network storage device choice

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 09:36, Richard Emberson wrote:

> Looking at a couple of them yesterday, they all have a
> windows configuration CD. Not having any Windows
> machines I felt better to ask here for solutions
> rather than buying into the unknown.
> 
> So, what network storage devices work on a pure
> Fedora network? I'd like to get 200GB or more storage.

The NAS devices I have worked with in the past used a web front end to
configure them.  The windows configuration CD you mentioned might be
drives for windows systems to use the NAS device but typically for
windows machines NAS devices appear as windows shares (samba type
shares).  Good NAS devices however should support NFS as well as windows
lan manager type file sharing.  

Check the ones you are looking at to determine if they can be setup just
using a browser.  It they can and they support NFS then you can use them
no problem.  If they only support Lan Manager type shares you can still
use them with Linux you will just need to configure samba on your
systems so you will have the permissions to access the NAS device.

Another alternative is that you can purchase 200GB harddrives (or
larger) for not to much money.  A couple of months back Compusa had a
sale going on for 250GB Maxtor drives for something like $150.  Probably
a lot cheaper than a NAS device.  You can just pop one in one of your
Linux boxes and use NFS to share it out.

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Scot L. Harris
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