Fileserver, part 3, setting up ACL permissions

February 14th, 2010  ()  hardware, software › illotus › No Comments

Finally I have nearly everything moved to the new server. I’ve ended up using ACL for handling permissions for the CIFS shares. ACL isn’t too difficult to understand, but there aren’t too many resources on the net on it. Finding Daz’s “OpenSolaris cifs/smb server – configuring ACL’s on shares” article really helped. For example for [...]

Cloning a Running Windows 2008 Server to a Virtual Machine

February 9th, 2010  ()  hardware, software › illotus › No Comments

I’m ready to migrate my 1½ year old Windows 2008 installation to a virtual machine and finding out about the options run into Disk2vhd. It’s made by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft and what it does is snapshot of any drive to a VHD, virtual hard disk. The cool thing is that you can clone [...]

Fileserver, part 2 – taping raid card

February 6th, 2010  ()  hardware › illotus › No Comments

I have my server running now with the following hardware: Asus P7F-X motherboard Intel Xeon x3440 processor 4GB Kingston ECC DDR3 6 Western Digital 1,5TB drives, model nro WD15EARS 2 Samsung F3 500GB drives Dell SAS 5/i sata raid card Nexus Edge case The first problem I ran into was no boot, if the raid [...]