Thanks for all the replies. FreeNAS looks like the ticket. BTW, sharity-light is marked as broken in the ports -- does not compile. I'm on 8.0-STABLE amd64.
On May 11 2010 06:43, Andrew Gould wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:00 AM, <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > > Chip Camden <sterl...@camdensoftware.com> wrote: > > > >> Does anyone have a recommendation for NAS that works well for > >> both FreeBSD and Windows clients? > > > > IME, among commercial offerings, virtually all support SMB (via > > Samba) but only the high-end (large & relatively costly) ones > > support NFS also. (A while back, the largest Buffalo that Fry's > > had -- 4TB IIRC -- claimed to support NFS; all other NAS of any > > brand mentioned only SMB and DELNI.) > > > > You can use an inexpensive SMB-only NAS with a FreeBSD client, > > but you'll need Samba on the client. > > > > Another item to consider in this discussion is sharity-light, an > easy-to-use program that allows FreeBSD to mount Windows shares. > Sharity-light is in the ports and Sharity is available as a > commercial product: > > http://www.freshports.org/net/sharity-light > http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/index.html > > Andrew Gould > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
