Why Spend lots of $$$ on a NAS? Use FreeBSD and an old PC!

[@Y34RZERO]

Thanks for the video. I like your dog in the background. Reminds me of the dog I had growing up.

[@digital0ak]

There's a reason the storage clusters I used to admin used a variant of BSD.

[@GaryHTech]

Hi David, thanks for watching, Absolutely, and is also why a lot of the proprietary NAS solutions use a BSD variant.

[@kimpedersen]

just installed this on my newly reinstalled fBSD 13.1 - i did not add the ntlm-auth in my conf and it worked fine on Win11 :) Thanks alot for the video.

[@MrWarneet]

Hey great timing, I'm collecting parts right now for my third server, a very old i3 tower just waiting to afford 3 x 8TB drives.

[@GaryHTech]

Hi Stephen, thanks for watching, hope it's useful to you :)

[@alexb3410]

wife: what's that old pc box humming on the back of wardrobe? Me: that's our private netflix running on *bsd luv! (7 years straight).TV gets the streams(minidlna), samba or FTP for dropping the files. Nice video!

[@GaryHTech]

Hi Alex, thanks for watching, that's pretty much what my wife says to me! Ha ha

[@minimalistguy3103]

Thanks Gary. This is a very useful video. I followed this and have created a samba shared server which I can access from my windows machine. Is there a way I can upload / download files from this samba server to/from my iphone?

[@antonw8134]

If you like easy, small eMacs-like editors you might want to try out mg.

[@RoboNuggie]

Thank you Gary for a very useful video. A Google Drive video would be nice..... :-)

[@GaryHTech]

Thanks Chris, yeah I though that would peak people's interest somewhat.

[@zorabixun]

Mr Gary, thanks for your time on this interesting subject, but after it, I don't know what to do .... 😮 9 min for that ? .. how to install Samba ? .. how to set up Samba how to connect my desktop and RPi4 ? how to secure that server ? how to connect to server from outer Internet ? how to setup transfer through firewall ? ..... and more importantly : slow down please, we don't have experience on FreeBSD .. why not make 2 hourly parts, it could include even more explanations ... if we try to get into BSD we need time, or we go away to others for learning .. I give you an example 😊 Paul McWhorter on yt teaches people microcontrollers, programming, CAD, 3D printing, and other projects .. Actually are serries of Raspberry Pi Pico, and lesson 104 maybe, every lesson around 1 hour .. on the tiny microcontroller credit card size ..... I was attending many his projects, he is a real teacher, nicely teach every step and why it is .... Your video about File Server, Samba, etc, is 9 minutes 🤔 ? .. no comment

[@robf9562]

Gary, is there any way having FreeBSD boot-up automatically without demanding a login name and password? I have an old pc I want to use as samba server but I only have one monitor, which after I have set things up, would be reconnected to my main machine.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

Honestly, you're probably better off with using SSH in order to log in if you need to. In most cases you don't need to log in unless you want to run commands.

[@JonathanSteadman2003]

Your dog is cute. :)

[@GaryHTech]

Thanks, he's pretty old now, we lost his 'wife' to cancer a year ago, he's pretty sad note hrs on his own but we try to keep him happy. Thanks for watching :)

[@JonathanSteadman2003]

@@GaryHTech I am sorry his wife died due to cancer.

[@auntiecarol]

Subscriber #586 checking in. Do we get badges or something when you become famous :-)

[@GaryHTech]

Haha, I doubt I'll be famous some how but thank you for the encouragement and thanks for watching :)

[@baghdaddy3531]

500-600 pound device without disks?! Geez I thought tech on this side of the pond was heavy ;)

[@jonathondennis]

XigmaNAS!

[@vs4147]

Ive done this and it works perfect. 8 x 2TB in raid-z2. Qnap bye bye!