I do a similar thing at home. I have a Dell PowerEdge sever, an old one with dual 1GHz processors running in the attic with 1.5TB of drives and a 40GB raid. It runs Windows Server 2003. It allows me to set up accounts for the various people in my house and assign what they can see. I have Linux, Mac, and Windows box. They all work well. I do not think that it supports Unix file permissions though. I also have hamachi set up so I can securely access the server from school and backup my files.
I relalize this might be overkill for what you want to do, but maybe some of it gave you some ideas. Mike On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I mentioned a while back, I have a LAN at home with a couple of > computers on it and want a convenient way to share files, mainly so we > can put our music on a centralized file server and listen to it from any > computer in the house. The only computers I care about connecting are > running Ubuntu or OS X. I'd certainly like to be able to limit who on > the LAN can access the files, and I'd prefer to also find something that > would support the Unix file permissions on the disk. What's the best > way to share these files? > > I've used Samba for this in the past, which worked okay, but is a little > weird with permissions due to its Windows origins. That was an > acceptable solution, but not ideal, and I ended up spending some time > fine-tuning the smb.conf file. Maybe NFS is a better option? Or can > WebDAV be used for this reasonably (I asked about this possibility in > the past)? As I said, Samba was a little bit of a pain to get working > the way I wanted. Is there a better solution or an equally good but > especially easy solution? > > Thanks for suggestions, > > Nick > > > > -- Proud owner of MikeTechGuy.com. If you need computer help, MikeTechGuy.com is the place for you to go!
