On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Chip Camden <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does anyone have a recommendation for NAS that works well for >> both FreeBSD and Windows clients? > > IME, among commercial offerings, virtually all support SMB (via > Samba) but only the high-end (large & relatively costly) ones > support NFS also. (A while back, the largest Buffalo that Fry's > had -- 4TB IIRC -- claimed to support NFS; all other NAS of any > brand mentioned only SMB and DELNI.) > > You can use an inexpensive SMB-only NAS with a FreeBSD client, > but you'll need Samba on the client. >
Another item to consider in this discussion is sharity-light, an easy-to-use program that allows FreeBSD to mount Windows shares. Sharity-light is in the ports and Sharity is available as a commercial product: http://www.freshports.org/net/sharity-light http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/index.html Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
