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 < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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 < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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 * > --------------------------------------------------- > 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