[H-GEN] modifying the hardware setup

[Ewan Edwards]

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Good morning Sandra,

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:01, Sandra Milne wrote:
> just a quick query to clarify things so i don't screw them up.
> if i wanted to install a 2nd hard drive to use it as a fileserver, would it
> be wiser to move /home to it and make some generic directories under that
> to share, or to mount the drive as something completely different under the
> root directory? Ideally I want to run public samba shares and an intranet
> website on it.

I usually mount extra drive partition(s) under /opt or under /mnt.  The only 
time anything is mounted any where in /home is when an individual user is 
wanting control over access to a remote Windoze or Samba share.  In such 
cases the share is mounted on a sub-directory in the user's home directory 
where she/he can use smbmount.

I think this whole issue is just a matter of preference.  I believe it to be 
easier to manage the way I do it.  I'm quite sure others will have differing 
opinions.

>
> Also, has anyone ever installed norton ghost (or a free program that does
> same if one exists) to a samba share and used it to do multicasting? We do
> this at work with our netware servers (minus the multicasting) and it is
> great.

Not real sure what you're getting at here. :-(  
I have Ghost (Enterprise edition) installed on a Win2k server that has enough 
disc space to hold a goodly number of images.  

If you're talking about doing something similar only with the images stored on 
a remote Samba share, then I think you'll run into network congestion 
problems unless you have two NICs in the Ghost (or equivalent) server.  

Think about what would be happening if you're trying to read a stream of data 
from a network share and then multicast it at the same time.

Apologies if I've misunderstood what you're asking.

Regards,
Ewan

P.S.
I'm also realy interested in finding out about any open source or Linux based 
utilities to do the same thing as Ghost.  I have heard there is something 
available thats basically just a collection of shell scripts.  Unfortunately, 
I've never found or seen it.



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