Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-26 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 21:39 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > Also, never underestimate the OS disk: RPIs boot off a microSD card. I am > surprised that my Banana Pi M2+EDU still runs on its first card after more > than two years, so it seems to be possible to get some reliability out of > the

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 mar 20, 21:39:43, Linux-Fan wrote: > > Consider a Raspberry PI: External PSU for the Raspberry PI, two external PSU > for two external HDDs. It gets easier with the SATA hat, but even then you > need to somehow power the whole system. A single PSU at the USB input for > the RPI is

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread deloptes
Linux-Fan wrote: >> So the conclusion is to take the SATA extention/expansion board. >> I saw some of them (4 ports) are coming with external power supply. IMO >> it doesn't matter what "regular" system you take, cause the disk has the >> same power consumption be it on the "regular" or on the

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Linux-Fan
deloptes writes: Linux-Fan wrote: > From my experience, RAID1 on USB does not work reliably. > See https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg00602.html > > For NAS-style use cases, I consider single board computers to have an > advantage mainly in terms of power consumption. In case one

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread deloptes
Linux-Fan wrote: > From my experience, RAID1 on USB does not work reliably. > See https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg00602.html > > For NAS-style use cases, I consider single board computers to have an > advantage mainly in terms of power consumption. In case one is going to > run

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Linux-Fan
G.W. Haywood writes: Hi there, On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, deloptes wrote: Does someone has experience with USB3 disks - may be in raid1 on the Rpi4? I tried years ago with usb2 disks in raid1 and the results were miserable. A good point I missed. I should have said in my previous post that the

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 mar 20, 12:34:48, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > 3. HTTPS does NOT make the Web secure. Not even close. I'm not sure > that even the banks still try to peddle that fiction any more. Are you implying banks should not bother and use plain HTTP instead? > Any > criminal can have a free

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:23:38 +1300 Richard Hector wrote: > On 25/03/20 5:18 am, Charles Curley wrote: > > When I realized that nextcloud stores files as binary blobs > > in an SQL database, I decided that I prefer Samba (or AFS or > > NFS), where a file is backed by a file. > > On my

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 March 2020 08:34:48 G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > setting [a VPN] up looks rather daunting. > > It isn't so difficult when you get the hang of it. If you like I can > set one up for you by sending two files and some simple

Re: Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: setting [a VPN] up looks rather daunting. It isn't so difficult when you get the hang of it. If you like I can set one up for you by sending two files and some simple instructions. Here's the configuration for an openvpn server at my place

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 08:33:17AM +0100, Vincent Lammens wrote: > Op 2020-03-25 om 8:23 schreef deloptes: > > I was wondering if you have considered using VPN? > > > > How would a VPN help him? A VPS might, but that is a server in the > cloud, which are quite expensive sometimes. I read it as

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 March 2020 03:23:50 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Whereas I installed the 16 inch gun version of bot killers, > > iptables.  It has taken 65 lines of DROP's in the form of > > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 to control the bots but I seem to be doing that > > well now, and my net

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Joe
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:46:00 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > > I hosted services from home many years ago. My bandwidth was very > quickly consumed and connectivity became a major problem. Now I use > domain hosting and VPS services. > I've never known enough about web server security

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Vincent Lammens
Op 2020-03-25 om 8:23 schreef deloptes: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Whereas I installed the 16 inch gun version of bot killers, iptables.  It >> has taken 65 lines of DROP's in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 to >> control the bots but I seem to be doing that well now, and my net >> bandwidth has

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Whereas I installed the 16 inch gun version of bot killers, iptables.  It > has taken 65 lines of DROP's in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 to > control the bots but I seem to be doing that well now, and my net > bandwidth has dropped like a rock, was peaking at >100g a month

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread Richard Hector
On 25/03/20 5:18 am, Charles Curley wrote: > When I realized that nextcloud stores files as binary blobs > in an SQL database, I decided that I prefer Samba (or AFS or NFS), > where a file is backed by a file. On my Nextcloud server, a file is backed by a file. It's under (in my case)

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 6:45 AM, deloptes wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: > > The covid-19 situation is giving me lots of free time recently, so I've > > ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 with delivery expected sometime this week. > Can you explain to me what type of storage you intend to setup on the pi4

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 March 2020 18:46:00 David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-03-24 03:49, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 March 2020 06:20:35 Vincent Lammens wrote: > >> Op 2020-03-24 om 10:56 schreef Gene Heskett: > >>> Is this something I could use to ease my support burden in trying > >>> to

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-03-24 03:49, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 March 2020 06:20:35 Vincent Lammens wrote: Op 2020-03-24 om 10:56 schreef Gene Heskett: Is this something I could use to ease my support burden in trying to supply an rpi4 version of LinuxCNC? As it is, I am building it and its

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-03-24 01:43, Rick Thomas wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Vincent Lammens wrote: openmediavault. Are there plugins to handle NFS (for Linux clients) and AFP (for Mac clients)? Or (since both of them do speak SMB, whatever it's limitations) is SMB/ftp/ssh considered

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread deloptes
G.W. Haywood wrote: > A good point I missed.  I should have said in my previous post that > the USB interface devices that I used on the Pi 4B were both USB2 and > USB3 varieties, and that there doesn't seem to be a difference in the > reliability between the two.  An addendum: the discs

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 March 2020 12:55:24 Vincent Lammens wrote: > Op 24/03/2020 om 17:32 schreef Gene Heskett: > > I'd assume that I could put the pi files in the same sandbox? Thats > > somewhat confusing because www-data doesn't exist as a user on > > either machine. But it works on this amd64

