File Server in linux or Free BSD

peang

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Can somebody tell me step by step how to create file server in linux or FreeBSD with multiple drives?
actually i don't know anything about both of them but it's just i want to try build one. :)

where i can find a good resource about setting up one (like File Server for dummies or something) :)


thank you for the answer
 

lowtech1

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Use what ever you are comfortable with. Download a distro that have good man pages such as Mandrake, Redhat, or Debian to try out same goes with BSD.
 

Soybomb

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Yup, just pick one and start reading, the freebsd handbook at freebsd.org contains a ton of information if thats the route you use. We'd need more information on file server anyway. By multiple drives do you mean you want raid, if so hardware or software and what partitions do you want setup on raid. Either way, do you want to share it over NFS, samba or something else? You could write a book to answer your question :D Just pick a OS, install it, and start playing. Read and figure out what you need to do to accomplish a certain task and just make your way one step at a time.
 

Mucman

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Do it with whatever you are most comfortable with... You can have an NFS server running in less than an hour with FreeBSD.

I got a P150 32M 80GB + 60GB + FreeBSD 4.6 doing a nice job sharing my mp3s and /home directories to all my machines. I can
format my computer and re-install and my /home/mucman will be intact :)

What makes it even easier is that I didn't even have to mess around with any ports on this machine! NFS works straight out of the
box so I got a minimal setup on the machine. I installed dnscache on it to do DNS, but I installed that from the source to appease
good ol djb :)
 

Superwormy

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Download OS. Install OS. Download SAMBA. Install SAMBA. Configure SAMBA. Done.

To elaborate a little bit, for FreeBSD...

Download ISO from www.freeBSD.org mirror. Burn ISO to CD. Install OS. Type:

cd /usr/ports/net/samba/ [ENTER]
make install [ENTER]

wait for compile...


cd /etc/ [ENTER]
vim inetd.conf [ENTER]

( UNCOMMENT last 3 lines )

:wq! [ENTER]
reboot [ENTER]

Go to windows computer, http://IPADDRESSOFFREEBSDCOMPUTER:901/
Configure Samba using SWAT

Done
 

peang

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thank you all for the reply,
i'll try to play around a little bit now, since you all said it's not that hard :D
wish it will work out well :)