On Oct 4, 2011 8:41 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> 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. >
If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? Rgds,
