How do you get it to work as a stand-alone NAS? It has four methods of user authentication - and all them require an external server. (For user authentication, you must have one of the following: NIS server, LDAP server, Windows Domain Controller, or a Kerberos server.)
I know the documentation used to be pretty poor for OpenFiler, but the forum is very useful, filled with HowTo's. You no longer need anything external for authentication, it can use an internal LDAP server, as well as internal Active Directory and old style NT4 Domain.
I have one set as the LDAP server, then 3 others that look to the first as the LDAP server and users/groups are available across all the OpenFiler servers. I also see some new even cooler features in the 2.3 release, I've still using 2.2 myself. But with a cheap Dell 53xx series switch, ethernet bonding works great, not so with the old and even cheaper Cisco 29xx/35xx switches. But using NFS and rsync speed of the network isn't so important to me, I do have some 20 servers backing up remotely over a frac OC3 and they get done within a couple hours.
I'm not saying OpenFiler is the be all end all to NAS needs, I was simply making a suggestion, and it works perfectly for my needs, I have 100% control of the hardware used, if I want to sling in a huge software raid0, no problem, and the kernel supports most popular hardware raid cards. But if it's been years since you last looked at it, it has defiantly come a long way and might be worth another look.
Also in the home brew camp would be OpenFiler which I have a few I've built. Tyan has a nice 1U case with 4 hot swap bays that is reasonable, then their S2925 motherboard will support the Phenom (overkill on a NAS) but a nice X2 4000 is super cheap, and the board supports cheap RAM, add in a 3Ware 9650 for sata raid, or I've really started liking the Adaptec 3405 for SATA/SAS.
I personally don't use Samba for anything, like your cleaning lady, I don't do Windows, but I've at least tested it and seems to work fine. LDAP is supported as well as NT4 and Active Directory for authentication. I have 4 boxes setup using LDAP and backup 300 servers between them and I simply never have to do anything except define new shares when I need one.
Now maybe if all of us/.'ers put our money together we can stop this evil force...
I donate to EFF whenever possible, they seem to be the most in-line with my thoughts and feelings on most of the issues they raise. I do believe they offer a monthly subscription as well.
In the US the phone lines are consistently referred to as "the public network" in FCC rules and regulations. I owned an ISP in Michigan and yes the telcos did squeeze out the small guys. SBC offered to sell me DSL lines at 37.99 per month when they were selling them at 39.99 per month. For that measly 2.00 per month per customer I was expected to provide tech support, billing and collection services and accept all of the bad debt risk. At that point I decided to get out of the ISP business and concentrate of other things. Pity that one large company can put 6,000 small ISPs out of business when their infrastructure was given to them by the people (think of the right of way behind you house that they use for nothing.
I too was a fairly large ISP in St Louis, and was squeezed out by SBC, but didn't go away without a small fight.
I really wish you didn't post AC, but that is your choice, at least I can respond instead of use mod points now.
Also in that fantastic $2/mo gross profit you got the privilege of paying $3,200/mo for a DS3 into the SBC ATM cloud, and then also had to provide transit to your customer. I never chose to provide DSL and sold the company at a fire sale after failing. But I learned alot over that 90's on how not to do stuff, and little by little I've scratched back just providing web hosting that I can now earn a modest living, but I'm sure my days are numbered in this market as well, can't allow the little guy to earn a living doing their own thing when some big corporate entity could much better use those profits for their shareholders, why on earth would I think I deserve to put food on the table and a roof over my head.
The doctrine of the "right to travel" actually encompasses three separate rights, of which two have been notable for the uncertainty of their textual support. The first is the right of a citizen to move freely between states, a right venerable for its longevity, but still lacking a clear doctrinal basis.1858 The second, expressly addressed by the first sentence of Article IV, provides a citizen of one State who is temporarily visiting another state the "Privileges and Immunities" of a citizen of the latter state.1859 The third is the right of a new arrival to a state, who establishes citizenship in that state, to enjoy the same rights and benefits as other state citizens. This right is most often invoked in challenges to durational residency requirements, which require that persons reside in a state for a specified period of time before taking advantage of the benefits of that state's citizenship.
It appears the TSA believes that if we just get rid of all those windows, no more elves, er, I mean terrorists will come through them!! I'm thinking with the combination of higher fuel costs, and the TSA, the airline industry will cease to exist as it does today. It is becoming to expensive and troublesome to fly for many. I choose not to fly, and I would like to travel, but do not wish to feed the fear mongers by showing compliance with worthless rules.
