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I want to setup a file server for my own personal use. It will be accessed from a simple home network by about 5 computers, mixed between Linux (Ubuntu, usually) and Windows.
I plan on using FreeNAS to host the network shares. While looking through FreeNAS's features, I noticed it supports iSCSI, something I don't have experience with.
Is iSCSI suitable for a small network? In the past I have tried Samba, FTP, SSH, etc, but none of these have worked as well as I would have liked on both Ubuntu and Windows.
Is iSCSI easy to setup (with FreeNAS), easy to connect to, and have good cross platform support?
Or is there a better choice?
Are you saying that multiple computers cannot connect to the same iSCSI Target? If that is the case it is a bit of a deal breaker. – Mike Cooper – 2009-09-13T20:17:30.420
1You can but the set up isn't worth it at least to me with five computers. With NFS/SAMBA you don't have to worry about much they take care of everything for you and you can easily switch between the two depending on what you want to do. – user10547 – 2009-09-13T22:36:36.590