try and implement it in my home network. My apologies...I should have clarified about Win2K3. I have it because it was given free & because I have a lab (well sort of) to test things....play around.. etc. Essentially if there is something I want to learn & I can see a practical application for it in my business & professional development I will try and implement it in the lab, so that when it comes to real life application I have already done it a couple times. The 160GB drives are basically what I have available right now. I eventually see things in the Terabyte category as I continue to rip media, build a media server, etc....but we all have to start somewhere right??? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
