This is what worked out best for me. I bought a MAXTOR 200GB external hard drive and a linksys NSLU2 and now I can access it from my windoze & fedora core 2 boxes (using webmin smbfs ) without a problem. Raghu. On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:07:36 -0400, Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 09:36, Richard Emberson wrote: > > > Looking at a couple of them yesterday, they all have a > > windows configuration CD. Not having any Windows > > machines I felt better to ask here for solutions > > rather than buying into the unknown. > > > > So, what network storage devices work on a pure > > Fedora network? I'd like to get 200GB or more storage. > > The NAS devices I have worked with in the past used a web front end to > configure them. The windows configuration CD you mentioned might be > drives for windows systems to use the NAS device but typically for > windows machines NAS devices appear as windows shares (samba type > shares). Good NAS devices however should support NFS as well as windows > lan manager type file sharing. > > Check the ones you are looking at to determine if they can be setup just > using a browser. It they can and they support NFS then you can use them > no problem. If they only support Lan Manager type shares you can still > use them with Linux you will just need to configure samba on your > systems so you will have the permissions to access the NAS device. > > Another alternative is that you can purchase 200GB harddrives (or > larger) for not to much money. A couple of months back Compusa had a > sale going on for 250GB Maxtor drives for something like $150. Probably > a lot cheaper than a NAS device. You can just pop one in one of your > Linux boxes and use NFS to share it out. > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > The discerning person is always at a disadvantage. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
