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Make FreeNAS 8 Do More: Configuring FTP, TFTP & SSH Services
By Gary Sims ⋅ February 8, 2012 ⋅ One comment
This tutorial goes beyond disks and sharing. All you need is a FreeNAS 8 system with one volume to learn how to configure FTP, TFTP, and SSH services.
Building ZFS Based Network Attached Storage Using FreeNAS 8
By Gary Sims ⋅ January 4, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments
ZFS is an excellent choice for a high end NAS solution. In this tutorial Gary Sims will walk you through building a ZFS based NAS using FreeNAS 8. You’ll learn how to create a ZFS volume and datasets within it. The article will also examine the advantages of using snapshots.
Build a Simple NAS Setup with FreeNAS 8
By Gary Sims ⋅ December 21, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments
This tutorial guides you through an installation of FreeNAS 8 on a simple system using two hard drives for a fully functional network attached storage solution.
How to Setup iSCSI Drive Using FreeNAS
By Dave Lawlor ⋅ January 19, 2009 ⋅ 33 comments
iSCSI allows client machines to send SCSI commands to remote storage servers like FreeNAS. Learn how iSCSI initiators and iSCSI targets work, how to setup iSCSI target drive on FreeNas server and how to setup iSCSI initiator on Vista.
Build Your Own Open Source NAS Device Using FreeNAS – Part 2
By Dave Lawlor ⋅ January 5, 2009 ⋅ 20 comments
As we learned last week, NAS provides hard disk space that attaches to a data network and works as a file server We took a closer look at FreeNAS — a free open source NAS software that supports CIFS/SB, FTP, NFS, RSYNC SSH, AFP, Unison, UPnP, ISCSI, local and Microsoft Active Directory authentication, SoftRAID, disk [...]
Build Your Own Open Source NAS Device Using FreeNAS – Part 1
By Dave Lawlor ⋅ December 29, 2008 ⋅ 16 comments
NAS stands for Network Attached Storage, and is basically a box full of hard disk space that attaches to a data network. Its sole job is to be a file server to as many protocols as you want to configure. If you’re anything like me, you have multiple computers in your house of all types [...]