What file sharing protocol should i use?

[TheNoob19]

Good day.

I want my clients to access my server disk and then let them be able to write on it(virtually) but the main server disk will not be overwrited (affected) by the clients.

 

[Artion]

Hi, it's not very clear what you're trying to accomplish. Could you explain it more?

 

[TheNoob19]

Hi, it's not very clear what you're trying to accomplish. Could you explain it more?

so i have an internet cafe setup. I want my client pc's to have the same games, i would have done diskless setup but budget is low and my clients hardware are not similar. I would like my clients disks to have the same games because updating one pc at a time is very tedious and even using ftp protocol programs still takes a lot of time. So heres the question. What file sharing protocol should i use to be able to share my freenas server disk to my each of my client pc's and to let them be able to use it and modify it within their individual pc BUT the server disk will not be rewritten as it is the mastercopy and only a specific PC can edit the Freenas Server disk.

 

[anodos]

so i have an internet cafe setup. I want my client pc's to have the same games, i would have done diskless setup but budget is low and my clients hardware are not similar. I would like my clients disks to have the same games because updating one pc at a time is very tedious and even using ftp protocol programs still takes a lot of time. So heres the question. What file sharing protocol should i use to be able to share my freenas server disk to my each of my client pc's and to let them be able to use it and modify it within their individual pc BUT the server disk will not be rewritten as it is the mastercopy and only a specific PC can edit the Freenas Server disk.

Perhaps you need to set up a cache server for your game downloads. Then you will only download the game once, and your client computers can just pull the cached copy over the LAN. I believe you can use pfsense to do this through squid. In the long run, this will probably require less setup and maintenance.

 

[TheNoob19]

Perhaps you need to set up a cache server for your game downloads. Then you will only download the game once, and your client computers can just pull the cached copy over the LAN. I believe you can use pfsense to do this through squid. In the long run, this will probably require less setup and maintenance.

so how do i do this? i only have basic knowledge. and is squid and pfsense free?

and can this be also done in freenas or not?

 

[anodos]

so how do i do this? i only have basic knowledge. and is squid and pfsense free?

and can this be also done in freenas or not?

Pfsense is free.

 

[TheNoob19]

Pfsense is free.

but can freenas do this or nah?

 

[anodos]

but can freenas do this or nah?

FreeNAS is a NAS appliance. It serves a different purpose on a network. You could set up FreeNAS with separate SMB shares for each client computer then set up a cronjob to copy files from your "master" SMB share to the client shares at specified intervals. See docs for more information. http://doc.freenas.org/11/freenas.html

 

[TheNoob19]

FreeNAS is a NAS appliance. It serves a different purpose on a network. You could set up FreeNAS with separate SMB shares for each client computer then set up a cronjob to copy files from your "master" SMB share to the client shares at specified intervals. See docs for more information. http://doc.freenas.org/11/freenas.html

well, thanks for the info. sorry for a noob ask