what are disadvantages of broadband fixed IP address?

[TheFaQQer]

I was going to go for the Netgear/Infrant ready NAS or new PC I am building at the moment
(Intel 2.4Ghz Quad Core, 2GB Ram, 4*500 GB SATA II HDD, win xp Pro 32 bit)


Can this new pc operate as a server( Oracle 10g, SQL Sever, informatica , business objects, and a couple of VMWARE files) and at the same time serve as a NAS/RAID to other PC in the house? i would rather stick with the winXP pro

You can certainly run Oracle on it fine - I run full eBusiness Suite off my laptop on XP Pro - and serve as NAS. I have a much lower spec, 6 year old PC at home running Oracle 9i and 10g plus has a shared drive for NAS, which works fine. If I need access to it, I use log me in remotely to setup downloads etc. and to retrieve files.

[css_jay99]

You can certainly run Oracle on it fine - I run full eBusiness Suite off my laptop on XP Pro - and serve as NAS. I have a much lower spec, 6 year old PC at home running Oracle 9i and 10g plus has a shared drive for NAS, which works fine. If I need access to it, I use log me in remotely to setup downloads etc. and to retrieve files.

Nice one, I will pop into Tottenham court Road for a PC case and Fan to complete my install.

with regards to setting it up as a NAS(last pc build was era of pentium 2 slot/catridge cpu's :-

1) to setup as NAS, is this via the bios for the sata drives ? or after install of the OS on a single drive and then adding new drives and thinkering something?
2) I have not used win XP 64bit, do all my software have to be 64bit in order to work?
(a) i.e oracle products, business objects, informatica ( do i need to get the 64bit versions of these products or the standard ones will work just fine?)
(b) usuall home apps - nero, MS office, torrent software, adobe products.... do they have to be specifically 64bit?

cheers
css_jay99

[TheFaQQer]

Nice one, I will pop into Tottenham court Road for a PC case and Fan to complete my install.

with regards to setting it up as a NAS(last pc build was era of pentium 2 slot/catridge cpu's :-

1) to setup as NAS, is this via the bios for the sata drives ? or after install of the OS on a single drive and then adding new drives and thinkering something?
2) I have not used win XP 64bit, do all my software have to be 64bit in order to work?
(a) i.e oracle products, business objects, informatica ( do i need to get the 64bit versions of these products or the standard ones will work just fine?)
(b) usuall home apps - nero, MS office, torrent software, adobe products.... do they have to be specifically 64bit?

cheers
css_jay99

All I have for NAS is that I've made the drive shareable across the network, so everyone can see it. So, it's not true NAS since it needs the PC to be on all the time, but it does the job. No need for anything else.

I don't think that they need to be 64bit, but if you can get it, then it's better. For example, my last SUSE Linux install told me "you are trying to install 32 bit software on a 64 bit machine. Are you sure?" It would have worked, but the 64 bit ones are obviously designed to work better.

[Pondlife]

As said by Mr Fitz.

I use dyndns and my router will update it if my IP changes. Just use SSH for linux or Remote access for XP to access the machine after a bit of router config to open the ports.

[DaveB]

As said by Mr Fitz.

I use dyndns and my router will update it if my IP changes. Just use SSH for linux or Remote access for XP to access the machine after a bit of router config to open the ports.

Just make sure the XP box is locked up tight. Remote access is an easy way in if it's not configured right. You might want to limit your source IP addresses on the inbound connection to the router so that only the PC you use at the client site can get in, or at least only connection originatine from the client's address range rather than the whole internet.

[MrRobin]

I have thought about using a static IP or dyndns or other program to access files stored at home but the upload speed on my broadband is so slow that it would take too long to retrieve anything substantial in size. How much extra do broadband providers charge for an uplink as fast as downlink e.g. 8mb each way