After a painful experience of the lack of support of a Seagate Goflex Home never updated
from smb1, and finding the inadequacies of a WD MyCloudUltra2, I'm ready to tackle
configuring an older Dell system as the NAS for my network. What do I need to configure
besides NFS and smb servers?
Basically, you should install Fedora Server Edition and include Windows Fileserver option.
It includes a nice Web based admin interface for easy going. If you just want filesharing
then you are done. You have just to add your users and organise where to store what files.
When you want additional capabilities, e.g. share ebooks library or local mail storage,
you must install additional software depending on your wishes. The Dell / Fedora
combination gives you a lot more options as any commercial NAS device I know (including
hight end Synology or Qnap).