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 March 2020 09:45:49 deloptes wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: > > The covid-19 situation is giving me lots of free time recently, so > > I've ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 with delivery expected sometime this > > week. > > Can you explain to me what type of storage you intend to setup on the

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Vincent Lammens
Op 24/03/2020 om 17:32 schreef Gene Heskett: > I'd assume that I could put the pi files in the same sandbox? Thats > somewhat confusing because www-data doesn't exist as a user on either > machine. But it works on this amd64 machine, but a chown doesn't work on > the pi. Humm, pi is not a

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 March 2020 08:15:31 Vincent Lammens wrote: > Op 2020-03-24 om 11:49 schreef Gene Heskett: > > Apache2 that is. I assume I'll have to setup the web page on the pi > > to serve the stuff up first? I haven't done that yet. Thereby > > divorcing it from sshfs etc? > > Yeah, once you can

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:14:24 -0700 "Rick Thomas" wrote: > Can you explain a little bit about how "plain vanilla Samba" fits > into the nextcloud picture? It doesn't, really. I had Samba running just fine long before I tried nextcloud. When I realized that nextcloud stores files as binary blobs

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, deloptes wrote: Does someone has experience with USB3 disks - may be in raid1 on the Rpi4? I tried years ago with usb2 disks in raid1 and the results were miserable. A good point I missed. I should have said in my previous post that the USB interface devices

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread deloptes
Rick Thomas wrote: > The covid-19 situation is giving me lots of free time recently, so I've > ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 with delivery expected sometime this week. Can you explain to me what type of storage you intend to setup on the pi4 - USB3 disks? Does someone has experience with USB3 disks

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 Rick Thomas wrote: ... I've ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 ... I hope that it doesn't turn out that you were impetuous. I know that I was, when I bought my first 4B, and tried to use it instead of my desktop machine for browsing, mail, and a bunch of X sessions. It

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Vincent Lammens
Op 2020-03-24 om 11:49 schreef Gene Heskett: > Apache2 that is. I assume I'll have to setup the web page on the pi to > serve the stuff up first? I haven't done that yet. Thereby divorcing it > from sshfs etc? Yeah, once you can access the files on the Apache install on the rpi, you can set up

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 March 2020 06:20:35 Vincent Lammens wrote: > Op 2020-03-24 om 10:56 schreef Gene Heskett: > > Is this something I could use to ease my support burden in trying to > > supply an rpi4 version of LinuxCNC? > > > > As it is, I am building it and its preempt-rt kernel on the pi, but > >

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Vincent Lammens
Op 2020-03-24 om 10:56 schreef Gene Heskett: > Is this something I could use to ease my support burden in trying to > supply an rpi4 version of LinuxCNC? > > As it is, I am building it and its preempt-rt kernel on the pi, but have > to jump thru perms hoops to move those builds to this machine

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 March 2020 04:43:18 Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Vincent Lammens wrote: > > Hi Rick > > > > You could try openmediavault. It has an iso for the raspberrypi, and > > comes with a smb, ftp and ssh system preinstalled, so serving all > > kinds of client os's

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Vincent Lammens
Op 2020-03-24 om 9:43 schreef Rick Thomas: > Thanks, Vincent. That looks very interesting. Are there plugins to handle > NFS (for Linux clients) and AFP (for Mac clients)? Or (since both of them do > speak SMB, whatever it's limitations) is SMB/ftp/ssh considered sufficient > for all? Yes,

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Vincent Lammens wrote: > Hi Rick > > You could try openmediavault. It has an iso for the raspberrypi, and > comes with a smb, ftp and ssh system preinstalled, so serving all kinds > of client os's should be no problem. It also has a webgui, and has a few >

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Vincent Lammens
Op Tue, 24 Mar 2020 07:54:14 +0100 deloptes schreef: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> Vincent Lammens > >> https://vincentlammens.net > > > > Access denied. Cert problem. > > This was a good one, Gene :) > > But lets give the youth a chance :) > > Vincent, when I open http://vincentlammens.net

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 9:28 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:43:43 -0700 > "Rick Thomas" wrote: > > > Can anybody suggest a good NAS package? Debian based is preferable, > > but almost any Linux will do. > > I find a combination of plain vanilla Samba and nextcloud do me

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: >> Vincent Lammens >> https://vincentlammens.net > > Access denied. Cert problem. This was a good one, Gene :) But lets give the youth a chance :) Vincent, when I open http://vincentlammens.net it redirects correctly to https://vincentlammens.net/en and opens, but as Gene

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 March 2020 01:59:11 Vincent Lammens wrote: > Hi Rick > > You could try openmediavault. It has an iso for the raspberrypi, and > comes with a smb, ftp and ssh system preinstalled, so serving all > kinds of client os's should be no problem. It also has a webgui, and > has a few

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-23 Thread Vincent Lammens
Hi Rick You could try openmediavault. It has an iso for the raspberrypi, and comes with a smb, ftp and ssh system preinstalled, so serving all kinds of client os's should be no problem. It also has a webgui, and has a few plugins to add webdav for example. --- Regards Vincent Lammens

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:43:43 -0700 "Rick Thomas" wrote: > Can anybody suggest a good NAS package? Debian based is preferable, > but almost any Linux will do. I find a combination of plain vanilla Samba and nextcloud do me quite well. -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-23 Thread Rick Thomas
The covid-19 situation is giving me lots of free time recently, so I've ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 with delivery expected sometime this week. I'd like to use it for a NAS for the home network, so my family can share files without resorting to sneaker-net. We have a full range of clients -- Mac,