Thank you everyone who responded. Armed with all this feedback I think I really only need Samba. Simple for file sharing and as a backup. I have an 8G USB backup drive that I bought on sale and have not used. I am thinking I can use it. I'm thinking it will be slow however I really do not need much. Thanks!! Keith On 2025-01-16 10:32, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > I personally am using Open Media Vault as it is Debian-based and plays > very nicely as a VM/Container and allows me to slice a portion of my > VM host off to use as a dedicated NAS. TrueNAS was not as pliant for > me in my scenario. > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM James Dugger via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > >> Hi Keith, >> TrueNAS, FreeNAS over any single protocol like SMB, NFS etc because >> it does them all. But more importantly it can do Object Storage. >> Object storage is the future. Look into Minio on TrueNAS/FreeNAS. >> >> Minio will set up an Object store on your local NAS and then you can >> deliver file access over ReST/ HTTP/HTTPS >> >> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Lets say I have a kubuntu desktop, a ubuntu file server, and a >>> windows >>> desktop, how can I configure the kubuntu desktop and win11 desktop >>> to >>> share files on my ubuntu file server? >>> >>> ChatGPT says I should use Samba for both Linux and Windows. >>> >>> What is the advantage of using a NAS like TrueNAS over SMB? >>> >>> Thanks!! >>> Keith >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> -- >> >> James >> >> Linkedin [1] >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-h-dugger/15/64b/74a/ > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss