TrueNAS vs Samba

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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
> <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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