This is the beginnings of my Network Attached Storage (NAS) Project. I had this idea for a few years, but the money for it went to other things. The main purpose of this box is to provide access to my media (movies, music, etc) along with documents and such to any computer in the house. The idea is to use FreeNAS for this box, but I have found FreeNAS is somewhat lacking, so I need to hack up some of it’s code to be a little more versatile (don’t worry, changes will be submitted back to the project).

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