Maybe you misunderstood me, I am all for nationalizing the last mile. Be it locally, by county, state, or federally. Locally and by county would probably be bad as too many city/county councils are controlled by the ILEC anyway, and and federally would also be bad as they seem to have a way of not being able to do anything right to start with.
Too bad for you that the ISPs are a monopoly due to "control by government busy-bodies". Or are you suggesting that every single ISP/cable company/power company/water company/sewage company be required to run their own pipes to your house?
And why doesn't it make sense that the pipes/wires/drainage belong to the people instead and then the service providers can all lease that from some management authority to gain access to the last mile and provide everyone service?
I have about 100 servers for my small hosting business, 100% AMD, and I can think of only 1 machine that has an AMD chipset on it, and it still has Broadcom nic's and some not well know video on the board, a Tyan dual opteron board, so not some cheap desktop equipment either.
I recently compared a Dell dual quad opteron and a like Dell dual quad Xeon, and wound up buying a few Tyan barebone dual quad's with adaptec raid cards and double the ram and still saved a couple bucks over anything Dell could do for me. And since Dell was right there in line like a good puppy to the Intel overlords, I've avoided their products since the P3.
I have always felt AMD has been beat down unfairly, and other than the K6 stuff, have always bought their products since the 386's
While I love my eee, and yes, still using the Xandros that it came with as everything just works. I tried 5 other distro's and all had some little difference or another where stuff needed more tweaking. But I personally would prefer Fedora on it, and eeeDora needs alot of tweaking still, so since once you enable the advanced desktop you have KDE, it's really moot to me as I just use it as a display then.
I would buy a Dell if it wasn't for the fact it only comes with Ubuntu, but there is alot to be said for everything just working if the manufacturer took the time to do all the tweaking, and Asus has done just that.
More specifically, these customers 'can choose web videos downloaded on the home PC using web browsers, RSS video clients such as iTunes podcasts, or other video download software to automatically copy to their TiVo DVR's Now Playing List alongside recorded broadcast and cable TV shows.
I've had most of these features with SageTV for well over a year, infact I ditched Tivo for Sage over 4 years ago.
are there any other registrars that are not "evil"? I have reseller accounts with Enom and ResellerOne (Directi) and I rarely use Enom other than to maintain domains previously registered there as transferring registrars is a major PITA.
I've had to use ResellerOne support a couple of times over the past and I must say their support is fantastic, you get a knowledgeable person who picks up the phone at odd hours of the day. My only beef about ResellerOne is their API, I cannot do everything through it I would want to with my billing software and I do not want my customers seeing their interface, even though I have it customized with my information on it, I do not want them to even see it as they offer hosting as well, and it is a far cry from good hosting for what my customer would be looking for. They are an Indian company, so US law will have no effect, and I think most/all of their datacenters are outside of the US as well.
but they don't listen to you because their job is 100% useless 99.9% of the time, and identifying the remaining.1% of the time is trivial. This is so dead on from my experience being in the Air Force back on the early 80's at least. Reminds me of the time we jacked the security guys at gunpoint when they crossed our barrier on the flight line with live weapons on the aircraft. You need to remember that at least what I saw in the Air Force, those that washed out of their chosen career due to not being able to complete the training became cops.
Maybe they can amend to: "Cyber: As in Computers". Probably double their funding...
At least they are seeing this as an issue. Shocking that the most desirable candidates do not fancy running 3 miles with packs. That does not seem as entertaining with a wealth of other job prospects. What 3 miles? I seem to recall my time at Lackland AFB and we worked our way upto 1.5 miles over a 6 week period, then in my 3+ years at Wheeler AFB on Oahu, I ran 1.5 miles once a year. I didn't want to join the military, so I joined the Air Force, just another job, everyone just happens to wear green. I guess it's BDU's now though, my time was in the early 80's.
there are some things that a government has to provide if it doesn't want the nation to slide into feudalism. Which is exactly why the founding fathers put in place a way to amend the constitution. If it is not in the constitution, the Federal Government has no right to weigh in on it. If the People wish the Government to weigh in on it, amend the constitution so they can.
