#UBUNTU SAMBA NAS HOW TO#
#UBUNTU SAMBA NAS UPGRADE#

Plus, if you lose one drive, you lose everything, so backups become that much more crucial.Įven now, when I have multiple size drives in one ZFS pool, I still run multiple datasets with different parameters, tuned to what I actually plan to store. Dumping all of your data into one big JBOD volume keeps you from tuning your filesystem to match your load. Samba will probably be a bit slower but is easy to use, and will work with windows clients as well. I haven't tried with just samba-common installed. With full samba installed and 'client min protocol NT1' add to smb.conf I can mount the NAS share and the objects (avi, jpg, etc.) are seen and treated properly as objects not as folders.

#UBUNTU SAMBA NAS UPGRADE#

The main problem is the complete lack of decent security. For me, it is now solved after today's (may 21) Ubuntu upgrade to 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.2.

Enter your NAS username and password and then click Connect. In the Connect to Server field, enter your NAS's Samba location (for example: smb://172.16.2.134) and then click on Connect. Usually people think they want one big place to dump all their stuff, but in actuality, usage patterns may dictate that you tune one filesystem for lots of small files, large ones, or maybe some of your data needs to be optimized for more random access. NFS (version 3) will give higher performance and is quite easy to set up. uBuntu Files provides the following protocols to access NAS files. I've moved away from just JBODing a bunch of disks over the years, though. It's not ideal, but it gives me redundancy with disparate drive sizes.Īnother Non-ZFS option would be LVM2 and whatever filesystem you wanted. Like I have 2 vdevs in one pool: one with 4X8TB drives in raidz1, and I have 2圆TB drives running in RAID1. Usually in a ZFS system, a vdev is a group of identical drives set up in a redundant configuration. I can't guarantee how performant that would be. The file smb. Tip: Replacing sudo nano with gksudo gedit gives you a nice graphical editor. This guide will use Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS, but the steps should work even if you are using Ubuntu 16.04 or later.

#UBUNTU SAMBA NAS HOW TO#

How to Save: To save in nano use 'CTRL-O', then 'CTRL-X'. JBOD can definitely do that, and you're right, sort of: ZFS doesn't 'like' disparate drive sizes, but you can technically add individual drives as individual vdevs in a pool, and you can basically treat those vdevs as one big JBOD. First open a terminal: Applications > System Tools > Terminal and open the file smb.conf.

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