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 1RB8Y4-0001uu-Gp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:12:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9529221C149; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:12:42 +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 A631E21C0BF for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qafi31 with SMTP id i31so1055176qaf.40 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:11:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=634qG+2dBqzV2twQlG6nJBYVpRUtl64Ij5asOmOGnLk=; b=aztFg+dD1gqYOOQTMVNECjvKgm5u85it/ClOlNHiQ37HGOogPF6M6LcncavLVw5sAj 3ZPGkjVGn8hQoJLLNucPa1RcT1Bvfn9LWK4D4wNaN3HSEZlJNZkpZi36+UgD21pNw13v pCy3QIiqKtQz5HQEQr6cRa9p0tQ/00F1anMUM= 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 10.224.178.67 with SMTP id bl3mr1109023qab.235.1317748303165; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.80.209 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:11:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E8B3BD0.8000802@badapple.net> References: <4E8B3BD0.8000802@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:11:43 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 19b482435b4f7856c5154fb456524565 On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM, kashani wrote: > On 10/4/2011 8:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Yes. Samba is the basis of the link above, and I figure it's going to >> be the underlying technology that does the work. I was just wondering >> if there was a more user oriented, possibly GUI based app that did all >> the dirty work sort of like the CUPS web interface does with CUPS >> configuration. > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0In Samba's case the config is pretty simple if= you ignore printing > which you should. Just add the IP range, setup a share, and add some > accounts or leave it public. Probably take longer to setup a gui. > > kashani > > I suspect you are right, but Alan's recommendation of wicd was so easy to set up and use I'm hoping someone did something similar for NAS solutions. Also, my VMs are both Win XP and Win 7, and my understanding of those is that remote support is different, so I'm concerned I'll end up going down some rabbit hole trying to get the new setup to support everything, but maybe I'm wrong about that? - Mark