Spock passes into the abyss.

Turns out that the unix extended ACLs control the access to the samba share in Openfiler (and in ldap setups) and that ZFS on linux does not have them turned on by default. I also had to replicate the ACL setup from the shares in Openfiler to the new host using getfacl and setfaclAfter restarting the smb service, I was able to access the share. For ( Read more... )

A little background is in order. Several years ago I set up a CentOS 5 LDAP server and two virtual machines running Openfiler 2.99. Since then the Openfiler project has gone more or less defunct and hasn't seen any significant activity in over a year. The two Openfiler machines rely on the CentOS LDAP server for authentication ( Read more... )

Since last summer I have been steadily working on rebuilding my lab while attempting some semblance of power efficiency.
While I would have loved to have built the storage server NAS Brian Moses did it's definitely out of my budget.

So what am I cobbling together instead?
Primary Storage Node - Media files, etc ( Read more... )

M R Ducks
M R Not
M R Too
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The biggest threat to real maple syrup yet.

Been working on setting up my new Openfiler 2.99 VMs on top of the nice new 2TB hard drives I picked up and had some interesting results trying to get everything set up ( Read more... )

Yes, the title is a mouthful, but I figured I ought to write my pre-purchase findings for once.

I am in the process of rebuilding my VMWare box with a RAID 5 set using 2TB Drives off of an HP P400 Controller I picked up off of ebay a while back. (Side note on the p400 - Upgrade to the version 7.22 firmware or later is highly recommended. A ( Read more... )

From the motherboard perspective

MB PIN SIGNALVGA PINVGA SIGNAL

1RED1RED

2GND6RGND

3GND7GGND

4GREEN2GREEN

5GND5GND

6SDA12SDA

7BLUE3BLUE

8GND8BGND

9HSYNC13HSYNC

10GND10SGND

11GND

12VSYNC14VSYNC

13GND

14GND

15SCL15SCL

From the VGA end

VGA PINVGA SIGNALMB PINMB SIGNAL

1RED1RED

2GREEN4GREEN

3BLUE7BLUE

4RES

5GND5GND

6RGND2 ( Read more... )

Turns out the bloody thing supports USB keyboard and mice out of the box. All that work for nothing I guess ( Read more... )