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[Roland Smith]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 06:37:49PM +0200, SmartTech Sales wrote:
> Thanks Jerry
> 
> I had a reply that I should rather use 8.0 and there I can only download 
> disk1, the rest I can get from the ports collection. (I'm not sure that I 
> can download all 2GB of the DVD successfully, our bandwidth in SA is not 
> great or very reliable)  We want to use freeBSD to setup NAS, do I need any 
> of the ports to do this?

Looking at the work that has been put into making FreeNAS, it might be worthwhile
to ask the developers when a version based on 8.x and supporting your card
will be available.

But if that is not an option, looking at the features of FreeNAS
[http://freenas.org/features], I'd say you need _at least_ the following ports
to more-or-less replicate the functionality of FreeNAS;

Network protocols:
  - net/samba34 (for windows clients)
  - net/netatalk (for Apple clients)
  - ftp/proftpd (FTP)
  - net/rsync
  - net/unison
  - (NFS comes with the base system)
  - dns/inadyn
  - net/istgt

Extra Services
  - net-p2p/transmission (bittorrent)
  - net/mediatomb (UPnP server)
  - audio/firefly (iTunes/DAAP)
  - www/lighttpd or www/apache22 (web server)

System tools
  - sysutils/smartmontools (disk monitoring)
  - sysutils/rsyslog55 (secure remote logging)
  - ports-mgmt/portmaster (keeping ports up to date)
  - (portsnap comes with the base system.)
  - (sshd comes with the base system.)

What you'll be missing is the FreeNAS web setup tools. I would download and
install FreeNAS on a virtual machine just to look at the configurations for
the different ports, so you don't have to figure that out all by yourself. :-)

On the other hand, if you only have to serve files for MS Windoze clients, you
might get by with installing samba and its dependencies and not much
else. Anything that you don't install is one less item to configure and keep
up-to-date.

Roland
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