Network Attached Storage
Remember NAS, Network Attached Storage ? A NAS server is in reality is nothing more than than a small server that is optimized for file sharing, and doesn't have the other services that 'normal' servers have. Example; NAS does not, can not and will not offer email yet simply is a quick to-set-up device that allows you to easily add storage capacity to your network. With that in mind the Snap Server 1100 does just one thing file sharing but does it very well as you have options, a lot of them! All general accepted and wide spread network File and Transport protocols are supported, keywords here are Win NT4, 2000/XP, NetWare 3.12, AppleShare 6.0, and NFS 3.0 servers. Client types also supported are Microsoft Windows (Win95 & upwards), Novell NetWare, MacOS System 7.5.5 and up, Unix (Sun Solaris 7 and 8; SCO Openserver 5.0.5; AIX 4.3; HP-UX 11 and Linux. If that still isn't enough for you, you also have read-only access via HTTP (web browser), and full read/write access via a built in FTP server. Not that bad huh ?
Since most of you and yours truly work on an Windows XP platform we are going to focus on this OS purely.
Installation
Really simple stuff. Remember we are doing this with Windows XP, I'm not a Linux man (the developer will probably like to gut me now for saying that). The one think you need to be sure of when you sell a product like this is to make sure it works quick and easy. And although it's not for everyone I had to say that installation is quick and easy. First off let me tell you a bit about the office here.
We have 6 PC's on a 100 Mbit/sec Local Area Network connected though a 24 port switch which has an uplink towards a router that shares the Internet. Now the SnapServer 1100 will be the 7th 'pc' connected on that switch. So once you have connected it to the switch and powered up the device you need to do a one time software configuration from one of the PC's.
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