DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

I have a couple of mini-ITX boards in drawers (EPIA CL1000) actually, but I don't want to bring them back to life as they are like a black hole: they eat my free time. I can live without firewall/IPS (I have dedicated router/firewall for this purpose), without HTTP (everything is at my ISP now), without mail server (everything at googleapps now). In fact all servers are now externalised. The only internal facility that I'm missing now is the Domain I used to have. I appreciated domain logins, scripts, among severals.

As I mentionned, one nice step would be to get swat to work. This would make user/group sharing more easy, and possibly make domain a reality (unless feature has been removed by dlink at compile time). Right now, the smb.conf I use is hand-modified. swat would be a big plus, even just for workgroup usage. Then comes LDAP server and the rest....

Cheers,
V.

fordem wrote:

why do people who need the whole kitchen sink buy this and then want to add the "missing" features, why don't they buy something that meets their needs.

You could claim I'm nuts: I have put thousands of dollars worth of my time into making the DNS323 do things like Kerberos, LDAP, and the like.... Obviously if my goal was simply to have a functioning server I would have been better off buying a server and hiring a sysadmin.

But for me personally, there's a larger issue at play: I make sort of a point of convincing low-end consumer-grade stuff to perform tasks that were recently considered to be the domain of special-purpose high-end stuff.   On the networking side, for example, my partners and I got a huge kick out of of setting up industrial-strength VPNs using US$300 boxes -- pretty recently this took US$40,000 worth of gear.

I think this kind of tinkering tends to accelerate the diffusion of advanced technology into the mainstream, which is, on the whole, a  good thing.  The experience also contributes to my value as a consultant -- I think it's important that we remain grounded: along with all of our fancy theoretical knowledge it's important to also have a few soldering iron burns on our fingers....

Hello Mig,

Thanks for your answer. I'm not willing to set-up a full debian on the DNS, as I would fallback to the scenario where I spend nights and days updating/fixing/playing/ .... that's why I would like an "almost out of the box" solution
On the files stored in flash, you are right. That's why I have a kind of chrooted environment: upon start, thanks to fun-plug, I restart samba using my own smb.conf. The idea would be then to have a minimal chrooted environment, with a decent smbd nmbd and swat. Maybe I'll set-up a cross-compile environment somedays, but if someone has one up-and-running maybe he could provide full binaries ?
Right now, I'm more busy wiring the new house (including painting and so on) than playing with the DNS......

Cheers,
Vincent.