Hello.
I have been having trouble finding a NAS program for XP pro that will give me the same features as something like FreeNAS. I need to keep the windows server on anyway and I would like to also use it as a NAS because most of the time is just sits there with most of its power unused. Does anyone know of any programs that I could run that would give me features like user quota management and password login? Possibly even web management?

Thanks

P.S. I dont want to run a virtual machine with FreeNAS or any linux versions. I am saving that as a last resort.

One way to go might be to setup a FTP server. It depends a bit on what you will be using it for.

I want to use it on other computers as a network drive so it will act like having another hard drive. FTP would be too slow for this.

I thought it was an interesting request so I did a bit of brief research. Just about all the good options are Linux based though, which you don't want, and the one Windows offering I came across was NASLite, but that doesn't offer quota or user management, (which makes me wonder exactly what it offers over straight XP Pro shared drives )

I'm not sure about quota management, but you could still do user management in XP, to the extent of setting up individual shares and mapping users to their own directory. Is your network set up as a domain? That might increase the options you have using straight XP. I guess you'll have to decide just how much of the NAS features you want, and what you're willing to do to get them.

Sorry I couldn't come up with something more useful.