I just built a home file server from an E350 ITX board. I installed Zentyal 10.04, a distro mostly based on Ubuntu 10.04, with a web-ui on top. The network is gbit. I have 4GB of RAM. I have 3 drives ...

I've got a 486/66 running FreeBSD 4.3 as a DSL firewall/NAT box for my home network. When building it, I threw in a 20GB drive for some network storage. Once I got Samba up and running, I started a ...

It recently occurred to me that in the eight years or so I've been writing this column, I've never covered file servers. I've covered secure file transfer, for example, via scp, rsync and vsftpd, ...