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Linux as a NAS solution?

All,

I am most familiar with Solaris, and I am in the process of learning Linux (Fedora 5), and one of my tasks is to replace our current NAS solution. We currently use EMC Celerra, but it is way too expensive for what we use it for. So I have looked into Linux.

We mostly we have a Windows world here and they need access to a UNIX system because our main system (similar to SAP) has a Windows front end but a Unix back end, and they also sends print jobs to the Unix box. I thought about Samba as a replacement but I need to set a limit on the directory size for each user.

We do use Active Directory here, not sure if that helps but I figured I would throw it out there. Also, most people use it as a 'home' directory. I need to set limits per person (per home dir).

If this is confusing, please ask and I will try to explain more.

Thanks!

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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)