Windows clien't can't connect to anything. SMB shares very slow from Mac.
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Just reading about owncloud. Thats starting to look like a NAS.
Looks cool though and it runs on linux. (Probably runs best on linux, BSD and other unix like systems)
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Just reading about owncloud. Thats starting to look like a NAS.
It's pretty much like Dropbox or Google drive except you host it yourself.
Yeah - You would do much better with SFTP I think.
Though windows lacks the ability natively, there are add-on programs to give you SSH and SFTP access remotely.
Freenas most likely supports SFTP, I'll take a look.
I've never needed a windows server for things like this, but I think filezilla can do it.
The file server is actually freenas (freebsd). All of the servers are Linux or Freebsd as I don't like windows. The only reason I've used smb is for compatibility with the windows clients on the network.
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Awesome. Enable SMB on your Linux file server. You will have it all.
I've never needed something as dedicated as a large NAS. They seem to be resource hungry.
I do all my sharing out of a linux box with only SMB and SSH enabled and a script to mount the drives on boot. Nothing amazing.
Yours will no doubt be much more feature-rich and many people likely require such beasts.