I have two 1TB Maxtor basic drives connected to my opensolaris box. On there I run a ZFS mirror. All working well, maybe not on mega speeds but fairly enough for home use (it does stream movies to my AppleTV with XBMC over smb) The downside I discovered later, is that they auto sleep after [...]
I found this article from Simon Wheatley and found it very nice to do. But it didn’t seem to work on OpenSolaris… but don’t worry, it just needs a small fix, don’t use port 0 for _device-info._tcp, but just give it a port you are already advertising.
I found some info on how to share your OpenSolaris Screen with vnc, and those manuals just didn’t do it for Mac Os X unless you use a vnc viewer. But I wanted to use the build in screen sharing build in to Mac Os X which support vnc but it didn’t seem to work.. [...]
My macbook pro suddenly refused to write dvd’s. Offcourse you think your dvd writer is dead, but reading cd and dvd’s worked just fine. The error I got was: The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media So I started to investigate and found out thanks to macosxhints forum it was [...]
Off-course you want to use timemachine now when you’ve set up your AFP server, I found everything whats needed in 3 easy steps on macosxhints.com. on your local mac in Terminal type the following command. hdiutil create -size $SIZE -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname “Backup of $HOSTNAME” -fs “Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+” -verbose ~/Desktop/$HOSTNAME_$MAC_ADDRESS.sparsebundle $SIZE = the maximum [...]
If your first question is ‘why not linux?’ is that I truly think Solaris is a better and more mature operating system. Solaris has native ZFS wich is still a major issue with the GNU part of linux. Solaris is also very ready for what you expect from a NAS and you can download it [...]
