Windows SBS

It turns out I didn't need to reformat after all.  I simply swapped the hard drives from one machine to the other, installed new drivers and the OS is working fine.

I'm currently tweaking the firewall and trying to get it so emails will start filtering through again.

I'm hoping to have it done before I get home from work today so I can reinstall Ubuntu Server LTS.  The plan is to install Ubuntu with Samba, LAMP, and a desktop for easy program management.  Once that's done I can begin installing the trial version of the Farm Manager and begin tweaking the interface for portal view.

New Servers - Test Runs

I thought I would end up having to wait a while to get back to work on my render farm because I didn't have the servers I needed.  Low and behold, 2 servers were donated to me by my family.

After scrounging some old disks for testing I now have 3 servers.
Right now, 2 of them are being used as test beds: 1 is now running a test run of NAS4Free for the family's internal backup/media server.  I have some problems copying files but I'm working on it (timeout and permission issues).  I am I am installing a test run of Ubuntu Server on the second new server.  If I can make this work with LAMP (webserver), Samba File Share, and Mail server, I will reformat my 2011 Windows SBS server and reinstall on it because it has 2x the memory and 2x the hard drive space for email storage.