This guide shows how you can install and run a Small Business Server with ClearOS 6.3.0 (Community Edition). With ClearOS, you can run various services (such as a file- and print server, a web proxy and content filter, a mail server, etc.) in your local network and manage them through an easy web interface. ClearOS provides apps for each of these tasks from its marketplace - many of them are free, some of them have to be paid for. ClearOS Community is open-source and free. There's also a professional version available for which you have to pay, but which in return provides better support, better tested apps and updates, etc.

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 11.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 13 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.

Prossimamente mi troverò a configurare un fileserver, che dovrà servire una cinquantina di directory condivise attraverso Samba. L’hardware scelto è un Lenovo ThinkCentre M58, con due dischi SATA da 500GiB: so che l’ideale sarebbe stato un vero controller RAID, ma i prezzi sono quelli che sono e questo passa il convento. Per quanto riguarda il sistema operativo, sarà Debian Lenny: non è ancora stata rilasciata come stable, ma per quanto mi riguarda lo è a sufficienza. Ho in mente una configurazione basata su RAID software (che mi dicono essere decisamente più stabile e performante rispetto a dmraid) e LVM, ma mi piacerebbe sentire qualche opinione da qualcuno più esperto di me, onde evitare di commettere errori banali.

This article shows how to run a file- and print-server for small and medium enterprises (SME) on one single Ubuntu 8.04 server. It is very easy to set up, and management is done with an easy-to-use web interface called eBox so once the system is set up, you can forget about the command line. eBox was developed to administrate advanced services for corporate networks.

This tutorial explains how to turn an old PC with additional hard disks into a simple home file server. The file server is intended for home use. The home file server is accessible by Windows and Linux computers in the home network.