[Tutorial] Installing MinimServer on FreeNAS or FreeBSD

[lostinsound]

(25-07-2017 19:09)airflow Wrote:  

(24-07-2017 18:16)lostinsound Wrote:  Anyway, thanks again for being patient with me and helping me get this figured out. I'm really enjoying being able to stream music without needing my PC to be on.

Great news, I am happy it works now for you! :-) Just a question out of curiosity: Are you using FreeNAS or FreeBSD? And is it a pre-built out-of-the-box NAS you bought or self-made?

Thanks! I upgraded to a new PC recently and decided to convert my old one into a NAS using FreeNAS. It's just an hp desktop computer I bought in 2009, and I just wiped the 1TB hard drive and installed FreeNAS onto a USB drive that I plugged into it. It's only a single drive right now so I don't have any RAID set up or anything.

I mainly picked FreeNAS because of the built in Subsonic plugin that lets me stream remotely, but I'm really happy I could get MinimServer working as well to stream locally.