Without knowing the administrative and political boundaries you may be attempting to cross you should carefully consider any advice at technical circumvention of their designs. That being said all you should need to do is turn one of the systems into a router by using additional NICs in on system and have it connected to all of the VLANs. Or if they have/allow/support VLAN tagging you could potentially do it all on the same nic though that may hinder network performance if you're trying to upload and download multiple files across the same NIC at the same time. Either this server could handle the storage itself or you could just use it as a router to bridge the VLANs together and put the storage server on the segment of your choice. You'd likely need to add static routes on each of the PCs that need access to this special storage server. Again, carefully consider what you are doing in a case like this and weigh any potential consequences. _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of G J Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 8:38 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [tclug-list] Hidden network storage I work for a college that has a a few video editing suites which are Macs and PCs, a production studio with a graphics generator and a Leightronix Nexus video server. The vid server has a large disk for storing video clips wich are uploaded either via some client software installed on a networked PC or I belive it has an ftp server as well. The delema we have is since video files are quite large 10-40 gigs a piece it would be nice to move these files to a central file server via the network. I generally wouldent have a prolbem doing this however the IT dept is less than coperative in providing us any solution at all. So I was wondering how I could set up a file server on the network without broadcasting it to the IT folks. I was starting down the path of building a vm on a large usb disk and hanging it off of one of our office pcs but the Macs, PC's and the video server are all on differnt VLANS, and thats where I hit the brick wall. Any suggestions? short of turning it into a sneakernet. Jesse _____ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. Learn Now <http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!5 50F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_getmore_092008> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080915/3b772035/attachment.htm