Anyone using Cockpit
Is anyone using (or used) Cockpit for NAS purpose? Background: ----------- If you can install a new distro for your NAS, then OpenMediaVault would be an answer. But, if - you already have data on disks and they are already mounted, - you are doing few other things (not related to NAS), then you just want GUI frontend to manage NFS/SMB only. Google AI says, "Cockpit". And, you say, ???
On 2026-01-30 15:04, William Park via Talk wrote:
Is anyone using (or used) Cockpit for NAS purpose? I use Cockpit on and off to manage my storage node. Technically its a NAS but its not like any of the NAS software/systems out there.
Cockpit will do basic management on a system but it is not very fancy. Something like https://www.truenas.com/download/ is lightyears more sophisticated.
Background: ----------- If you can install a new distro for your NAS, then OpenMediaVault would be an answer. But, if
- you already have data on disks and they are already mounted, - you are doing few other things (not related to NAS),
then you just want GUI frontend to manage NFS/SMB only. Google AI says, "Cockpit". And, you say, ??? ------------------------------------ Description: GTALUG Talk Unsubscribe via Talk-unsubscribe@lists.gtalug.org Start a new thread: talk@lists.gtalug.org This message archived at https://lists.gtalug.org/archives/list/talk@lists.gtalug.org/message/NC6II6J...
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I use Cockpit to manage an Ubuntu Server LTS system that serves as a NAS (ie, Samba server) as well as a media server (Plex, Sonaar) and a few other things. I don't tax Cockpit very much, it allows me to view the system status and manage basic performance, software updates, and systemd services. It's offloaded most of the things I'd usually do by ssh. As a bookmark on my desktop's browser it makes management very accessible. I do trust manually doing `apt` rather than its own package management, which sometimes freeze when the system is fine. I can't speak for other solutions that may be newer or flashier because Cockpit has been good enough, and it's in the Ubuntu repository so Cockpit itself is easy to install and set up. On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 3:04 PM William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Is anyone using (or used) Cockpit for NAS purpose?
Background: ----------- If you can install a new distro for your NAS, then OpenMediaVault would be an answer. But, if
- you already have data on disks and they are already mounted, - you are doing few other things (not related to NAS),
then you just want GUI frontend to manage NFS/SMB only. Google AI says, "Cockpit". And, you say, ??? ------------------------------------ Description: GTALUG Talk Unsubscribe via Talk-unsubscribe@lists.gtalug.org Start a new thread: talk@lists.gtalug.org This message archived at https://lists.gtalug.org/archives/list/talk@lists.gtalug.org/message/NC6II6J...
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