TrueNAS vs Samba

[Stephen Partington]

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 at 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 at 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
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