Re: Building a FreeBSD NAS

Main aim is to access it from macOS as NAS backup server.

MacOS should be able to recognize it as a backup medium.

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Christoph 

> 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:
>> 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