Re: Building a FreeBSD NAS

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 8:37 PM Shamim Shahriar <shamim.shahriar@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mehmet and group
>
> I'm not sure Truenas would require a separate computer, the existing
> computer should be okay (assuming it is okay for adding all the services
> manually). At best it may suggest a smaller boot device in addition.
> Depending on the requirement for stability and redundancy there can be many
> other additions -- but for a pure and simple network attached storage,
> running FreeBSD 12.x and supporting many different sharing possibility
> (samba, NFS, WebDAV, iSCSI) all ready to function as desired without the
> need to get into all the nitty-gritty of things -- I honestly would like to
> understand why no one mentioned Truenas.
>
> Disclaimer: I do not work for Truenas nor have any pecuniary interest not
> am I advocating for it. I'm just saying I'm a happy user and and think this
> may be a possible solution.
>
> Best regards.
> SS
>
>

Another issue about supplying an answer to a question is to know
sufficiently well
the possibilities . When people do not know TrueNAS in such detail , it is
natural
to omit it because she/he is not able to say anything useful about it .

Another point is also everyone is trying to supply an answer which who
knows it very well .
When these answers are considered as a whole , the question is more
explicitly and
correctly answered , and it is possible to select best one of the
alternatives by knowing
them in sufficient  correctness .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk





> On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, 14:46 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 5:22 PM Shamim Shahriar <shamim.shahriar@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone, just out of curiosity, why Truenas has not been
>>> considered a possible solution? After all, it does everything that has been
>>> discussed so far and seem to fit the bill quite well!
>>>
>>> Just curious!
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> SS
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> With respect to me :
>>
>> He has an existent computer and he wants to use it .
>> To suggest a different computer or install a different ( let's say )
>> version seems
>> to be not useful for him .
>>
>>
>> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, 12:58 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, <
>>> m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> MacOS should be able to recognize it as a backup medium.
>>>>>
>>>>> —
>>>>> Christoph
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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>:
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 05.02.22 10:13, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you intend to use nfs, it is also in base - with 13.0 you can also
>>>>> use TLS to encrypt data in transmission.
>>>>>
>>>>> iscsi is also in base. However, if you want to share files with
>>>>> Windows clients, you can use samba413 from ports/pkg.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want to share files via webdav, use apache24 from ports/pkg,
>>>>> for ftp I can recommend vsftpd from ports/pkg (or proftpd).
>>>>>
>>>>> For afp/filesharing with macos you can use netatalk3 from ports/pkg.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Robert
>>>>>
>>>>>