Re: Building a FreeBSD NAS

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

On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, 14:46 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 5:22 PM Shamim Shahriar <shamim.shahriar@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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!
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>> Just curious!
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>> Kind regards
>> SS
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> With respect to me :
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> 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 .
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> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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>> On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, 12:58 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk, <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
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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.
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>>>> —
>>>> 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:
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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,
>>>>
>>>> Robert
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