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For server space rackmount I generally look at the HP DL360, DL380/385 series. For smaller less mission critical tasks then the ML110/ML115 tower models aren't too bad. They do however only have software RAID (is that an issue with Windows and Linux having support in the OS?), one PSU etc.. HP generally only seller via resellers. Some companies who resell HP kit (sure they have contact details via website) European Electronique, Kelway, Servo.

Reaper - I suspect you won't be able to do this. You could put the ACL on the Layer 3 VLAN Interface on the HP5406zl, butthat wouldn't stop any traffic within the VLAN/subnet (only stuff outside of that which needs to go via the default gateway). You might be able to do private VLAN's which involve only allowing hosts to talk to the default gateway (probably the edge switches would need to support this) - but this might break other stuff? I've seen some Enterasys switches that support Layer3-4 filtering @ Layer2 (but this an additional feature and the switches cost a bit more than your standard managed switch)

If the SnapServer 4400 is a Linux box (sounding like it with references to md0) Linux CD - and some mdadm --assemble might do the trick? (Gentoo Minimal CD usually has mdadm on it) Use fdisk -l against each should give you a clue as to what partition (e.g. /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1) - they should all be the same size and hopefully of type 'fd' Command will look something like mdadm --assemble /dev/md? /dev/sda? /dev/sdb? /dev/sdc? If one has failed you only need n-1 discs for RAID 5 to assemble (so if it's three disks then 2) I think you can use the word missing to replace on of the partitions

I think this thread has drifted a little off course... maybe a bit like the british weather right now! Gentoo is a completely different distribution to Ubuntu. apt-get hasn't been stripped out, it never existed in Gentoo to start with. apt (and it's associated commands) are part of Debian and as a result Ubuntu. Gentoo uses a package manager/library called Portage. You should read this page Gentoo Linux Documentation -- A Portage Introduction The crux of it is will be. You need to run... Carefully follow any instructions, such as updates to portage, and then follow it's instructions also. then run Check what 'use' flags it has and what dependencies it is going to install. If your happy with the defaults then just issue... Note: that the packages probably take a little while to install as it involves the system compiling packages from the source code.

You could probably do with running some updates, but for a novice Gentoo user it can be a little scary... - concentrate on get it working if you can before trying out updates.... Do all these DNS entries resolve Ok on the Linux box, e.g. with the host or nslookup commands. Have you check if the entries are hard coded into the /etc/hosts file - If so update this accordingly. I'm a bit of Linux junkie (Gentoo especially) but not so much of a Windows one (certainly not dabbled in 2008 yet). Linux could itself work fine without Samba working (should at least be able to login locally as root). Although it's possible that local authenitcation has been configured to talk to AD via LDAP or via Kerberos. Check /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/pam.d for details. You may find the packages nss_ldap and pam_ldap (i think?) are installed Linux will be talking over TCP/IP. I'm wondering if you have the webserver (Apache?) configured to use an NTLM module for authentication against web pages (possibly seperately to Samba) - check in /etc/apache2/ somewhere...

Network masks are conflicting. The host is going to get confused as to which interface to use to get to 192.168.115.1. If you want to test this take down the internal interface (e.g. ifconfig eth1 down), or unplug it and it will work fine and dandy. I'd suggest using a different internal IP range/netmask if at all possible?

Have you considered Xerte? Xerte - Open Source E-Learning Developer Tools

Has this problem sorted itself out? I'm guessing it's a broken ebuild on Gentoo? - I'm pretty sure Gentoo packages aren't supposed to try and install into /usr/local If doing an emerge --sync and trying it again doesn't work then try masking (/etc/portage/package.mask) that version and install an earlier one if possible. Alternatively go the other way and unmask an later version - I sometimes find that the Gentoo developers are a bit slow to unmask packages that are actually pretty stable:tinfoil3: