On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:11, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Hey everyone. > > We are getting close to needing some extra storage on our network and I > am doing a little research on our options right now. > > Originally I thought it would be a good idea to just get another > computer with some big HD's and put Windows 2000 Professional on it, > then share all the directories necessary. But then I got to reading > about a NAS device and thought that maybe THAT would be a BETTER idea. > The idea behind a NAS (afaik) is that a full blown operating system is > not necessary and therefore a much scaled down version would suffice if > the purpose of the server is to just server files. > > So then I thought it would be a good idea to just install RedHat 8 (or > 9) on this new server and use Samba to share the files to the Windows > computers. I'm thinking that this would be a better idea than a NAS > because there wouldn't be the cost of license for the os, and you could > probably scale down Linux much further than you could Windows (not > totally sure about that though). > > To make a long story short (or is it too late for that?) I'd like to > know what the people on the list have to say about that. In particular, > are there any Windows houses out there that use Linux as just a file > server?
I've done this for many of my clients, works great. You'll want someone who's familiar with Samba to setup permissions properly, but once that's done it should require very little administration overhead. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
