How To Build A Low Cost SAN

In today's world there is a obvious need of information sharing in every department and network storage can help us to achieve this most growing challenge. Here in this article we are focusing our concentration to make a low-cost SAN.

Expanding A Root-FS

There might be the situation, that your root filesystem runs out of space, so it has to be expanded. With filesystems other than the root filesystem this could easily be done for instance with gparted. With the root filesystem this is not possible, as gparted could only expand filesystems that are not mounted, which is impossible with the root filesystem. The only way to enlarge the root filesystem is to boot from a kind of rescuesystem, Live-CD or the like, and then to expand the root filesystem. The following tutorial describes, how this is achieved by using Systemrescue-CD.

Using eBox As Windows Primary Domain Controller

eBox Platform is an open source small business server that allows you to manage all your services like firewall, DHCP, DNS, VPN, proxy, IDS, mail, file and printer sharing, VoIP, IM and much more. These functionalities are tightly integrated, automating most tasks, avoiding mistakes and saving time for system administrators. This tutorial shows you step by step how to use eBox as Windows Primary Domain Controller. At the end of it you will be using eBox Platform 1.2 for users and shared resources management on your Windows domain.

Low Cost SAN

The objective of this document is to provide making of Low Cost SAN using FOSS tools.

CentOS 5.x Samba Domain Controller With LDAP Backend

This will show you how to set up a Samba Domain Controller with a local LDAP backend, using CentOS 5.x (tested on 5.3, still successfully running on 5.4).  Includes a web-interface for managing LDAP users/groups/etc.

January 2010 -- Now with support for Windows 7 domain logins (see end of guide).

Fedora 11 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 11 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

Mandriva 2009.1 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Mandriva 2009.1 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (CentOS 5.3)

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (CentOS 5.3). The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (CentOS 5.3)

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running CentOS 5.3 system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny)

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Debian Lenny). The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).