Re: OT: Yet Another Unhappy Customer for Vista

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:28:53 +0000, Joerg wrote:
Lionel wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:25:02 -0700, Joerg

Considering the number of people who run small networks at home I was
thinking there'd be enough of a market for backup and file sharing
across a LAN or WLAN. It doesn't have to be industrial strength, for
example it would be ok if the whole thing quits upon a power supply
failure as long as that doesn't take the data with it.

If you've got a spare PC (doesn't have to be fancy, but preferably
solid & reliable), you can throw some big hard disks into it & install
SME-server on it: <http://www.smeserver.org/> The software's free, it
does RAID on standard disks, it's very well maintained, sets up from a
single bootable CDROM & is managed from a web interface.
I've been using it here for about 6 years, & recommend it to people all
the time.

I might just have to go that route if I don't find something off the
shelf soon. But from looking at the web site this stuff seems to be for
Linux experts. Which I am not :-(

You don't have to be much of an "expert" to get a server going, at least
for me with Slackware it was a breeze. Everything you need gets installed
by default, and you can opt out of stuff like emacs and other stuff you'll
never need on a server. All you have to do is put the pertinent
information into the config files, and you get that from the HOWTOs and
the comments in the config file itself.

But, if you want something off-the-shelf, plug-and-play, you'll probably
have to keep shopping. :-)

Good Luck!
Rich

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