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

[Ajai Khattri]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Peter C. Norton wrote:

> 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.

Define "dumb". The HP device I mentioned earlier has some form of Linux on 
it (on a separate "system" disk NOT part of your RAIDed drives so its 
almost like a server with a drive array attached).

Also the Drobo device (Google for it) comes in two pieces: a dumb drive 
box which you can use alone or with an add-on device that plugs into your 
network.

In your case, could you not use a mini ITX machine to serve as file server 
and authenticator in front of your drives?



-- 
Aj.