ArchNAS

Mr Green · 2012-03-23 08:56:08

I have used FreeNAS in the past and while it works fine I wanted to create something more flexible.

Rough Design
linux-lts
openssh
lighttpd
webui?
torrent?
file storage?

It has to run from a usb pen drive/ CF/SD card/ SSD , then have main storage added....

Well aware of Arch Server project but [without checking!] it is based on LAMP.

Would anything like this interest anyone?

scjet · 2012-03-23 12:32:19

well, a quick search found:
http://www.openfiler.com/community/download
(It's all under "Arch").

Last edited by scjet (2012-03-23 12:38:02)

ratcheer · 2012-03-24 06:28:50

I am interested and I have a perfect machine to run it on. Besides NAS, I would be interested in using it as a network gateway machine, such as pfSense or Untangle.

Well, it is not exactly a perfect machine, as it is power hungry, but ...

Tim

Mr Green · 2012-03-24 06:35:24

It would not be that difficult to build from Archbang, webui is something that I know little about.

Most of the control side could be done via ssh/sshfs

My reasons are that I may need a small web server in the near future to share Archbang isos

pablokal · 2012-03-24 14:45:44

My reasons are that I may need a small web server in the near future to share Archbang isos

The most intricate aspect of this seems to get the safety aspect right.

Just remember what happened to Arpinux and his Livarp site that was hacked.

Mr Green · 2012-03-25 01:30:37

Do not need a site as such more somewhere to host isos, at the moment it takes a hour to upload one version. Any minor changes would mean hours of uploading.

A web server would mean I simply have to transfer a file to it, which would take just a few minutes.

Torrent would be a better option but my last attempt did not work.

I do like Freenas as it works right out of the box, have it running as a virtual web server under virtualbox, even managed to get port forwarding working so can access it anywhere.

To build a simple NAS using Arch would not really be difficult but as you say security very much an issue.

scjet · 2012-03-25 16:29:48

"FreeNAS" has Mr. Green written all over it.
Certain things, can just be really "GOOD", even though they may NOT be Linux (based) ?

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Mr Green · 2012-03-26 05:09:33

From Arch wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … rver_Guide

At the moment it would be more of a base install + required so easy to set up for testing.

The Webui part would not be easy to do [well for me anyway!]

Mr Green · 2012-04-04 07:58:35

After much hair pulling managed to get ArchNAS working, so far have got

Lighttpd
Ssh
Deluge

Currently around 1gb install, Deluge weighed in at over 200mb ;(

mrgreen.no-ip.co.uk/isos

Not much to see at the moment, and its running in a virtual machine so will not be running 24/7

Hope to get it running on a second machine in the near future

Mr Green · 2012-04-07 10:02:56

I added a user to my ArchNAS server but I do not want user to have /home/<user> thinking of adding user to have permission to use /srv where all server,web,torrent stuff is.

My reason is I want ArchNAS to run on a usb device while all storage is on a hard drive, wish to mount hard drive under /srv for all my storage needs.

Could easily move it to a /home directory but was not sure if that was the correct thing to do, so all my data, web pages were in /home/<user>

Using ssh to control server is fine but certainly do not want to have access via root

Thinking along the lines of :

useradd -d /srv <user>

Mr Green · 2012-04-09 00:39:47

Deluge was massive so tried to get transmission running, kept getting 403 error. After editing settings.json and restarting with no luck suddenly dawned on me I was not stopping service before editing config... does help!

Creating a torrent will be the next step.

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