[XCSSA] What do I need to do this?

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On 4/27/06, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
>     I need an external HD box that my family can access via web browser over
> the net. Need to be able to connect it to my wired/wireless router.

To the router eh?  I suggest you look at NAS solutions then, because
that suggests you're going to be talking TCP/IP to the router.  Then
that device will have to speak SCSI, PATA, SATA, USB, or Firewire to
the drives themselves.

Linksys makes one, I forget the model number, that takes USB and
Firewire drives IIRC.

Avoid SAN, you'll see that when NAS is mentioned -- it's fiber channel
stuff for hard-core data storage facilities and not at all for end
users.

Have you looked at some of the online sites which do this?  For a fee,
they'll host your pictures forever.  That way, you don't have to worry
if that drive craps out, and often they'll make their money with
add-on services, like making you prints or slides on demand.

Of course another solution is a stand-alone computer inside the
router, with port 80 forwarded to it... and preferably on its own LAN
segment (the so-called DMZ).  This is cheap to set up if you have room
for it.  If you are okay with weaker security, just port-forward port
80 from the router to an internal machine running apache.
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