I use TrueNAS. It basically makes it simple to set up a dedicated SMB
file server, and simple to maintain. I would recommend it for those
reasons, as long as you have the dedicated hardware to support it:
* a dedicated boot / OS drive
* two additional hard drives (or more) for the storage, and
* an ethernet port. Wifi not allowed.
There's nothing inherently different from using TrueNAS versus a
roll-your-own Ubuntu server, other than TrueNAS removes a lot of the
guesswork at the expense of complete customization.
There's other dedicated NAS OSs out there you can use too, such as Open
Media Vault and Rockstor. They each have their pros and cons, but
ultimately achieve the same goal.
For the average personal file server, I would take the simple approach
versus the roll-your-own these days, unless you have a specific reason
to roll-your-own.
-Matt
On 1/13/25 20:33, Scott L. via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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
>
> ---
> Scott Lopez
> Email: plug@sl.neteng.cc
> Web: https://bio.neteng.pro
>
> 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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