Are there utilities built into the FreeNas to synrchonize my windows folders? Yes / no - what are they called, please?
The data folders on my local workstation, backed-up / synchroized with ones stored on the NAS. I do not wish to back up my c:\windows directories or operating system files.What do you mean by sync windows folders?
This is over my head, I am not familiar with "ad server" or "STH". I use bittorrent for downloading large files (and have been known to download a video or two - lol). I know what a VM is, I do not know what I would use that for if FREENAS itself is a file-serving appliance. "nextcloud" sounds like to me something like off-site storage backup, which I want to do eventually after I am confident my freeNas has been optimized and configured tightly.What do you mean by sync windows folders?
You can export SMB shares as user home directories similar to a AD Server and that one would be mapped to you local user folder on several windows boxes if set up correctly...
Else you could run sth like bittorrent sync or own/nextcloud in a vm on top of freenas...
Ok, thank you. I do not know what rsync is yet, but I can look up what that is and how to use it. Thank you for suggestion.you can also rsync the document folder to your freenas server.
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The way I like to think of Owncloud/Nextcloud is that it's just like Dropbox, Google Drive, etc., except the backend storage IS your NAS. The only real hiccup is that since it's 100% open source, there's no easy prebuilt web address that you can point to that always works. Not a huge issue for folks like us to setup Dynamic DNS and open a port on your firewall, but it's not as friendly to the "end user" types.Nectcloud/Resilio and many others are programs designed/capable to keep local folders in sync with folders on servers or other client computers, that why I thought it might be an option for you (if there for example were multiple users).