On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 10:12, Chris Mauritz wrote:
I'm looking to find a Linux NAS solution for a Windows network. Looking into FreeNAS and OpenFiler. Anyone using these or any other solution? Any comments/suggestions?
Any linux box running samba will work. If you want something that is appliance-like but can supply other services (email, web, ftp, etc.) if you want them, look at SME server at www.contribs.org. Version 7 that is in pre-release now is based on Centos but the administration is all through simple web forms.
Interesting project. I just searched through the web pages and didn't see a list of the various tools/packages used. What does it use for a mail server?
It's an odd mix of qmail with a replacement front-end in perl (qpsmtpd) that can do spam/virus scans, maildir format delivery and dovecot for imap/pop. Performance is pretty good. It also has hoarde/imp for webmail and one of the management simplifications is that if you add a 'group', you get a unix permissions group that can be used for file sharing and an email group address at the same time.