Re: NAS using Django

2016-03-10 Thread reduxionist
On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 7:15:17 PM UTC+7, Vayuj Rajan wrote: > > Hi, > I have a query whether we can implement NAS (network attached storage) > functionality using Django framework? > FWIW FreeNAS uses Django for its web admin (at least it did last time I

Re: NAS using Django

2016-03-10 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
Take a look at FreeNAS. They are running FreeBSD with a Django front-end that configures (among other things) Samba shares and Samba AD/domain joins. -A On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Vayuj Rajan wrote: > Actually, I saw a NAS at my friends place so I came up with an idea

Re: NAS using Django

2016-03-10 Thread Vayuj Rajan
yes you can say in that way I wanted to create a Owncloud for local server On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Florian Schweikert wrote: > On 10/03/16 08:03, Vayuj Rajan wrote: > > I configured SAMBA and I can access it directly at my computer. But what > > I saw there that

Re: NAS using Django

2016-03-10 Thread Florian Schweikert
On 10/03/16 08:03, Vayuj Rajan wrote: > I configured SAMBA and I can access it directly at my computer. But what > I saw there that he was accessing it by using a website . So basically > he was accessing it from local web server with a storage attached. You basically want something like

Re: NAS using Django

2016-03-09 Thread Vayuj Rajan
Actually, I saw a NAS at my friends place so I came up with an idea a of creating my own using a raspberry pi and an extrernal HDD. I configured SAMBA and I can access it directly at my computer. But what I saw there that he was accessing it by using a website . So basically he was accessing it

Re: NAS using Django

2016-03-09 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
That's still pretty vague. What 'file sharing protocols' are you talking about specifically? And what do you mean by wanting to 'connect' the file sharing protocols to the application? There is a PySMB library that will allow your Django application to pretend to be a Windows client. If you're

Re: NAS using Django

2016-03-09 Thread Vayuj Rajan
What I wanted to do is to connect the file sharing protocols to this web application i.e the one I will be making it from Django and I wanted to host this application using apache so that it can be hosted locally. On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 6:05:51 PM UTC+5:30, Andréas Kühne wrote: > > Hi

Re: NAS using Django

2016-03-09 Thread Andreas Kuhne
Hi Vayuj, I think you have to be a bit more specific. Django is a web framework, used for creating web applications and websites. A NAS is usually an array of harddrives that has different file sharing protocols attached (for example SMB or NFS). It would be possible to implement something like