My wife and kids were talking to me about finally putting a media server on our home network for videos, music, photos and backups. FreeNAS seemed like what I should use but after burning the LiveCD and getting xpt_config errors and mountroot stuff, I just sighed cause I wasn't in the mood to deal with that. I admit that's all I did but I was using a system with FreeBSD 8.1 mounted on it and don't understand why it didn't just work.
I don't understand what I gain by using FreeNAS vs just using Samba. I also admit I've never used Samba either so I don't know what the differences are. The rest of the family are Windows and Mac users. FreeNAS is network storage software while Samaba is just an interface, essentially. I guess the NAS would be more like a dedicated server, which is what I want, but if there are going to be issues with the somewhat hardware I have, I'd rather not mess with that.
Anyone enlighten me, please?
I don't understand what I gain by using FreeNAS vs just using Samba. I also admit I've never used Samba either so I don't know what the differences are. The rest of the family are Windows and Mac users. FreeNAS is network storage software while Samaba is just an interface, essentially. I guess the NAS would be more like a dedicated server, which is what I want, but if there are going to be issues with the somewhat hardware I have, I'd rather not mess with that.
Anyone enlighten me, please?