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I want to set up a storage server for my home. I use many devices with a range of operating systems.

I am wondering if it is possible to set it up in a way such that I'd be able to access it from all of my devices on the LAN seamlessly as if it was a part of their system. For example in windows it would appear as another disk, in linux it would be just another directory, wherever I mount it. I would like to go a step further and have it available for android as well. This sounds like something impossible to me, but is it?

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    There are multiple file systems supported by multiple operating systems, which OSs you wish to use will direct you to which file systems can be used. – Ramhound Feb 21 '17 at 15:38
  • SMB/CIFS works natively on Windows, is supported with Samba under Linux, and there are even Android clients. Of course it will match Windows best. – dirkt Feb 21 '17 at 16:22
  • You would probably also need to set up some kind of auto-mount for the drives on boot, but take a look here: http://superuser.com/questions/45130/cross-platform-file-system?rq=1 for more info on different File Systems for cross platform. Not sure if this is a really a duplicate of that question but has some good info you might find useful – Sc00T Feb 21 '17 at 17:14

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It seems that you're just creating a NAS for your local network. You can export filesystems via NFS and CIFS (to pick the two most obvious protocols). That means that the answer to your question is Yes, you can.

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