From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RB5Dw-0000ab-P4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:39:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1551C21C0C6; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:39:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313B121C091 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qafi31 with SMTP id i31so658572qaf.40 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:38:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=PfZe6dyEcpt5ky7nah2lyT7nRgwEnjLgfXN1rHDjip4=; b=MChIDjPDA0tsq/Wcn3dAgNyUk5nrIJu5gQeDHevCJ5WUy05kiedQOFd8dgAnjpfj0b 6nj+IAEb+TLaNTuxPRXOept75/6KQawH/4io68NCS40/C2GmRPS3k7UBZCGCB7ByMtYL A/0X7WpuzLdC6I2krVk7AhCyas61MvxWYnkx8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.184.3 with SMTP id ci3mr956562qab.185.1317735537631; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.80.209 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 06:38:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 06:38:55 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'? From: Mark Knecht To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4039aea4fbb63758501072891c64b576 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