I'm looking for a LAN application that lets me put files in a SMB folder and provides a web interface (URL) to download these files. I only need this for LAN use, so I can pretty much ignore all security/login/encryption/https.

Does something like that exist?

I have Open Media Vault, but that doesn't seem to be one of its services. It only has FTP, SMB, DLNA.

I'm getting ready to start my journey in learning to use OpnSense. It's going to be running on a Dell Optiplex with one onboard network port and one 4-port PCIe network card. I might virtualize OpnSense as a VM on proxmox, since I run proxmox in my other server box.

I'm thinking of keeping my existing router (a ddwrt router) and putting the OpnSense box behind that router. So the WAN side of OpenSense (one of the four PCIe ports) will be DHCPed from the ddwrt router, and I'd also have a cable from ddwrt router to the onboard ethernet port for interacting with proxmox hypervisor from the outer lan. So if I mess things up, I can always manage it from the outer lan.

And as I slowly figure things out, I'll put devices onto the OpenSense LAN.

I'm just not sure what kind of issues I'll have being double NAT'd. I don't really have any services running that I need to get to from the internet. I think I can talscale myself in even in the double NAT situation.

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I'm going to set out on installing OpnSense for the first time. I see some people put OpnSense on Proxmox and pass through a pcie network card. Besides the power of backing up and restoring, are there other advantages to this?

My planned OpnSense box is an old Dell Optiplex. It has the normal ethernet port on the motherboard as well as a 4-port PCIe network card that I added. So I'd probably use the PCIe network ports for OpenSense, and reserve the onboard ethernet port for troubleshooting if I royally mess up.

I'm still a proxmox newbie, but I think I can manage the PCIe passthrough. I'm just not sure what other complications that will introduce to my OpnSense and networking learning curve. So I thought I'd ask first and see if some of the disadvantages or advantages would push me one way or the other. I'm afraid of locking myself out of OpnSense because of incorrectly configured networking as I'm learning.

I have a Hisense TV. I was wondering if there's an easy way to firewall their TV so that it only has access to Google Store and Netflix? Make it so the TV can't reach anything else?

I don't currently have any firewall. I have ddwrt as my main router. I can whip up a pihole if needed.

Wondering if anyone has a feel for the power efficiency of older server hardware. I'm reading posts from people who say they have R710 with lots of hard drive and it IDLES at 160W with 8 hard drives. So...if you take the hard drives out of the equation, it's probably still like 120W. Is that just how inefficient old computers are? Kinda like incandescent bulbs are less efficient than LED bulbs? How efficient is the R730 compared to the R710?

My 6 year old desktop computer is 60W idle with a GPU, and 30W idle without the GPU. Seems like a huge difference. It's like $70 more per year to run a R710 than my old desktop with a GPU. Is that correct?