Category Archives: FreeNAS

FreeNAS links, howtos and video

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Gerard

The following are some links I’ve saved up with regards to FreeNAS, the FreeBSD/m0n0wall based, open source Network Attached Storage operating system. 1. More Uses For Old PCs and Laptops The Telegraph.co.uk has an article on how to re-use that … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS 0.69.1 (Omnius) released

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Gerard

Volker Theile has announced the release of FreeNAS 0.69.1 (Omnius), an updated version of the FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services. Majors changes:  Upgrade Samba to 3.0.34.  Upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2.  Upgrade mDNSResponder to 1.08.6.  Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.22.  … Continue reading →

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Network Administration with FreeBSD 7 (free chapter)

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Gerard

Packt Publishing who have published Network Administration with FreeBSD 7 have made a sample chapter (Chapter 11 – Network Configuration) available as a free PDF download) Download here. There’s also a free chapter available of Learning FreeNAS.

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FreeNAS on VirtualBox – Installation

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Gerard

James Cochran has put together a post on how to install FreeNAS within VirtualBox, Sun’s virtual PC software.

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FreeNAS articles on FrugalTech

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Gerard

FrugalNYC has been using FreeNAS a lot over the last few weeks and put together some useful posts: 9 great things about FreeNAS 9 Reasons To Use FreeNAS At Work 11 FreeNAS Tips Data Recovery using FreeNAS Are you using … Continue reading →

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Open source NAS device using FreeNAS and iSCSI drives (howtos & video))

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Gerard

Dave Lawlor has put together some really easy-to-follow instructions on how to install and configure FreeNAS. FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) … Continue reading →

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Making a 4 terabyte server with FreeNAS

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Gerard

Thaed shows in this video step-by-step how he’s giving his old Pentium 4 a new lease of life as his home’s file server. On this video FreeNAS 0.686 is installed; currently FreeNAS 0.69 is available which is looking a whole lot … Continue reading →

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Released: FreeNAS 0.69 Kwisatz Haderach

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Gerard

The FreeNAS Team has released FreeNAS 0.69 Kwisatz Haderach (revision 4276) today. Congratulations to the team for their hard work! Links: Release Announcement | Full changelog | Download | Website The following additions and changes have been made since 0.686.4.  Majors changes: Add … Continue reading →

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