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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: John Sequeira on August 03, 2001, 09:59:18 PM
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I have a very modest box serving as my e-smith gateway (133MHz - 48M/6GHD). I've had a great experience with it so far, and I'd like to use the -bays a lot more and up the storage capacity. The server is really a desktop machine with limited room for expansion inside. I was considering getting a firewire adapter, and stacking some firewire/IDE enclosures on top, but the box is maxed out on PCI slots.
What I would like to do instead is use my W2K workstation to host the firewire card and external hard drives, then serve up the excess capacity via the e-smith web and ftp servers to the outside word.
If I got the addition storage online up and running on the workstation, is there any problem using something like smbmount to extend my i-bay storage capacity?
Is there a more elegant way to do this that's cheaper than NAS? (using network storage virtualization, maybe?)
JS
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Hi,
have the same "problem". at the moment we have 5 e-smith boxes and two failover server (simple linux server with heartbeat running) for the storage. the e-smith server mount the shares for www, ftp via nfs. after gigabit ethernetcards getting cheaper and cheaper i replaced the 100mbit cards.
it´s running without problems and without speed lost for 4 month.
greetings
ludmilla