I’ve used OpenMediaVault for years and liked it, but I’m just exploring some other options. I’ve got a new system with a Ryzen 370 and 890m iGPU, which Debian is fighting me on getting working. Meanwhile it looks like AMD is treating Ubuntu as a first class citizen for support. Just considering options, maybe Ubuntu plus Cockpit to abstract all the admin stuff?

  • ashx64@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I went for the simplest option

    1. Installed a distro (in this case Debian)
    2. Installed tailscale on the server, logged in
    3. Installed tailscale on my other devices, logged in
    4. Used sshfs to mount the desired directory on the server to my client
    5. SSH in once a week or so to run updates

    Found it very simple. Avoided the tedious setup of samba and samba had weird reliability issues for me when copying large files. Took a bit to learn how ssh works, but very much so worth it.