Hello everyone. I am building a home server and need a few questions answered before I decide on my OS. I am using a gigabyte E350N Mini ITX motherboard, 4 gigs of ram, 5TB of space on a hot swappable system. The box is a Chenbro SR30169T2 (not that it matters all that much but wanted to inform you fully). I have been going back and forth between Ubuntu Server and FreeNAS for the build. All I want to do is use it for file sharing and dumping. I am not planning on running a mail server or anything else on it, just simply need a place for networked storage and thought that since one of my desktops is Ubuntu and it works slick that the server software would work equally as great. I have 4 systems in my home that would be accessing the server; a PowerPC mac, my Ubuntu desktop and two windows laptops running Win7 Ultimate. The first question I have is would this be "difficult" to set up? I could probably just use the Samba file server to do what I need it to do right? I know that everyone's interpretation of difficult is completely different and I am no slouch to the IT world. I have some experience in Linux but I would say it's not my strong suit. I also wanted to know if I could use it to stream things like movies over my network? I have wifi capable TV and network attached blu-ray player that doesn't have a problem finding my 1TB external that is attached. Do you think that it is even necessary to run Ubuntu Server for such a small set up? What sort of RAID setups can I run with UServer? I don't want to over-complicate this as I need it to be easily accessed by my wife if I am away on business. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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