RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-19 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 15:42 9/19/2003 -0700, you wrote: > Suggest you do hardware RAID, with 3Ware cards which are natively > supported and work great. I actually just installed a box that has three 17.5gb SCSI drives in it. It's using software raid at the moment and working fine. I didn't know you could do RAID-5 in

RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-19 Thread Chris W. Parker
Rodolfo J. Paiz on Friday, September 19, 2003 11:54 AM said: >> Also, do you know if Linux can support Raid 5 easily or is it a pain >> in the butt to get setup properly? > > Suggest you do hardware RAID, with 3Ware cards which are natively > supported and work grea

RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-19 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 12:21 9/9/2003 -0700, you wrote: Jason Dixon on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:16 PM said: > 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

RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-10 Thread Chris W. Parker
Gordon Messmer on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:53 PM said: > Our file server is a 2TB RAID5 system using SGI's XFS, running Red Hat > Linux 7.3. Samba has been recompiled to support ACLs. > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ Ok so does that mean you can set permiss

Re: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Chris W. Parker wrote: 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'm sure there are lots of them. I wouldn't call my emplo

Re: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Arden Norder
Hey Chris, I have done (several times) what sounds like you need to do shortly. The coolest project that I did was server recycling. The company that called me was running into a luxurious problem - their business was growing 200%+ faster than predicted. Their DB2 Database servers were seve

RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 05:21, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Jason Dixon > on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:16 PM said: > > > 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

Re: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 05:11, Chris W. Parker wrote: > 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? > > > Looking forw

RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Chris W. Parker
Thanks for your help Jason, Wade, and Benjamin. Sounds like it should be a doable project. I'll let you know when I get stuck! :) Chris. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> > Also, do you know if Linux can support Raid 5 easily or is it a pain in > > the butt to get setup properly? > > Support is good. Obviously, you'll want to research your options and > make an educated choice. If you're going with software RAID, you'll be > fine, but most folks will tell you to

Re: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> > Also, do you know if Linux can support Raid 5 easily or is it a pain in > > the butt to get setup properly? > > Support is good. Obviously, you'll want to research your options and > make an educated choice. If you're going with software RAID, you'll be > fine, but most folks will tell you to

RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Wade Chandler
environment for file serving 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 Profession

RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Jason Dixon
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:21, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Jason Dixon > on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:16 PM said: > > > 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

RE: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Chris W. Parker
Jason Dixon on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:16 PM said: > 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 > overh

Re: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Jason Dixon
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

linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-09 Thread Chris W. Parker
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 direc