On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > 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 > At the same time the IT department should be providing the proper tools needed to get the job done. If they are not there is a failure at some level (perhaps the budget) but a competent IT department should still be informing you why they can't. You can limit what IP address ranges can connect to Samba and NFS shares, or just use IP Tables rules that block access except for the IP addresses allowed to access the box. A better option than hiding would be to come up with your own low cost solutions and run them by IT for approval. For example: A 4TB Drobo + a DroboShare could be had for around $1,500, and you still can put another 4TB Drobo on it. (http://www.drobo.com). A cheap PC running Linux loaded up with disks could probally be had for a similar price point. When asked to thank outside the box, remember that "the box" is inside of a larger box called "the budget." -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080915/94f3bc6e/attachment.htm