Re: Building a FreeBSD NAS

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 3:39 PM Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> wrote:

> Main aim is to access it from macOS as NAS backup server.
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> MacOS should be able to recognize it as a backup medium.
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> —
> Christoph
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You may do this as follows explained on pages from search in Google :


from macos to freebsd nfs server


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk








> Am 05.02.2022 um 11:02 schrieb infoomatic <infoomatic@gmx.at>:
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> On 05.02.22 10:13, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
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> I’m thinking of setting up a NAS server on my FreeBSD (12.1) system. What would be the product from ports or server I had to use?
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> depends on how you gonna use it. First, I suggest updating to 12.3 since
> 12.1 is end of life, or upgrade to 13.0.
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> I use plain sshfs, so I do not need anything from ports ;-) I just use
> sshd from the base system and fusefs-sshfs on my clients.
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> If you intend to use nfs, it is also in base - with 13.0 you can also use
> TLS to encrypt data in transmission.
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> iscsi is also in base. However, if you want to share files with Windows
> clients, you can use samba413 from ports/pkg.
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> If you want to share files via webdav, use apache24 from ports/pkg, for
> ftp I can recommend vsftpd from ports/pkg (or proftpd).
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> For afp/filesharing with macos you can use netatalk3 from ports/pkg.
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> Regards,
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> Robert
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