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RPi NAS: Extras – Adding and Removing Users
This is a brief post about adding and removing users to and from our NAS after the initial setup. There are lots of websites showing how to add a user to Samba. I just want to point out something that’s worth knowing when testing the setup of the new user. Adding a User You can…
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RPi NAS: Extras – Greyhole Trash
Immediately removing deleted files from the NAS can be dangerous. If you accidentally delete a file then there’s no easy way to recover it. This can be prevented by using a Trash, which is enabled by default in Greyhole. In this post we’ll look at different options of using Greyhole’s Trash. By default Greyhole uses…
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RPi NAS: Extras – Limiting Data Corruption
Data corruption can occur at any point when using the NAS. In this post we’ll look at a couple of simple measures to reduce the risk of losing data due to data corruption. In this post we’re going to focus on silent data corruption . In this case silent means that there are errors in…
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RPi NAS: Part 10 Examples of Share Permissions
We’ve installed Greyhole and we know how to mount Samba shares on our system. In the video of the 8th post we only created one share to which everybody has access. In this post we’ll look at a few ways of restricting access to Samba shares for different users. A little preface: I’m writing this…
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RPi NAS: Part 9 Mounting Shares on Various Systems
In the video in the previous post we installed Greyhole on our Raspberry Pi. We also set up a simple Samba share. In this post we’re going to mount Samba shares on a few different operating systems. Mounting Samba shares is not difficult and there are lots of resources available online. So this post is…
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RPi NAS: Part 8 Software Setup [Video]
In the previous posts we covered the hardware related aspects that matter for this NAS, now we can finally set up our system! This post contains a video that goes through the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi and installing and configuring Greyhole. Setting up the NAS involves a lot of steps, which are…
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RPi NAS: Part 7 RPi Model
In the previous posts we covered most hardware-related aspects of our NAS. So far we’ve always assumed that we’re going to use a Raspberry Pi 4b. But what changes if we use a RPi 3b or RPi 5? Unfortunately I was a bit too slow when the Raspberry Pi 5 became available in my country…
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RPi NAS: Part 6 Power Supply
We’re almost done with our discussion about the hardware we’ll use for our NAS. In this post we’ll have a brief look at the power supply for the Raspberry Pi. About Power Supplies I’ve used an official Raspberry Pi power supply for all the tests we’ve done so far. Since our (powered) USB Hub has…
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RPi NAS: Part 5 Storage Drives
In the previous post we selected a USB Hub for our NAS. But before we can save the data that arrives via Ethernet we have to pick a drive on which to store the Samba shares. In this post we’ll investigate which transfer speeds we can expect for HDDs and SSDs. Then we’ll pick one…
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RPi NAS: Part 4 USB Hub
Our data has safely reached the RPi via some network connection. Before we can save it onto a hard- or solid-state drive we have to think about how those drives will be connected to the Raspberry Pi. I’m sure you’ve noticed that we have two USB 3 ports available on the Raspberry Pi 4b/5 but…