Re: [LUG] Best linux distro for home file server

And when it does it either doesn't pick up the ethernet card or sets itself it's own ip which I can't connect to.

I might need to get another board which could be hard to do since finding one that supports ddr1 ram and a pentium 4

On 09:17, Wed, 6 May 2015ÂTremayne, Steve <steven.tremayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK, I realise Iâm a little late to this party, butâ

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Open Media Vault (http://www.openmediavault.org/) has recently âupgradedâ to Debian Wheezyâ

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You just download the ISO, transfer it to a USB stick, boot off that to do the install, then reboot and you have a web based GUI to setup the NASâ

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Under the hood, itâs just Debian with all the hard work done by someone else â so itâs perfectly feasible to add other features (i.e. HFS support?)

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Note: you have to install this to its own drive â which canât be the same as the storage drives, so your 3x80GB system would need some additional driveâ

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Perhaps try it with a(nother) USB stick as the installation drive â but be aware that it will be nuked after ~2 or 3 weeks use (from my own experience), so get a cheap USB based SSD and run it off that â I expect your motherboard will have an internal USB port you can useâ

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Iâve tried FreeNAS, Nass4Free & OpenFiler â each have their own pros & cons, but Iâve settled on OMV for my home useâ (which is a similar Frankenstein creation with a hideously inefficient PSUâ luckily OMV can be set to power up / down at different times of the day J)

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Cheers,

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Steve

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Best linux distro for home file server

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Zentyal..??

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It's an option, certainly - but have you any experience of it?

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I evaluated it last year and discarded it fairly early as it became clear that the community (free) version was significantly behind development to bolster the sales of the paid version and that community support was quite sparse. I also found the tone of the upselling on the site strongly offputting.

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This is a model that is becoming increasingly common as companies who face debts seek to monetize their products, or are bought out and plundered, but it's not one *I* would willingly choose over truly free alternatives.

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