Re: Building a FreeBSD NAS

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:
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>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 3:39 PM Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>> —
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>
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>> You may do this as follows explained on pages from search in Google :
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>> from macos to freebsd nfs server
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>> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>