On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Vikas Damodar Garud <vi...@techqual.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > I am looking for NAS for my home use. I want to store data so that it may > be > accessed through multiple devices - laptops and smart phones through WiFi > network connection. At present, I a using SuSE and Ubuntu Linux on my > laptops. I have a broadband connection, accessed through WiFi router > (Belkin > N150). The router has 4 Ethernet ports, currently unused. I am planning > to > connect the NAS drive to one of the Ethernet ports on the router. > > I looked through Seagate and Western Digital websites. Both of them have > NAS > products/personal cloud products. Both of them specify Windows and MAC OS > as > the supported operating systems. Linux is not specified. Does it mean > that > NAS drives from these manufacturers won't be useful for me at my home? Or > does it mean that I need to make some changes to some settings (if > available) > to access the drive through laptops and smart phone? Or does it mean that > Windows or MAC OS is necessary for initial set-up (That is manageable). Or > ... > Try Freenas. Check out http://www.freenas.org I have not tried it myself but people say it is good. Regards -Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
