Connect Pi with Ethener HDD

[manulinger]

Hello

i have a old Icy Box nas4220-b and i dont like the usebility of the firmware.


is it possible to connect the NAS with the Raspberry Pi and use the Raspberry with Samba Server as NAS?


thanks

manu

[Tarcas]

If it has a USB connection that you can connect to the Pi's USB port, then yes. Or if you're willing to connect the Pi to the current network NAS server, then you can "reshare" it from the Pi. Not sure what the advantage of this would be though.

You would first mount the Icy box on the Pi, either by USB or network.
Then you would install and configure Samba to share that same data.
Then you connect to the Pi's share from another computer (Windows, Linux, OSX, etc. Shouldn't matter.)

You will find plenty of tutorials on following each of these steps. Pi is no different from other Linux distributions for any of this, so if you find a Debian or Ubuntu tutorial that uses the command line, that should work perfectly. GUI might get a little... gooey.

[manulinger]

i thougth about the same way but didnt find something with the keywords "raspberry ethernet and hdd".
Maybe i get some results when i search for Ubuntu or Linux tutorials

thanks

[ghans]

Better search terms would be IMHO "setting up a NAS with X" or
"sharing files with X" where X is one of Ubuntu/Debian/Raspberry
Pi/Raspbian .


ghans

[Tarcas]

i thougth about the same way but didnt find something with the keywords "raspberry ethernet and hdd".
Maybe i get some results when i search for Ubuntu or Linux tutorials

thanks

For most things you don't need a Pi-specific tutorial. Raspbian is based on Debian, so a Debian tutorial is almost always going to work. Ubuntu is also based on Debian, so those tutorials generally work as well. Red Hat and Fedora use a different package management system, so as long as you remember to use apt-get instead of apm, those typically work too.
The only Pi-specific things I've used are GPIO and CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) over HDMI. Pretty much everything else works on any Linux computer, so long as it's compiled for the right architecture.