NAS (Really easy question, but only if you know the answer)

[The Real MD]

Team,

I am looking in to NAS as an option for flexible storage. is it true that if I set up a share on the NAS server, I can access the data from a windows PC as a mapped drive or any flavour of unix using samba or NFS

any pointers to useful documentation would certaily benefit from 10 points

Many Thanks

Martin.

[Sunil Sharma_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes it is true that Storage resources of NAS can be accessed via NFS and Share on windows machine.

Sunil

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Hi,

some more info available hear

http://www.sun.com/storage/white-papers/nas.html

Sunil

[Mark Grant]

A NAS server is just a machine with the same protocols as your own PC :)

Therefore you can definately use samba/NFS/CIFS whetever. It wouldn't really be network storage if you couldn't!

[The Real MD]

Some good points there and thanks for the link, its very useful.



Martin