![]() Reading up on it rather than having it set up for me. ![]() Way more practical and efficient than the girlfriend calling for a WAN that lasts who knows how long. So I just jammed it all out there worried about what obvious point I was forgetting to include. I was too focused on getting the technical info out to people who I view as guru's. So kudos to all of the helpful folks here.ġ. And I have also noticed as I have browsed forms here in search of knowledge that senior form members have been very helpful to noobs like myself. I'm guessing this is child’s play for some here on this site. I'm not in a hurry and only hope to make a little progress towards this goal each night after work. ![]() Port Forwarding- open a single port or a range of portsĪctiontec GT701-WG with lots of features and settings. Virtual Server- allows opening a single port If you give me values to enter into certain fields then I can probably follow.įreeNaAS server 192.168.1.10 (static) everything working on my LANĭ-Link DIR-825 Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit Router which has features like: For example if you tell me to forward ports I have no idea how to do this. (I'm still learning all of the acronyms used in networking). Especially if they are in layman’s terms, and not in Networkese. Any instructions I could get to set this up would be greatly appreciated. But I'm sure I'm missing some settings in my NAS and have no idea what to do with my router and DSL modem. I have read the FreeNAS user guide and have a rough idea how to set up SSH with a user account for her. I do not have a static WAN IP (just learned what that is) so she will need to call me each time she wants to use it so I can give her my latest WAN IP. I would like my girlfriend to be able to upload and download photos to it from her house so my next step is to enable SSH and try to get my router and DSL modem to allow her remote access using Filezilla. I am happy with the whole thing and look forward to putting a huge amount of movies, music, and photos on it, and streaming them to my home theater computer. It has been a real learning process since I know nothing about networking and dont speak Networkese. All the while with out loosing a couple of test video files on the temp drives. It all came together a week ago and I have had fun over the last week getting it up and running, creating user profiles, deleting users, enabling services, getting it running and then fooling with it until it breaks, resetting it and getting it all going again. Which I'm hoping will give me something like 8TB usable storage with ZFS. On the way are 6x 2TB SATA Advanced Format drives. I have temporarily installed 2 500GB SATA drives just to test setting up and getting the system going. 64-bit FreeNAS 8.0.3 installed on a 8 GB USB Drive. It is currently running on a SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SMi-2-O motherboard with AMD Opteron 1218 2.6ghz, 2GB DDR2 800 SDRAM (soon to have 8GB DDR2 800 SDRAM), Dual-port Gigabit LAN/Ethernet, 6 SATA2 3.0 Gb/s HDD connectors on the motherboard, Plus 2 PCI-e SATA cards allowing for 6 more drives. It is enclosed in a large well ventilated gaming tower with six fans. If you have more questions about FreeNAS and ZFS, I would suggest doing more reading before going off on comments to the effect of "no file server needs this much RAM".I am a total noob with this stuff, however I'm good with hardware and have built myself a very nice NAS box. ![]() I use the ZFS "exporting" feature to back up my data to an off-site ZFS system. I use three 2TB drives in a three-way mirror and have separate datasets (with separate shadow copy settings) for documents, photos, movies, and music. I run a FreeNAS server precisely for N-way mirroring and maintaining shadow copies of my data. ![]() None of the benefits of ZFS/FreeNAS are mentioned in the article, such as the ability to do N-way mirrors, software implementations of hardware RAID setups, datasets, shadow copies, etc, nor why these features can be helpful or essential components in a comprehensive backup strategy. As to the intense hardware (mostly RAM) requirements, a more detailed understanding/explanation of ZFS is necessary. For one thing, FreeNAS is built off of FreeBSD, not Linux. I agree with DragonPoo that this article is seriously lacking. ![]()
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