Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful responses. Especially to Tony, I found the Addonics NAS model for sale on amazon UK for a reasonable price which specifies Samba compatibility in the product description. If I am unable to get good speeds using the netbook and NFS then I will most likely give it a go.
In response to Markie's question I tested the access speed of the drive on the netbook using dd and managed to get a speed of 16.6MB/s on a transfer of 100MB test data, which is slow-ish but acceptable for a netbook and would have been sufficient for what I wanted to do. I am pretty sure that the problem is with the network, and I will try a few more diagnostics. Thanks again, Tommy On 5 March 2010 22:31, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: > A NAS is a Network Attached Storage, i.e. it is attached to your > Network, not to your PC. If your PC is attached to the same network, > then you can access it via samba from your Ubuntu PC. > > I also had a NAS, which I originally set up under Windows XP, I thnk it > had to be configured via a web interface, which was on a computer > running XP (or was it a special piece of software I installed, I cannot > recall now), back in the days before I ever even had heard of Ubuntu. It > was a Linksys NSLU2. > > It has 2 USB ports, which both had hard drives attached to them via IDE > to USB adapters. Both were formatted, by the NAS, using ext2 or ext3. > > But in more recent times, one of the hard drives died and I can no > longer get the data off it, having tried everything I could think of. > > But so long as you can attach hard drives to the NAS, then it is a > useful device for having extra storage space on your network, if you do > not want to attach the drives to your PC or have more than 1 PC > accessing the same files. > > Although file transfers via the ethernet are slow compared to having the > drive directly plugged into the PC. > > And I think that most NAS drives run a modified Linux OS inside them, so > if you can hack into it you can add more functionality. I have heard of > people using them for print servers. > > They seem to be very cheap now, so go for one that has enough USB ports > and can be configured via a web interface. > > David King > > > > Tommy Pyatt wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've been trying to use my old Eee PC 701 as a server on my home > > network for data on a 1TB external USB hard drive, however for some > > reason files are being transferred painfully slow to my desktop via > > samba. I am considering giving NFS a go to see if I can achieve faster > > transfers, but I also remembered seeing a NAS adapter for USB storage > > a while back. > > > > Here's an example of which, from MicroDirect > > > http://www.microdirect.co.uk/home/product/38589/Single-Port-USB-NAS-Adapter > > > > The spec mentions that this product (as do many other NAS-USB > > adapters) 'only supports XP or Vista'. Does anyone have any experience > > on using these sort of things on Ubuntu? Specifically I wanted to know > > whether I will be able to use samba to access the share that it > > creates and how the speed will compare to using NFS on my old netbook. > > > > I am using Karmic on my desktop and Karmic NBR on the netbook. Any > > response would be greatly appreciated, thanks, > > > > Tommy > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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