From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 3 21:07:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90BAB16A420 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:07:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cruzweb@gmail.com) Received: from core.toehost.com (ns1.toehost.com [63.247.91.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318B543D48 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:07:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cruzweb@gmail.com) Received: from c-68-61-214-252.hsd1.mi.comcast.net ([68.61.214.252] helo=[192.168.42.11]) by core.toehost.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FFHUM-0000A8-BP; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:07:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4408AFF6.5030502@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:07:02 -0500 From: John Cruz Organization: Cruz Web Development User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Huy Ton That References: <1cac28080603031300t4eda925o92f0da43fa0e8d8a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1cac28080603031300t4eda925o92f0da43fa0e8d8a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-scan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-scan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-scan-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-scan-MailScanner-From: cruzweb@gmail.com X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - core.toehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gmail.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fileserver with FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: john@cruzweb.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:07:18 -0000 Huy Ton That wrote: > I am curious if I setup a fileserver with freebsd, and let's say, I setup 4 > HDDs within the unit. Is it possible to have one network link if you will, > that will span over the 4 drives? Sort of like a clustered space? Is > something such as this at all possible? > > Could I additionally setup something such as this for a Windows environment > in conjunction with samba, sharity etc? > > Thank you in advance, > > Lee I don't see why not. You mount all the drives into your file system and then use Samba to share the directories across the network. I do something similar with my BSD server, it shares 2 drives across my home network. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.