I found a bit of NAS happiness on the road recently. I could never get NASLite to actually work. Try as I might, installs would just not work so I reserve opinion on that one. It must be cool; but i could not testify it. Next stop was FreeNAS . This is probably the best one of the breed. OpenFiler seems cool but it wants too much. It wants authentication set up front and won’t let me create users. How about just taking it to the next step OpenFiler and just offering me a default authentication module that works when I install and then the chance of adding OpenLDAP if I so desire?
But here’s the real thing for a small workgroup NAS device. You can do it without this stuff. Consider what it is you want. Backups, file sharing, rsync, samba, web? Document and music sharing? How about media sharing using an iTunes server and using web? Firefly media server will do it for the iTunes easily or pretty easily. The following are the tools that went into mikesnas:
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