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Thread ID: 78819	2007-04-29 18:05:00	We Decided On Samba For A Server	SurferJoe46 (51)	Press F1

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545252	2007-04-29 18:05:00	Well . . . my son (and another guy called "D'weeze" who ate Twinkies and drank "Rockstar®" and wears really dark shades all night), come by and we (they) got my server pack all running with very little problems . I mostly stood by and watched fingers fly and empty cellophane wrappers and cans hit the floor . His name was mostly a sound, not a word and that's the best spelling I can make of it . :xmouth: Here's what I think they told me they did if I understand my writing this morning (I took sloppy notes)::stare: They set up two servers on SOYO Dragon Ultra Platinums SY333, Athlon XP 1 . 5's, 2gig RAM with 5 x 250GB drives each in a RAID-5 array (2TB total capacity), installed with Mepis using iSCSI + LVM to create a single large striped volume . The Mepis was my choice . . . not his . . . but I am sorta familiar with the UI in Mepis and feel more confident there . Both of those units are in a closet, cooled and protected in every way . They run some very small LCD screens if I turn them on to see and monitor what they are doing, or I can send/see the output at this desktop and make adjustments etc from here . . . as there are no keyboards one either of the closet twins . My desktop is the same mobo and processor, but I have 8 x 500GB drives with 2gig RAM and twin screens . This is running as a server using Samba . With a 1 gig flash router link between them, this gives an extremely fast redundant storage device with 2TB of space . I don't really understand the last part about the router, but it works . I am confused about packet handling and all . . he keeps on telling me it is just a faster way to stream . . . but I see blinking and flickering and assume it's a packet thing . Oh, well . I wonder if that's a provision in Samba to spool the data as I am seeing it . Who knows . . it works anyway . The speed is probably 'way over my needs, but my son says it will be necessary later on with the newer formats on dvd's etc . As of yet, I haven't got enough wire to finish the total installation until some sort of electronics shop opens on Monday, but what I can see, I like a lot . Even better, with the Linux Virtual Machine as the final layer I can add a third server later to my home theater library . . . . but right now I don't think it'll be necessary in my lifetime . I store in HD and standard . The only shortcoming so far is that I have to run this desktop to cue the videos and MP3's from here; I'll need another small 'puter in the living room to handle the library titles and stuff . . . but later on that part . . . . and NO . . . I am not gonna be the neighborhood server either!	SurferJoe46 (51)
545253	2007-04-29 20:20:00	Very :cool: :cool: Puts my server to shame (1 . 6 ghz, 512 mb ram, 180 gb hdd, Debian Sarge) . I haven't used samba; Filezilla and PuTTY work fine, also Sftp Drive shows Debian directories as windows folders; makes it easy .	jcr1 (893)
545254	2007-04-29 20:21:00	That's impressive SurferJoe - how much did that set you back $$ wise?	somebody (208)
545255	2007-04-29 20:53:00	Sounds like an awesome streaming media server, surferjoe. You'll be able to have a library of hi quality music, uncompressed DVDs, downloaded TV shows on there, as well as a few games. I would imagine that would have been fairly cheap to set up as well being Linux.	winmacguy (3367)
545256	2007-04-29 21:48:00	That's impressive SurferJoe - how much did that set you back $$ wise? There have been some awesome sales on harddrives here in Socal . . . they are $89 . 95 US minus a $50 . 00 mail-in rebate for 500gig each . That's where I got all the hdds . The 250's are now the same price . They are all Western Digital units . . maybe that means they are going out of business . The SOYOs are just something my son had lying around . . . he bought a pallet full of them when he got 75 Dell beige towers in an auction from a company that wanted to upgrade . We used Enermax cases and PSU's ( . st11 . yimg . com/us . st . yimg . com/I/directron_1945_66708876" target="_blank">us . st11 . yimg . com) . I run one of the original SOYO's that he got and built for me in an older Enermax case . I run a little o/c'ing on it . . . but not too much . I got a pair of 17 inch CRT monitors at a really REALLY super sale price from Wally-World (Wal-Mart) when they accidentally bought a truckload of something they don't usually sell themselves . They were $49 . 95US each . . . and the company that makes them warranties them as if they were regular priced . Cables, wiring and such are just bits and pieces . . . and I still need a few more to make it from the living room to here, about 20 more feet .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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