Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 20:35:39 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: SmartTech Sales <sales@smarttech.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: download Message-ID: <20100517183538.GA32289@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <003e01caf5df$4e30bed0$0400000a@SmartTech.local> References: <019c01caf5c7$0f7010a0$0400000a@SmartTech.local> <20100517155554.GA25757@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <003e01caf5df$4e30bed0$0400000a@SmartTech.local>
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--BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 06:37:49PM +0200, SmartTech Sales wrote: > Thanks Jerry >=20 > I had a reply that I should rather use 8.0 and there I can only download= =20 > disk1, the rest I can get from the ports collection. (I'm not sure that I= =20 > can download all 2GB of the DVD successfully, our bandwidth in SA is not= =20 > great or very reliable) We want to use freeBSD to setup NAS, do I need a= ny=20 > of the ports to do this? Looking at the work that has been put into making FreeNAS, it might be wort= hwhile to ask the developers when a version based on 8.x and supporting your card will be available. But if that is not an option, looking at the features of FreeNAS [http://freenas.org/features], I'd say you need _at least_ the following po= rts to more-or-less replicate the functionality of FreeNAS; Network protocols: - net/samba34 (for windows clients) - net/netatalk (for Apple clients) - ftp/proftpd (FTP) - net/rsync - net/unison - (NFS comes with the base system) - dns/inadyn - net/istgt Extra Services - net-p2p/transmission (bittorrent) - net/mediatomb (UPnP server) - audio/firefly (iTunes/DAAP) - www/lighttpd or www/apache22 (web server) System tools - sysutils/smartmontools (disk monitoring) - sysutils/rsyslog55 (secure remote logging) - ports-mgmt/portmaster (keeping ports up to date) - (portsnap comes with the base system.) - (sshd comes with the base system.) What you'll be missing is the FreeNAS web setup tools. I would download and install FreeNAS on a virtual machine just to look at the configurations for the different ports, so you don't have to figure that out all by yourself. = :-) On the other hand, if you only have to serve files for MS Windoze clients, = you might get by with installing samba and its dependencies and not much else. Anything that you don't install is one less item to configure and keep up-to-date. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkvxjHoACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWWdQCfZAy9F7lVkcc1hWwjIZ2DdsVJ RkAAoI7V3kwaYtKpd67tk9pAIKJBVjS2 =DT/X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--
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