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dnssec is a joke. It still doesn't fix the issue.
djbdns does support srv records http://www.anders.com/projects/sysadmin/djbdnsRecordBuilder/#SRV

Yes, there is other dns software other than bind. But djbdns is small, secure and easy to setup.

Agreed. As a younger kid, I always shy'd away from messing w/DNS solely because I didn't want to take the plunge into BIND's complexity. The company I work for now uses djbdns for it's internal DNS. As a sysadmin who had to familiarize myself with it, I'll have to say it's such a pleasure to work with. My only nag is that it be updated such that its tools to add records support some of the newer records, like SRV. But there are web-based tools that make up for these short-comings.

Blurring out human faces is all well and good, but what about all those cats? Won't someone please think of those poor cats who can't even groom themselves or pose with a favored cat toy to make themselves at least presentable? Those poor, POOR KITTIEZ!

I've been running samba in my home firewall/filestore box for ages. On a lark I recently pkg_add'd netatalk -- and managed to "just share" stuff with exactly one simple line in a config file:

Now compare this to samba. It hurts my head to think that Apple-heads have had this kind of stuff for over a decade (and nobody told me)!

PS. I later got fancy and added "options:usedots" to the line, so that unix users won't see the odd :2E files left by mac clients. Almost doubled the complexity *ugh*.

Mac OS versions going back at least as far as 8.0 can mount AppleShare volumes over TCP/IP, and 9.0 and later can serve AppleShare over TCP/IP. So can netatalk+asun, which I run on my NetBSD box.

1) Get:
- 1U 4bays rack mountable chassis from Sliger Designs
- 3WARE 6410 Escalade IDE controller (Choice of 0/1/0+1/5 Raid) on a 90 PCI riser card
- 4 x 75/100GB ATA100 drives (maybe DiamondMax)
- MicroATX mainboard with NIC and Video integrated on board (invest in RAM not in processing power - 750/850MHZ should be more than sufficient)
- Minimum Linux/*BSD OS booting from a read-only 16 to 64MB flash IDE device, loading kernel and a customised Ramdisk root filesystem, mounting Raid devices in R/W mode, starting SAMBA (and/or Netatalk).
A good starting point is Linux Bootdisk HOWTO

2) Choose 0+1 Raid and you get quick and completely redundant 150/200GB storage that can survive the full failure of one disk.

3) Want remote grafical managment from a standard web browser? Go for Webmin or SWAT.