Detailed Test Linux competition Microsoft Home Server

When I started looking at Microsoft's Windows Home Server (Windows House SERVER,WHS), I was disappointed to find that this "revolutionary" WHS was not as advertised.

　　

As a common file server for families, there is nothing wrong with it. After all, it's nice that more and more families already have multiple computers and digital music, photos and movies that are as much as gigabytes in size, and can have an Easy-to-use file server in their home. But the question is, why should I pay extra for it?

Because, there are many computer equipment manufacturers have introduced a variety of external storage devices, these devices have WHS have every function. In this case, Microsoft also wants to allow users to pay for each set of WHS system 199 dollars in authorized use costs. As you can see, almost every external storage device and network attached storage device (NAS) is equipped with powerful Linux systems and samba software, and they sell at 0 dollars.

Further, you may not even have to pay to buy a commercial external storage device, or a more expensive Microsoft WHS device, but to use the powerful Linux system and samba software to turn your old, unused home PC computer into a powerful file server. Oh, yes, besides, you can also turn it into a router, a home gateway, a firewall ... And these features are not available from Microsoft's expensive WHS.

By the year 2007, anyone, I mean anyone, can use Linux and samba to make a single PC computer a simple file server. You only need to use Google to search the Internet, you can find a lot of this tutorial. Some of these tutorials are so easy to understand that you don't even have to modify the settings file or use the command tool line.

Source: IT168 Author: Follow the Wind Zebian: Bean technology Application