Anyone used Openfiler or Freenas?

[VeNT]

I'm looking at setting up an old desktop as a NAS for the office atm, it's just to share about 50GB of docs etc on a workgroup network with no existing server
I've been looking at freenas SMEserver and openfiler. does anyone have ANY experience with these?
freenas seems simplest to use, openfiler does some fancy stuff I don't need and I've not been able to get SMEserver working in VM yet.

if anyone can give my any advice as to any issues they have had with any of these so I know what to look out for I would be very grateful!

 

[VeNT]

yeah thats somthing I was annoyed with openfiler, workgroup settings are under A/D for some reason! the layout is frankly crap, also I am not happy with having to pay for a manual, let alone a bad one!

 

[VeNT]

nope
currently we backup to USB hard disks using syncback but I'd hope for better from freenas