NAS

martz · Rated R Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 54

there is a linux distro called "FreeNAS" which might be of interest to you. From what i can remember it's pretty good and isn't a big fat mama like most desktop derived solutions. I think it occupies 32mb and will go on a flash drive.

Get it here : http://www.freenas.org/

Of course, if you do want a full blooded file server, then i suggest you try SME Server. It is just the dog's doo-dahs. File / Print / HTTP / Mail / SQL / Proxy / AV / Spam / PDC / FTP ....... and you can hook in extended functionality with a couple of rpm's.

I run it on an HP E-Vectra P3-866 which is only slightly larger than a micro-itx system.

Get it here : http://www.contribs.org

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**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:03:56 Post Subject:

Free NAS site seems to be having problems... Bang Head

Thanks!

FireTech · Rated PG-13 Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 27

I like Clark Connect Home. It's 3.2 at the moment and heading to version 4 shortly. Very easy to install and set up.
I'm also going to give Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS Server a go too in the near future.

martz · Rated R Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 54

BB.... the FreeNAS site appears to be working now.

FireTech ..... yup, seen it before. I think Clark Connect and SME Server pretty much grew from the same Mitel Networks project.

It looks nice .... perhaps i'll fire it up in a VM and compare it with the SME Server. I would imagine the functionality is much the same ..... i just have SME tweaked to perfection Smile

Is Clark Connect still based around Redhat or have they moved to CentOS yet ?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:24:24 Post Subject:

home page works, but as soon as I click anything else I get database errors... even if I try to go back to the home page... Laughing

martz · Rated R Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 54

the site seems to be functional again ..... i guess they were just having a bad mysql day!

knight0334 · Posted: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:29:07 Post Subject:

that Clark Connect, anyone try it yet??

I'm thinking about trying it out..

martz · Rated R Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 54

having a look at it now, but my initial reaction is that SME Server has more to it, and might be more intuitive to operate.

i'll get back to you Grin

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martz · Rated R Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 54

hmmm..... i had a quick scoot around the web admin console.

i think if you want something that'll run straight out of the box, yet have serious capacity and flexibility, then SME Server is the way to go.

Dont get me wrong, Clarke Connect looks good .... very good in fact, but there's stuff thats missing, and it looks like theres a fair bit of fiddling to be done in the web admin control panel to get it running just the way you want it. A lot of services are off by default, and i could see this confusing the hell out of the un-initiated. Also the fact that the default admin login is root made my teeth itch.

I noticed the apache server seemed quite slow when directly compared to SME Server. Both OS's were run under VMWare Server on a 2.6GHz P4 with a gig of ram, and were configured with identical VM hardware.

I could probably produce a pros / cons list as long as your arm with a couple of weeks of playing, but this is just my initial impression.

martz · Rated R Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 54

i spent most of my afternoon at work (bad me Laughing

) having a look around clarke connect and you know what ..... i actually do like it. it's definitely aimed more at the home / soho market than SME server is, and it's less scalable but i do like the friendly interface. Anybody got any idea when the new version is due to be released ?