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 [...]

Fileserver, part 1

January 24th, 2010  ()  hardware › illotus › No Comments

I have this AMD 4850e/4GB non-ECC RAM/2,6TB/WS2008 serving files and other needs around the apartment. No RAID, no formal backups etc. Some of the more important stuff is on couple of disks and in the cloud etc. At first I intented to buy only 2 more hard drives, adding maybe 2-3TB. Then I got this [...]