How do I get a mirrored array to show up as a drive?

[Stattlich]

Just built a new server and I can't get my new RAID1 setup (2 Seagate SATA 300GB Barracudas) to show up as a single drive under 'My Computer' so I can enable it as a shared drive. Any tips?

 

[Stattlich]

Forgot to mention- the SATA array is a backup for the primary working system drive, a normal PATA Seagate 80GB.

 

[JDMnAR1]

Can you see the new array in Disk Management?

 

[Stattlich]

Cripes... Disk Management. Yes, I'm a moron. Ok, it's formatting now (~600GB is gonna take all afternoon).

While I've got a little attention here, how do I create secure directories on this array that other people on the LAN can login to and backup their own data?

 

[JDMnAR1]

I hope you are formatting NTFS. Are you on a domain, or strictly peer to peer?

 

[Stattlich]

Well ok, I'm not that much of a moron- yes it'll be NTFS. This is a peer-to-peer network. Something you can just attach a PC to, set for 'WORKGROUP', and share network resources with all other LAN devices.

 

[Nothinman]

Create accounts for all users, create directories for them, assign ACLs to those directories.

 

[Stattlich]

Got it. What are ACLs? Sorry, I'm new at doing this specifically.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Stattlich
Got it. What are ACLs? Sorry, I'm new at doing this specifically.

Access Control Lists. Make sure you create appropriate accounts and give them appropriate permissions.

Don't give everyone full control rights, and limit important ones to as few users as possible.

 

[Stattlich]

I saw something in there about Quotas- is that the same thing? There didn't seem to be a way to create logins for seperate people (though I hadn't added accounts yet either).

 

[nweaver]

normally, the "best practice" is "everyone" and "full control" on the share itself, and you use NTFS permissions (security tab) to actually secure the files.

 

[Stattlich]

Makes sense- I'll check that out shortly.

Is there anything else I need to know? I want to set this up where users can login with a username and password (or just a password- however it can be setup), see their new empty folder, and start copy and pasting their backup data to it, though they can't see anybody else's folder.

I'm fairly fluent with stuff like this in FTP, but never done it locally...

 

[Nothinman]

You can't hide the other directories from them AFAIK, that's something from NetWare that MS never stole^Wimplemented.