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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:19:29 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@ohoyer.de>
To:        Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD + Dell PowerVault NAS
Message-ID:  <20040728231740.V30814@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
In-Reply-To: <BD2D2D49.C6C8%joe@jwebmedia.com>

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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Joseph Koenig wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has anyone used FreeBSD with a Dell PowerVault NAS (Windows-based)? We are
> considering moving some servers to a facility that uses PowerVault NAS
> machines with Windows to do backups. Is there any issue with this? I should
> be able to connect via NFS or SMB and just tar directly to the NAS machine,
> correct? Thanks,

Well, I've seen one of those providing NFS to a Solaris8 box, and it
worked so far.

IIRC there is the Windows Storage Server installed, which has Services
for Unix as NFS-Provider, rumors go that lots of that code had beed
derived from OpenBSD...

HTH
Olaf

-- 
Olaf Hoyer        ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net
Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten,
ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist.
(Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)


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