NFS or iSCSI - which filesystem to choose ?

If they are Windows PC's use samba. Samba works with Apple as well and there is AFP too.

Use ext4 for filesystem.

SAMBA, NFS, AFP = are types of fileservers for file sharing
Minidlna, Plex, XBMC = media servers. Minidlna and Plex are good for DLNA. XBMC works with SAMBA shares.

How To's/Tutorials:
http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1289

You should start by getting 3rd Part Plugins installed if you haven't already:
http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1169

Zitat von "willri"

I found that the NFS an iSCSI filesystems are very similar. both simulate a local drive.

Now I wonder which filesystem I should choose ? What are the advantages / disadvantages of both
solutions ?

I'm will use my OMV as a Home-NAS for saving the data of our pc's and in the future maybe streaming media.

Can I also share folders with NFS/iscsi filesystem or should I prefer therefore the samba server/filesystem ?

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You are mixing things. NFS and iSCSI are not filesystems. NFS is a protocol to share local data. iSCSI is a protocol to send SCSI commands over TCP/IP. With NFS you have files stored locally that you "export" to clients in the network. Those files are also locally accessible on the server. With iSCSI you just create block devices that can be accessed over the network by one (or more) clients. Files are not locally accessible, and unless you use clustering or a clustered file system, you cannot access the files on more than one client at the same time without the risk of data corruption.

Ext3 and Ext4 are filesystems you can use.

If I were you, I'd just use Samba as well.