After this christmas, I'm not boarding a plane ever again. The airlines can all die in some sort of fiery explosion for all I care. Why wait that long? I've not flown, taken a train, or bus anyplace in years, I choose not to drive for the sole reason of not having to prove I am me, no State ID card either. Guess what, I have not had a single problem doing as I wish. I have a pre-paid master card to buy things on/offline, banks accounts from ages ago, and an ATM card, so no need, but I guess I am kinda locked into what I had before all this crazyness started.
It is going to get ALOT worse than it is today if the NH primaries are any indication of what America really wants. I feel it is truly sad that today many view positions of Ron Paul as crazy, but with McCain getting 37% of the republican vote in NH, a war mongering we will go..........
There are some 10-15 million rabid Sony hating Xbox/Microsoft fans in the US. They will support any 'not Sony format' with a fanatical commitment
If true, that is by far one of the most alarming statistics I have ever read. If large cooperations marketing has succeeded to the point that there are 10 million people that will not buy a company's product regardless of its technical merits and price point, we've reached a truly low point in society. Ummm, betamax, 8-track tapes.....
Seriously, ending trade with China would most likely do more to cut particulate pollution (25% of LA's comes from China) You can make that choice yourself, why wait for the US Government to step in where it doesn't belong in the first place. If you make a personal choice that buying products of China do harm, do not purchase products from China.
My personal belief is that trading with countries will have and end positive result as the population eventually will see their Government for what it is and change will occur. I don't care how oppressive a government is, if you have 1,000,000,000+ people of your population rising against you, you'll be running for the exit while your head is still upon your shoulders.
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How do you get it to work as a stand-alone NAS? It has four methods of user authentication - and all them require an external server. (For user authentication, you must have one of the following: NIS server, LDAP server, Windows Domain Controller, or a Kerberos server.)
I know the documentation used to be pretty poor for OpenFiler, but the forum is very useful, filled with HowTo's. You no longer need anything external for authentication, it can use an internal LDAP server, as well as internal Active Directory and old style NT4 Domain.
I have one set as the LDAP server, then 3 others that look to the first as the LDAP server and users/groups are available across all the OpenFiler servers. I also see some new even cooler features in the 2.3 release, I've still using 2.2 myself. But with a cheap Dell 53xx series switch, ethernet bonding works great, not so with the old and even cheaper Cisco 29xx/35xx switches. But using NFS and rsync speed of the network isn't so important to me, I do have some 20 servers backing up remotely over a frac OC3 and they get done within a couple hours.
I'm not saying OpenFiler is the be all end all to NAS needs, I was simply making a suggestion, and it works perfectly for my needs, I have 100% control of the hardware used, if I want to sling in a huge software raid0, no problem, and the kernel supports most popular hardware raid cards. But if it's been years since you last looked at it, it has defiantly come a long way and might be worth another look.
I personally don't use Samba for anything, like your cleaning lady, I don't do Windows, but I've at least tested it and seems to work fine. LDAP is supported as well as NT4 and Active Directory for authentication. I have 4 boxes setup using LDAP and backup 300 servers between them and I simply never have to do anything except define new shares when I need one.
Now maybe if all of us /.'ers put our money together we can stop this evil force...
I donate to EFF whenever possible, they seem to be the most in-line with my thoughts and feelings on most of the issues they raise. I do believe they offer a monthly subscription as well.
In the US the phone lines are consistently referred to as "the public network" in FCC rules and regulations. I owned an ISP in Michigan and yes the telcos did squeeze out the small guys. SBC offered to sell me DSL lines at 37.99 per month when they were selling them at 39.99 per month. For that measly 2.00 per month per customer I was expected to provide tech support, billing and collection services and accept all of the bad debt risk. At that point I decided to get out of the ISP business and concentrate of other things. Pity that one large company can put 6,000 small ISPs out of business when their infrastructure was given to them by the people (think of the right of way behind you house that they use for nothing.
I too was a fairly large ISP in St Louis, and was squeezed out by SBC, but didn't go away without a small fight.I really wish you didn't post AC, but that is your choice, at least I can respond instead of use mod points now.
Also in that fantastic $2/mo gross profit you got the privilege of paying $3,200/mo for a DS3 into the SBC ATM cloud, and then also had to provide transit to your customer. I never chose to provide DSL and sold the company at a fire sale after failing. But I learned alot over that 90's on how not to do stuff, and little by little I've scratched back just providing web hosting that I can now earn a modest living, but I'm sure my days are numbered in this market as well, can't allow the little guy to earn a living doing their own thing when some big corporate entity could much better use those profits for their shareholders, why on earth would I think I deserve to put food on the table and a roof over my head.
