I want to access my files on the FreeBSD NAS via AFP and not SMB. SMB is too Windows-like ;-) First we nee Bonjour to multicast the DNS-name of the server. This is implemented by avahi. (Why does it nee to install so many X ports...?) 1# cd /usr/ports/net/avahi 2# make install clean Now start the daemons (remember to …

I have a FreeBSD server with a lot of out media on it. And I want to view this contents on my Apple TV. Plex and Plex Media Server (PMS) comes to mind. There is, however, not a port for FreeBSD of PMS. But fortunately there is good Linux support in `FreeBSD, so I was hoping to get support that way... Here is what I …

I found a blogpost describing the setup of the icon: http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/2008/04/06/avahi-finder-icons/ So create (if not already present) a file: /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/afp.service And put e.g. this in it: <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!---nxml---> <!DOCTYPE …

Every once in a while the ports software on the NAS needs to be "rebased" with the newest. I have made a script that I can run in a screen. It will update the ports tree and compile the new software: 1portsnap fetch extract update 2pkgdb -F 3portsdb -Fu 4portupgrade -ac

As I did a clean install and not an upgrade of my FreeBSD 8.2 to 9.0, I have to reconfigure everything from scratch :-) I have 4 Western Digital disks with data - all in RAID-Z. And because they are Western Digital, they have 4K sectors and don't work well with ZFS. So I also have encrypted them with geli - a standard …