08-21-2010
Linux NAS HowTo suggestions?
Hello -
I'm looking for a VPN/NAS howto guide or solution that you can recommend. I've looked at FreeNAS, and am considering it, but not sure it does everything I need.
Scenario: We are looking to build a NAS in our office from a linux machine on a limited budget.
Our office is behind a router with NAT from a single IP that is also a NAT address.
ie - public IP is 2 routers away, one I control, the other I don't.
These are our primary requirements.
1) VPN from home(anywhere) into office to access office folders.
2) SSH from home(anywhere) to access the machine.
3) Allow SSH/RSYNC backups from other servers (remote webserver backups)
4) RAID with mirroring at a minimum (RAID 1 or RAID 1+0 or RAID 5+1)
5) Firewalled to allow only SFTP, RSYNC, SSH, VPN and SAMBA access
Is this just a matter of installing my favorite linux distro, and installing/configuring the proper software (SSH, RAID, SAMBA, IPTABLES, etc)?
Or is a complete solution like FreeNAS the way to go?
Thanks,
Matt
PS my Linux admin skills are intermediate level, so I can figure out most things if I have a good direction of what to do.
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
checkrad
CHECKRAD(5) File Formats Manual CHECKRAD(5)
NAME
checkrad -- See if a user is (still) logged in on a certain port.
SYNOPSIS
checkrad [-d] nas-type nas-ip nas-port login session-id
DESCRIPTION
Checkrad is used by the radius server to check if its idea of a user logged in on a certain port/NAS is correct if a double login is
detected.
Returns: 0 = no duplicate, 1 = duplicate, >1 = error.
OPTIONS
-d Enable printing of debugging informations.
nas-type
Type of port/NAS. Can be one of:
o ascend
o bay
o cisco
o cisco_l2tp
o computone
o cvx
o digitro
o dot1x
o livingston
o max40xx
o mikrotik
o mikrotik_snmp
o multitech
o netserver
o other
o pathras
o patton
o portslave
o pr3000
o pr4000
o redback
o tc
o usrhiper
o versanet
The "other" type cause checkrad to skip any check and always returns 1.
nas-ip IP address of the NAS to check.
nas-port
The NAS port to check (may be ignored by some nas-type).
login The login name to check.
session-id
Session to check. (actually ignored by all nas-type)
SEE ALSO
radiusd(8)
AUTHOR
Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl.
This manual page was written by Marco Nenciarini <mnencia@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
13 January 2006 CHECKRAD(5)