Firstly thanks for everyone thought on this. As i say, i am in new waters with this, so getting my head around it all will take to reading and re-reading.
For reference though, i intend to run a nano-itx system with a SATA drive. I have taken serious consideration to you suggestion of a multidisk setup, but i would like the smallest unit possible. It also means that noise and power usage wont be an issue. I know they dont draw much but i intend on living in a house that runs purely on solar panels in the near future. I also intend to run the OS off a Compact Flash Card / Secure Digital car or something similar, with the "/" directory on a 500 / 750 HDD. Then i suppose that i setup up my users from there ie "/home/user1" and "/home/user2" then i suppose its the job of the laptop OS to look at the file server for its files. Hmmm...there is still lots to think about, but i will keep this one brief for now and will reply again soon. The laptop itself (i am hopeing) will run Gentoo linux. The computer will run a flavour of Windows (sorry but its not mine, i have to, lol) Thanks again, and take care. G_N -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/File-Server-Advice-Required-tf1891201.html#a5183828 Sent from the openbsd user - misc forum at Nabble.com.
