[nylug-talk] Slim home server for samba and subversion (and possibly IMAP)

[Peter C. Norton]

I want to re-focus this on the second-order problem that comes from
these discussions: once you have a "dumb" nas device, you have
problems that come from not having a dumb network that they live
on. Authentication between windows, linux, and possibly mac and
various other strange OS' in VMs is hard (both mainstream and bleeding
edge free os's for example), or at least is hard to do on
constrained-hardware systems. 

I'm considering that it's not currently possible to have one box to do
it all, because memory constraints in these boxes (jeez, 256 mb is
"constrained" with directory services!). I'm thinking it'd be good to
have a low-power system to do directory services - something that
doesn't need a lot of disk activity, and have it act as the
LDAP+Kerberos auth for a dumb disk system. 

Has anyone set this up? My goal is that I already have a small linux
NAS box (thecus) and I want to maximize it's performance as a music
and file server, and I want to minimize the wattage and the noise from
the directory services box. My main system is not an option because
it's a multi-boot system. My old transmeta laptop is ideal. I will be
trying to do this, but I keep putting it off "until samba-ng is
ready". Huh.

-Peter

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