Re: TrueNAS vs Samba

I'm more of a day-to-day Windows user, but I maintain two Ubuntu servers
(my Raspi and a VPS). From my experience, Samba can be rather difficult
to set up. In fact, I wasn't able to get it working between my Pi and
Win10 desktop.

The problem is there are many different versions of SMB/CIFS. I think I
may have disabled one of the services needed as well. Samba is supposed
to be simple. In fact, it's capable of hosting an Active Directory domain
if I'm not mistaken.

You may want to look into something more use case specific, such as
Syncthing. You can find more at the following links. It's a FOSS project.

- https://syncthing.net/
- https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing

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Scott Lopez
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Jan 13, 2025 9:46:01 AM techlists@phpcoderusa.com:

> 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

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