Is this possible?

[Samvmp]

So my question is, Can I run a NAS or file server or something in the background of my main home PC.

This would need to work across Windows and Mac, running on a Windows 10 computer. The end idea would be to have 2 drives running Raid 1 in the computer that are then accessible on the network to both host my work files and to be a backup location for my laptop and PCs.

 

Has anyone done this? does anyone know of a way of doing this?

[79wjd]

Create two VMs -- one for the server and one for your system? 

 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

10 minutes ago, Samvmp said:

So my question is, Can I run a NAS or file server or something in the background of my main home PC.

This would need to work across Windows and Mac, running on a Windows 10 computer. The end idea would be to have 2 drives running Raid 1 in the computer that are then accessible on the network to both host my work files and to be a backup location for my laptop and PCs.

 

Has anyone done this? does anyone know of a way of doing this?

Right click on the folder you want to share and open the properties menu. Then open the sharing settings and share the folder. To copy files to just open the network in the other computer in windows explorer.

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Create two VMs -- one for the server and one for your system? 

 

 

 

Don't do this too much work for a basic file share.

[aidenrelkoff]

you can do that with windows homegroup.... make a network drive and give all users on the homegroup access

[Samvmp]

7 minutes ago, aidenrelkoff said:

you can do that with windows homegroup.... make a network drive and give all users on the homegroup access

But would Homegroup all access for Mac computers.

[aidenrelkoff]

1 minute ago, Samvmp said:

But would Homegroup all access for Mac computers.

no it wont, forgot about that.

 

there are software things that will allow you to make your own file server, and you can even use a VPN with them to access your files remotely 

[Samvmp]

18 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Don't do this too much work for a basic file share.

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Create two VMs -- one for the server and one for your system? 

I also think that may be a little over complicated just to host some files on a network, also headroom would be a concern.

[brwainer]

normal Windows folder sharing, available in all versions of Windows AFAIK, uses SMB - which Mac OSX also knows how to use. My college's video editing labs had iMacs with a Windows Storage Server running SMB shares, it worked well.

[Samvmp]

On 2016-02-16 at 10:29 PM, brwainer said:

normal Windows folder sharing, available in all versions of Windows AFAIK, uses SMB - which Mac OSX also knows how to use. My college's video editing labs had iMacs with a Windows Storage Server running SMB shares, it worked well.

I thought about that as well, at first I thought it would not work for what i wanted as i could not seem to add users form the mac to the permissions on the first attempt, and I did not want it to be open read and right for everyone as the information i wanted to put on it would be work confidential type stuff.

However after your suggestion I tried again and found that i could share it for the windows user only, and then connect to in on the mac(and other windows) as the original windows users.

All in all it works great, i highly recommend this to anyone looking to do some home network storage, it someone secure, decent speed, and as much storage as you can fit in your case all without the cost of a NAS, you can RAD the drives if your system supports it as well.

[brwainer]

3 hours ago, Samvmp said:

I thought about that as well, at first I thought it would not work for what i wanted as i could not seem to add users form the mac to the permissions on the first attempt, and I did not want it to be open read and right for everyone as the information i wanted to put on it would be work confidential type stuff.

However after your suggestion I tried again and found that i could share it for the windows user only, and then connect to in on the mac(and other windows) as the original windows users.

All in all it works great, i highly recommend this to anyone looking to do some home network storage, it someone secure, decent speed, and as much storage as you can fit in your case all without the cost of a NAS, you can RAD the drives if your system supports it as well.

unless you set up Active Directory or some other centralized authentication system, the usernames and passwords used to access a Windows share are always those local to the server itself. So normally you create a username and password on the server for every employee that should have access, and when you connect from OSX you provide the same credentials.