[ale] off the shelf NAS for school with Linux, Mac and Windoz PCs

[Daniel Howard]

Yes that was my first choice too, but I'm looking for an off the shelf 
solution that even school IT folks who don't know anything about Linux 
can implement and manage later on.  Brian Pitts comment about different 
versions of NAS boxes supporting Active Directory is good for off the 
shelf solutions.

Best,
Daniel

Forsaken wrote:
> I'm sure a few folks have said this already, but you might want to
> consider just a straight linux solution. A barebones debian install
> customized to your needs will probably be a better long term solution
> in the case that your environment's needs evolve beyond the
> capabilities of the NAS appliance. I needed something similar a few
> months ago, and after looking at all the options, I finally said screw
> it, tossed a sata cage and a 3ware card into an old box I had sitting
> around and just built my NAS from the ground up. It's now happily file
> sharing with my windows boxes using AD authentication, my other linux
> boxes, and with AFP for my Macbook.
> 
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:41:54 -0400
> Daniel Howard <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for an off the shelf NAS device with gigabit Ethernet 
>> interface and embedded Linux/Samba that can be seen by all three OS's 
>> and found this 500 GB box from Buffalo at $158 from Newegg that 
>> apparently would do the trick:
> 

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Daniel Howard
President and CEO
Georgia Open Source Education Foundation