FreeNAS Project

[D.Biba]

Hey guys, I've used Nas4free for some time but i'm a new FreeNAS user. I recently stumbled upon an HP Proliant ML350 G5 with dual Quad core Xeons and 16GB RAM. A lot of my friends live in the same apartment building that I do, and we're all on the same network so i wanted to create a NAS to host all of my Media (Movies, TVs, Music, ROMs) so that everyone has access. The process of creating users and managing permissions is easy enough however this is what i'm thinking. I want full access to everything, but everyone else should only have read access to all the media. However i want everyone to have access to a folder that they can drop a piece of media into to add to the media pool. Is there a way to automate the renaming and moving of the media into the correct folder? Thanks in advance.

 

[mattbbpl]

We do this all the time in my day job using Zena/Windows Scheduled Tasks and the like.

Windows Scheduled Tasks could be used here if you're more familiar with that. That would keep it off the NAS itself.

If you want it on the NAS, here's some guidance:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...a-folder-and-move-files-based-on-rules.42196/

From experience, I will say you need to be careful about edge cases with these type of things. What if your job spawns while a file is in the process of being moved? What if the source machine dies before the file is done copying? What if the transfer freezes (will that prevent your job from processing other files? Is that desirable?) What if your roommate is mad at you for not doing the dishes and decides to upload a malicious script/application? (The fact that you want much of the system readonly may or may not imply a lack of total trust)

Just a few of the things to think about/handle within your logic.