There, now you can be a geek too. Heck, I even installed it on my EEE
sudo apt-get install wine
The only feed I enjoy that has not already been listed previously is
EFF Updates which is EFF Press Releases
The Right to Travel
The doctrine of the "right to travel" actually encompasses three separate rights, of which two have been notable for the uncertainty of their textual support. The first is the right of a citizen to move freely between states, a right venerable for its longevity, but still lacking a clear doctrinal basis.1858 The second, expressly addressed by the first sentence of Article IV, provides a citizen of one State who is temporarily visiting another state the "Privileges and Immunities" of a citizen of the latter state.1859 The third is the right of a new arrival to a state, who establishes citizenship in that state, to enjoy the same rights and benefits as other state citizens. This right is most often invoked in challenges to durational residency requirements, which require that persons reside in a state for a specified period of time before taking advantage of the benefits of that state's citizenship.
Maybe you misunderstood me, I am all for nationalizing the last mile. Be it locally, by county, state, or federally. Locally and by county would probably be bad as too many city/county councils are controlled by the ILEC anyway, and and federally would also be bad as they seem to have a way of not being able to do anything right to start with.
I'm pretty sure I understood the article to say per violation to mean $2,500 * xxx customers, that can get quite expensive quickly.
And why doesn't it make sense that the pipes/wires/drainage belong to the people instead and then the service providers can all lease that from some management authority to gain access to the last mile and provide everyone service?
I recently compared a Dell dual quad opteron and a like Dell dual quad Xeon, and wound up buying a few Tyan barebone dual quad's with adaptec raid cards and double the ram and still saved a couple bucks over anything Dell could do for me. And since Dell was right there in line like a good puppy to the Intel overlords, I've avoided their products since the P3.
I have always felt AMD has been beat down unfairly, and other than the K6 stuff, have always bought their products since the 386's
How was AT&T broken up in any way that made sense?
Had AT&T been broken up by service layer instead of service area, we might actually have good telecommunications and true competition in the US
IE Tab is not available for Linux.
While I love my eee, and yes, still using the Xandros that it came with as everything just works. I tried 5 other distro's and all had some little difference or another where stuff needed more tweaking. But I personally would prefer Fedora on it, and eeeDora needs alot of tweaking still, so since once you enable the advanced desktop you have KDE, it's really moot to me as I just use it as a display then. I would buy a Dell if it wasn't for the fact it only comes with Ubuntu, but there is alot to be said for everything just working if the manufacturer took the time to do all the tweaking, and Asus has done just that.
I've had most of these features with SageTV for well over a year, infact I ditched Tivo for Sage over 4 years ago.
are there any other registrars that are not "evil"? I have reseller accounts with Enom and ResellerOne (Directi) and I rarely use Enom other than to maintain domains previously registered there as transferring registrars is a major PITA.
I've had to use ResellerOne support a couple of times over the past and I must say their support is fantastic, you get a knowledgeable person who picks up the phone at odd hours of the day. My only beef about ResellerOne is their API, I cannot do everything through it I would want to with my billing software and I do not want my customers seeing their interface, even though I have it customized with my information on it, I do not want them to even see it as they offer hosting as well, and it is a far cry from good hosting for what my customer would be looking for. They are an Indian company, so US law will have no effect, and I think most/all of their datacenters are outside of the US as well.
At least they are seeing this as an issue. Shocking that the most desirable candidates do not fancy running 3 miles with packs. That does not seem as entertaining with a wealth of other job prospects. What 3 miles? I seem to recall my time at Lackland AFB and we worked our way upto 1.5 miles over a 6 week period, then in my 3+ years at Wheeler AFB on Oahu, I ran 1.5 miles once a year. I didn't want to join the military, so I joined the Air Force, just another job, everyone just happens to wear green. I guess it's BDU's now though, my time was in the early 80's.
I'd just like a few of those unlimited hard drives they are using
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
If true, that is by far one of the most alarming statistics I have ever read. If large cooperations marketing has succeeded to the point that there are 10 million people that will not buy a company's product regardless of its technical merits and price point, we've reached a truly low point in society. Ummm, betamax, 8-track tapes
My personal belief is that trading with countries will have and end positive result as the population eventually will see their Government for what it is and change will occur. I don't care how oppressive a government is, if you have 1,000,000,000+ people of your population rising against you, you'll be running for the exit while your head is still upon your shoulders.