Hi guys,
Well my first post here!
Basically I have been playing about with FreeNAS on a spare Dell optiplex I have. One word - amazing. Simply amazing software. Why am I not sticking with it I hear your cry! Well, I can't seem to get the latest sabnzbd installed, sabnzbd 0.4.3 works but I wanted to update ideally.
This talk of a server got me thinking, I could use a printer server and mail server as well. This obviously goes beyond what FreeNAS was intended so hence, here I am!
How feasible is it to run FreeBSD as a headless home server? My requirements are:
1) samba shares to Arch linux box, vista machine & apple laptop, HTPC.
2) Upnp streaming to Playstation 3 (FreeNAS uses fuppes I think, but I have more experience of mediatomb on linux)
3) printer server - manager my printer so that my laptop, windows and linux boxes can print from it at anytime. Is this even what a printer server does? :r
4) Mail server - I want to be able to backup e-mails from a pop3 account & have the ability to setup "out of office" notifications when I go on holiday. (I can't seem to do this on standard pop3 e-mail setup). Again is this what a mail server can do?
5) torrent downloads, with webGUI. FreeNAS uses Transmission, is this a safe bet?
6) SABnzbd latest version installed and accessable via other machines.
As you can tell I'm kinda new to the server side of unix. My main concerns are getting the printer and mail server setup correctly.
I have used Arch linux for a couple of years now and can use the command line fairly well. I'm not scared of it anymore I understand Arch linux uses the same file structure as FreeBSD i.e. rc.conf? So FreeBSD shouldn't be to hard to learn?
oh, I also would need some kind of easy to manage GUI for administration like freeNAS uses, from googling today alot of newbies like me use webmin, on linux anyway. Can I use that on FreeBSD, do people recommend anything else or is webmin what I need?
Hope people take the time to read and can provide any advise as to what links to read, any tips or comments are appreciated.
Regards
Oxy
Well my first post here!
Basically I have been playing about with FreeNAS on a spare Dell optiplex I have. One word - amazing. Simply amazing software. Why am I not sticking with it I hear your cry! Well, I can't seem to get the latest sabnzbd installed, sabnzbd 0.4.3 works but I wanted to update ideally.
This talk of a server got me thinking, I could use a printer server and mail server as well. This obviously goes beyond what FreeNAS was intended so hence, here I am!
How feasible is it to run FreeBSD as a headless home server? My requirements are:
1) samba shares to Arch linux box, vista machine & apple laptop, HTPC.
2) Upnp streaming to Playstation 3 (FreeNAS uses fuppes I think, but I have more experience of mediatomb on linux)
3) printer server - manager my printer so that my laptop, windows and linux boxes can print from it at anytime. Is this even what a printer server does? :r
4) Mail server - I want to be able to backup e-mails from a pop3 account & have the ability to setup "out of office" notifications when I go on holiday. (I can't seem to do this on standard pop3 e-mail setup). Again is this what a mail server can do?
5) torrent downloads, with webGUI. FreeNAS uses Transmission, is this a safe bet?
6) SABnzbd latest version installed and accessable via other machines.
As you can tell I'm kinda new to the server side of unix. My main concerns are getting the printer and mail server setup correctly.
I have used Arch linux for a couple of years now and can use the command line fairly well. I'm not scared of it anymore I understand Arch linux uses the same file structure as FreeBSD i.e. rc.conf? So FreeBSD shouldn't be to hard to learn?
oh, I also would need some kind of easy to manage GUI for administration like freeNAS uses, from googling today alot of newbies like me use webmin, on linux anyway. Can I use that on FreeBSD, do people recommend anything else or is webmin what I need?
Hope people take the time to read and can provide any advise as to what links to read, any tips or comments are appreciated.
Regards
Oxy