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With the upgrade to SAMBA 4 and pulling my hair out trying to get that to work, Security Breach recommended NFS. I read the Arch Wiki on NFS, wow, pretty easy. Yeah, for everyone but me. I hate following the wiki and stuff not working. I have tried numerous things on the /etc/exports file to get this to work but I get the same thing EVERY TIME when trying to mount it on the laptop: mount.nfs4: Host is down My current etc/exports currently looks like this: # /etc/exports # # List of directories exported to NFS clients. See exports(5). # Use exportfs -arv to reread. # # Example for NFSv2 and NFSv3: # /srv/home hostname1(rw,sync) hostname2(ro,sync) # # Example for NFSv4: /srv/nfs4 192.168.0.104/24(rw,sync,fsid=0) /srv/nfs4/storage 192.168.0.104/24(rw,sync,nohide) # Using Kerberos and integrity checking: # /srv/nfs4 gss/krb5i(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt) # /srv/nfs4/home gss/krb5i(rw,sync,nohide) # Something to note. The server share is sdb1 the 2nd hard drive on the server. It's mounted to /mnt/storage. It has been mounted to the actual target share /srv/nfs4/storage via the mount command: # mount --bind /mnt/storage /srv/nfs4/storage I have added both to my fstab and checked to make sure that sdb mounts and the target share mounts with a reboot of the server. I have also started and enabled both rpc-idmapd.service and rpc-mountd.service. And I have used exportfs -ra when ever I made a change to /etc/exports.

I just got a package from Newegg I've been waiting a long time for. Not that they took a long time to ship, but that it took me a long time to pull the trigger and send them the PayPal payments. Waiting patiently paid off, I was able to grab these items individually over a three month period for ~ 65% of retail. Still, it was ~$600. Here's what it contained. 4 @ Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s For NAS systems http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822236344 1 @ Sans Digital 4 Bay eSATA Port Multiplier JBOD Tower Storage Enclosure TR4M+BNC SATA 150 & 300 4 x Hot-Swappable 3.5" Drive Bays JBOD (Hard drives are accessed individually) eSATA (via Port Multiplier) OS Supported Supports PC, Linux and MAC OS, including Windows 7 and Snow Leopard http://www.newegg.co...N82E16816111177 1 @ HighPoint RocketHybrid 1222 PCI-Express 2.0 x1 Low Profile Ready SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card 2 x eSATA III External Connectors Up to 6Gb/s http://www.newegg.co...N82E16816115098 I want to set this up as a home file storage/backup server. Probably attached to my main desktop running ArchLinux. No Windows sharing is necessary, but I would like to be able to access it from outside the network from my ArchLinux laptop or Android tablet. What advice do you have? What RAID levels would you suggest? What filesystem? What should I read about? I've been reading like crazy about a lot of things, but.....choices, choices. WOW! Thanks for your suggestions.