XBMC on FreeNAS
#1
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Hi,

It is possible to install XBMC on FreeNAS ? Some, how to ?


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JProveta
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#2
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#3
freenas = freebsd? xbmc on freebsd is possible.
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#4
Thank you to all.

Anyone know of any how to?

Thanks,
JProveta
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#5
Why you would want have XBMC running on a NAS is beyond me but you would have to compile all deps needed and compile xbmc from the BSD branch, don't think everything is merged back to mainline.
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#6
Hi,

I see that, and I've checked that it is complicated.

Thanks for everything.
JProveta
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#7
Not too sure why you would want this either. NAS and HTPC have different purposes... it seems strange to me to combine the two and attach your NAS box (noisy with a bunch of spinning drives) to your TV.

Use the NAS to serve media and the HTPC to play media. Wink
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#8
Hi,

Is there a way to run XBMC live and FreeNAS on the same PC.
I was trying to find out if there is a way to build linux live with XBMC and FreeNAS in it. But the problem is how to load FreeNAS from a separate USB and yet not effect the XBMC live operation...
The reason I am going this route (having both NAS and HTPC on one PC) is because I don't want to have to build 2 PCs and rather have one PC ALWAYS which is always ON and serving both HTPC and NAS purpose.

Please let me know if there is another way to do this. But I do want to build both HTPC and NAS in one PC.

These are the hardware that I have for this build;
1. Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H
2. AMD Athlon II X2 245E
3. Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green SATA II 64 MB Cache QTY - 6
4. 4GB DDR2 800MHz
5. wired GB network
6. nMedia 6000B case
7. LG bluray drive
8. OCZ ZS Series 550W 80PLUS Bronze

Thanks.
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#9
You don't need FreeNAS to do what you want. Just have the drives in the same PC as XBMC, format them to any filesystem you want and store your content locally. You're making it more complicated than it needs to be.
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#10
If you want to run a NAS and XBMC on the same machine just use ubuntu. I highly doubt you'd need the extra grunt of any specialist OS.

FreeNAS is only good for storage, anything extra is just a novelty.
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#11
pumkinut,
Thanks. I want to have all my files/data on this HTPC/server which then allows to access them on the HTPC and also from any other PC in the network (this is where the NAS functionality is needed).

cosmicr,
Thanks. Installing XBMC in ubuntu would be fine. But in Ubuntu how can I get the same performance of a NAS functionality as FreeNAS? Is there any tutorial or something online that I can start learning from?

Thanks a lot!
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#12
You have no need for FreeNAS if you want both on the same box. Just install Ubuntu, XBMC, and SAMBA. SAMBA will allow for SMB/CIFS sharing of the drives to the rest of your network. You can administer the shares either by editing the smb.conf file or with SWAT which is a web based SMB/CIFS administration tool.

You're making this harder than it has to be.
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#13
What is NAS and what is good performance? As far as I can tell NAS is more or less a package to admin a file server+. You do not need NAS to create a file server and you do not install "NAS" on a multipurpose server/client.

SAMBA (SMB) probably gives you enough performance otherwise look into NFS, RAID and more expensive routers&cables.
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#14
In my experience SMB is dog slow. No where close to the gigabit speeds I should be getting. Going to try NFS soon on my new oneiric box.
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#15
Quote:In my experience SMB is dog slow. No where close to the gigabit speeds I should be getting.
Not many protocols will give you gigabit speed on a giga switch...and you do not need to watch a movie.
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