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CommentsNASLite is a diskette-based Linux OS that can convert any PC into a dedicated fileserver. With it, you could create a NAS box out of an old 486 machine with 16MB RAM, a diskette drive, one to four IDE hard drives, and a network card.
NASLite is available in various flavors that let you create a dedicated server via Server Message Block (SMB), Network File System (NFS), HTTP, or FTP. I'll show you how to set up NAS with SMB shares.
To begin, download and save the NASLite-SMB image on any Linux machine and open a command prompt. Insert a diskette in the diskette drive and issue the following commands:
# gunzip NASLite-SMB.img.gz
# fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
# dd if=NASLite-SMB.img of=/dev/fd0u1722
Connect all the hard drives you wish to server to the machine you wish to convert into a NAS box, and connect the machine to your network. Boot the machine with the diskette disk you just created. At the login prompt, log in with admin as the username and nas as the password. Use the option menu to configure the disks and the software for your NAS:
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NASLite-SMB Administration Utility
OPTION MENU
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1 - Change Network Settings
(192.168.1.1-255.255.255.)
2 - Change Name
3 - Change Workgroup
4 - Configure Storage Disks
5 - Change Password
6 - Change Date and Time
7 - Reboot
8 - Shutdown
9 - Save Configurations
C - Make NASLite Floppy
E - Exit
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SELECT >
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Select the fourth menu option to configure the disks for NAS, then select the Primary Master Drive from the list of drives. Go through the warning that appears, and then press Y, which deletes everything on the drive and formats it with an appropriate filesystem to support SMB shares. Follow the same procedure to configure and format the other connected drives.
Once you've configured the disks, select the first option from the menu and assign an available IP address within your network to your NAS box. Then select the third and fourth options to modify the name and the workgroup of your NAS box, respectively. Now choose the ninth option to save the configuration and reboot the machine. Your NAS box is now ready for use.
To access your NAS box from a Windows machine in your network, click the Run choice from the Start menu. Enter the IP address of your NAS box. Windows Explorer will display the network storage with pre-created network shares. You can also view the server configuration and the disk utilization by entering the IP address of your NAS box in a Web browser.
NASLite doesn't offer any provision for creating users and assigning quotas; anyone on the network can access the NAS box. However, despite its lack of security features, NASLite offers an easy and cost-effective way to implement a data warehouse on a network.
Rohit Girhotra is a 22-year-old engineering graduate from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) in New Delhi, India.
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* Low noise, be silent.
* No disk crash.
* Cheap price.
* Use little eletricity.
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To put it simply, it 'just works' right out of the box, something almost no full fledged LINUX distro I have experimented with over the years can say. No messy config scripts to mess with, no editing files, no googling all over the Net for info on how to set up this or that. Just boot the machine, enter very basic setup info and you're up and running. The ability to run 'headless' is fabulous, IMHO, and is certainly not an option of a traditional LINUX disto, as far as I know.
Another great feature is that NASLite can sit totally shielded behind your router, yet you can map drives on the NASLite to any other machine on your network, which lets you serve data from your NASLite to the internet on a different machine, yet keep the NASLite data protected from unauthorized access.
I've also taken a very hard look at FreeNAS, and while it does offer some additional features that NASLite, lacks, I have to concur that although the developer certainly deserves tremendous kudos for his efforts in creating, developing, and maintaining FeeNAS, it appears that his workload and backlog of 'issues' and 'requests' seems to far outstrip his resources, and assistance from others in the Open Source Community seems to be mininal at best.
I have plans underway for a much bigger server with SCSI RAID, CD & DVD subsystems,
and perhaps a thin client or two, none of which NASLite or FreeNAS can support. I've also looked at Clark Connect Home for this project.
In the end, I'll most likely wind up using SUSE or some other similar LINUX distro for the new server, and I can guarantee that I won't get it up and running in 1/1000th of the time it took to set up the NASLite box, which will sit in a corner in my computer room, humming along quite reliably, serving up to 5 different multimedia steams to 5 different computers without a single hiccup, while I gnash my teeth and pull at my hair trying to get the new server set up and configured using a full distro.
For what it supposed to do, a simple, easy to use NAS device, NASLite is hands down the best, and most cost effective solution I have ever found.
Thanks!
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