[olug] nas box

[Kevin D. Snodgrass]

--- On Sat, 7/3/10, adam davis <radamdavis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi fellow Oluggers
> Can anyone tell me what distro would make the best NAS for
> a homework.

I assume you mean "a home network".

FreeBSD + ZFS

Slackware

> Also give some ideas on how to set it up too.

Depends on your level of skill with *NIX and friends.  If you need pointy-clicky gooeys, then maybe RedHat/CentOS or SuSE.  Note: I don't include Fedora and openSuSE because they are constantly being updated and support life is short.  That is good for a desktop, security things getting fixed quick and all.  But if you have a router/firewall between the this server and the Internet and don't allow outside NFS/CIFS mounts to athe fileserver/NAS most of those worries are gone.

Bottom line, for me at least, a fileserver/NAS should be as *THIN* as possible, i.e. no extra stuff installed and definately nothing extra loaded.

Kevin D. Snodgrass