The best OS for the job is the one you are best able to support. Personally, I'm a fan of Apple OS X server. Currently no other samba based file server comes close to the reliablity and ease of use when it comes to integrating with directory services (specifically Active Drectory). $999 for unlimited clients isn't bad. If you're just looing for Windows, the best option is most likely going to be Windows Server 2003 R2. I haven( had a chance to try server 2008 yet. Downside is the licensing could kill you, but if you're dealing with exchange or other windows servers you will need the licensing anyway. In the free world, find something you're cofrtable with. Package managment is a plus for time crunched admins. Ubuntu LTS and Debian Stable should get you security updates that won't break your conigurations. RedHat and sometimes SuSE hane the best spport from hw vendors. Andrew Zbikowski Sry bout d spln, snt frm my mobl fone. http://andy.zibnet.us http://www.itouthouse.com -----Original Message----- From: "Eric F Crist" <ecrist at secure-computing.net> To: auditodd at comcast.net Cc: "TCLUG List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: 3/11/2008 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Server OS' From what I've been able to tell, FreeNAS is just FreeBSD with a bunch of file-server specific ports pre-installed. As such, it's not doing anything funky with the hard drives - plain old UFS2. Eric On Mar 11, 2008, at 8:31 AM, auditodd at comcast.net wrote: > I used to use FreeNAS... > Then I just bought a 500GB drive for my Linux machine and I use that > and Samba for network storage since that machine is on all the time > anyway. > > Funny thing about FeeNAS... > Every single hard drive that I have used for the OS over the last > few years works fine for the FeeNAS OS, but as soon as I try to wipe > the drive to reuse it I get a report that there are errors on the > drive. Now it might be possible that the drives actually did go bad, > but 4 different times? Sounds a little suspicious to me. > > Just my $0.02, but I won't recommend FreeNAS to anyone. > > -- > ========== > Todd Young > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> >> I'd second what Sunny and Isaac said. Ubuntu is what I know best >> from other >> applications, so it's probably what I'd use for this too, >> especially with >> the upcoming LTS release. That said, I have heard good things >> about FreeNAS >> especially, so it could be worth looking into as well. >> -- >> Tony Yarusso >> http://tonyyarusso.com/ > > > > From: "Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> > Date: March 10, 2008 5:54:46 PM CDT > To: "TCLUG List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Server OS' > > > I'd second what Sunny and Isaac said. Ubuntu is what I know best > from other applications, so it's probably what I'd use for this too, > especially with the upcoming LTS release. That said, I have heard > good things about FreeNAS especially, so it could be worth looking > into as well. > -- > Tony Yarusso > http://tonyyarusso.com/ > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list