![]() My buddy is asking me for help at his work. They edit a LOT of videos and they're always having to pass portable hard drives around to share projects. I'm trying to set them up with a NAS. Money isn't an issue, so I can make it pretty powerful. It'll involve 10gb Ethernet connections with link aggregation on the NAS computer for high bandwidth and 8 1TB SSD's in an undecided RAID configuration. My question is two fold. First, can both Windows and Mac access the same NAS (most likely freeNAS)? And if so, could they both work off the NAS in the same manner as a local drive instead of having to transfer, work, transfer back? I'm new to NAS and the stuff I've been reading makes me think that access from both Windows and Mac isn't a problem. But I can't get a clear answer on using NAS in the same manner as a local drive. And while I could dive in and figure it out from tinkering, they won't let me loose on it until I have answers. My buddy is asking me for help at his work. They edit a LOT of videos and they're always having to pass portable hard drives around to share projects. I'm trying to set them up with a NAS. Money isn't an issue, so I can make it pretty powerful. It'll involve 10gb Ethernet connections with link aggregation on the NAS computer for high bandwidth and 8 1TB SSD's in an undecided RAID configuration. My question is two fold. First, can both Windows and Mac access the same NAS (most likely freeNAS)? And if so, could they both work off the NAS in the same manner as a local drive instead of having to transfer, work, transfer back? I'm new to NAS and the stuff I've been reading makes me think that access from both Windows and Mac isn't a problem. But I can't get a clear answer on using NAS in the same manner as a local drive. And while I could dive in and figure it out from tinkering, they won't let me loose on it until I have answers. Mar 24, 2012 - Using FreeNAS's CIFS Service To Allow Local Computers (e.g., Mac, Windows, Linux) To Share Data Within A Local Network. Posted on March. FreeNAS supports sharing protocols for all major operating systems including CIFS/SMB (Windows), AFP (Apple), and NFS (Unix). Stream Movies and Music FreeNAS makes it easy to stream and share your movies and music with your family on any number of devices. The answer to all of your questions is 'Yes'. Both Win and OS X platforms can access the same NAS at the same time, no need for a 2 step transfer/share process. Yes, you can set up shared drives that can be used similarly to local drives. Just another mapped drive, not a problem. FreeNAS is excellent for these capabilities, so is Windows Home Server 2011, and NAS4Free. There are other similar OSes available as well. SMB (server message block) is Microsoft Windows' way of sharing files across a network, and it's become the accepted universal standard. (Well, an accepted universal standard. The next most popular is probably NFS, but that's mostly used in Unix. ![]() And Windows support is spotty at best.) The package for accessing SMB shares on Unix systems like OS X has been coined Samba, and OS X has a version. If you use FreeNAS, you will probably want to set up the shares as SMB for this reason. So yes the Macs will be able to access file shares on the NAS, or on Windows computers for that matter.
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