Serve-U server setup/HDD controller questions

[holli4pirating]

I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver. However, I don't want people accessing the data to be able to get at the boot drive, so I want to confine them to one area. (Note, I'm going to use Serve-U, so if anyone knows any way to allow access to more than one place without giving complete freedom, let me know.) I thought that JBOD might be good for this. If not, please make suggestions. I don't want to use up space for redundancy nor risk losing everything if a drive fails.

I'm going to be running an ASUS PC-DL, which has onboard raid for two sata and 2 ide devices. That, however, won't be enough. Is it possible to add in a controller card and then that and the onboard controller to form one JBOD?

I'm looking for an inexpensive solution, since it's somewhat a budget server.

 

[drizzt81]

I'm in the process of setting up a fileserver. However, I don't want people accessing the data to be able to get at the boot drive, so I want to confine them to one area. (Note, I'm going to use Serve-U, so if anyone knows any way to allow access to more than one place without giving complete freedom, let me know.)

Serv-U is certainly capable of locking users into a directory, a sub-tree or a volume. If there is a security flaw with Serv-U that allows people to circumvent this, you could try running it as a certain account that does not (explicity denied via NTFS) have access to your boot drive, provided that Serv-U will be installed on a separate drive. If nothing else, it should make it more difficult, since the server process itself won't be priviledged.

I thought that JBOD might be good for this. If not, please make suggestions. I don't want to use up space for redundancy nor risk losing everything if a drive fails.

I don't see how your HDD setup affects your FTP server, but yeat, JBOD or using subfolders to link drives should work fine. I also heard rumors that Serv-U supports softlinks via a txt file...

I'm going to be running an ASUS PC-DL, which has onboard raid for two sata and 2 ide devices. That, however, won't be enough. Is it possible to add in a controller card and then that and the onboard controller to form one JBOD?

yes, although you may have to do that in windows using dynamic disks. You know that you can have drives mapped to a certain folder in WinXP without having to use dynamic disks, don't you? I have heard some bad stories (and some good stories) about dynamic disks.

I'm looking for an inexpensive solution, since it's somewhat a budget server.

You do know that the personal version of Serv-U has quite a limited number of features when compared to the purchased option. I can recommend guildFTPd as a free alternative if you do not wish to use warez, of course, then there is your alias...