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What do I actually need? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm in the means of buying a mini pc for selfhosting stuff. My main reasons are sailing the high seas for movies and series and hosting my families photos, videos to escape gdrive. I'm thinking about some kind of DMS / digitalizing paperwork and mail in the future.

I casually look into all kinds of software that could do the task and now I'm a bit overwhelmed. Is owncloud or an alternative enough, or do I need something more elaborated like TrueNAS? But all the NAS Foss stuff seems to run on their own OS. Can my Pirate Ship run on that? I feel like the diversity of solutions is making this very opaque for me.

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is owncloud or an alternative enough, or do I need something more elaborated like TrueNAS?

I run a Nextcloud for my family and then serve the same folders again via samba to the same users. Don't need a separate NAS for this, just activate the samba service on the same machine.

Regarding the pirate ship, I don't know. I haven't tried that yet.

[–] xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So uploads go via nc and samba distributes stuff back to the personal devices? Or what does samba actually do in this case?

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Samba makes the same files available via another protocol. Sometimes you prefer a web browser interface, or the nextcloud companion app, and sometimes you prefer the Windows explorer.

[–] xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, thanks for the clarification!