You wouldn't even need to run cron to set permissions, since you would have to run Samba to do the sharing with Windows boxes and that will set the correct permissions for each share automatically (once you set them).

I had a hell of a time getting some stuff configured on Ubuntu 9.04 (mostly my RAID controller, which needed a driver compiled..ick), but if I hadn't needed support for GUID partitions, I would have just stuck with Windows XP as the OS, since Vista and W7 took ages to install and didn't actually run very well.



/signed. It works with Vista, and if all it's being used for is a sharing, you can use any OS. If he is familiar with Windows and it works with everything out of the box. There is no need to "switch to Linux." Sure Linux is more secure then Windows, but it is easier to use what you know then learn a completely different OS.

When I have permissions set in my samba share, and someone adds something to my drop-box folder, the owner on the new file is set to user:user and permission 700.
I usually have to recursively set owners and permission all the time so other people can use them again, so I have it set in cron to do it for me.

I don't use raid... no comment.

If he wants any kind of job in the future with computers, he's going to need to be familiar with linux. Since it's a simple server, I was thinking that would be a good starting point to learn something new.

Oh I see, that makes sense then, since it's another user uploading files. chown -R and chmod -R are handy.

As for learning linux. You don't really need a machine to do that, you can run VMware or VirtualBox and run it in a VM. Easier to deal with (plus snapshots for when you want to mess around with stuff)

This post was edited by MoonUnit on Nov 8 2009 09:37pm

I tried the vbox or 2nd partition way, but it didn't work for me because I didn't know what to use it for at the time. I had to force myself to use it by making it the only os on my desktop/laptop.
Just my 2cents.

Also for some reason my network drives timed out all the time when I was using ms products. I could have been doing something wrong, but who cares linux > for me.

Gotcha. That is indeed one way to learn. Crash course an all that.

OpenSolaris + ZFS + RAID-Z is the answer to shitty RAID controllers. 99% of all sub $500 RAID controllers are shitty and should be avoided like the plague.

edit: good god on-board "fake raid" controllers are even worse. fuck you intel.

This post was edited by rockonkenshin on Nov 9 2009 08:12am

Linux lovers...



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Stop hijacking my topic! Enough about Linux!

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edit: I was talking about OpenSolaris, which isn't Linux at all. Can I still talk about it?

This post was edited by rockonkenshin on Nov 9 2009 08:21am

I was going to go with the "fake raid" on the mobo, but ended up going with a PCIe card: 200 bucks but it was either that or one that was 400 bucks. =/

Erm, to stay on topic... nice server Pen.

This post was edited by MoonUnit on Nov 9 2009 08:25am

THANK YOU!