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On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:22 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I was wanting to have a NAS that also puts video on my TV. That way I |
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> can turn off my puter and still watch TV. It would be as much a media |
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> system as a NAS. I have a mobo, ram and I think I have a extra video |
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> card somewhere. I'd need a case, power supply and such. I'd also need |
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> a place to put all this which is going to be interesting. I'd want |
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> plenty of hard drive bays tho. I found a fractal 804 case that caught |
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> my eye. Can't recall all the details tho. |
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> Still, needs money and right now, I got to many other coals in the |
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> fire. Plus, I'm trying to figure out this crypttab thing. From what |
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> I've read, it is for opening encrypted drives during boot up which is |
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> not really what I want. I can boot and login into my KDE without |
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> anything encrypted being mounted. Kinda like this new setup really. |
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> I'll be so glad when fiber internet gets here. I think I'm going with |
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> the 500Mb/sec plan. Costs about the same as my current 1.5Mb/sec plan. |
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> lol |
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> Dale |
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I believe all of that can be done on TrueNAS, and most likely with |
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any of the prepackaged boxes like Synology, but I've not do it myself. |
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Most modern flatscreens can access NAS servers and play video |
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and or music over the network so the NAS server itself |
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need not have a GPU. I did put a VGA in both of mine as building |
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them is easier, but it wasn't strictly necessary. TrueNAS can be |
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built on a headless machine if you know the IP address. |
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As for FreeBSD, they have 'jails' which I think are more or less |
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chroot environments, so you can put whatever MythTV is called |
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these days in a jail and run it from there. People do that with |
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DNS, network monitors and all sorts of things. (Assuming |
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you have enough compute power.) |
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No need to do any of this now. It's good that you're thinking |
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about solutions so that when the money comes along you'll |
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be ready. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |