I've got 3 320gb Maxtor PATA drives and a machine to put them in. I actually installed everything and got the raid array created with mdadm in Ubuntu, but now that I'm dealing with Samba issues, I'm starting to wonder if it isn't a mistake. Are there any big negatives to using a Windows server and dynamic disks in raid 5 vs doing it in Linux? I'm sure I can eventually get through these Samba issues, but is it really worth it? My network is a couple of Windows XP machines and a Mac or two. My use for the array is mostly for media storage. TIA
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Linux vs Windows for software raid?
- Thread starter matt fury
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I've never had any issues with SAMBA. Then again, I use share level permissions, set everything to read/write, and chmod to deny access/write.
If that is all way want, then...
cd /etc/samba
mv smb.conf smb.conf.old
wget http://woods.us/smb.conf
nano smb.conf
(now change Terabyte to your prefered hostname, then ctrl+w and search for Terabyte, change the names and paths for the two open shares I have there, save)
/etc/init.d/smb restart
If that is all way want, then...
cd /etc/samba
mv smb.conf smb.conf.old
wget http://woods.us/smb.conf
nano smb.conf
(now change Terabyte to your prefered hostname, then ctrl+w and search for Terabyte, change the names and paths for the two open shares I have there, save)
/etc/init.d/smb restart