Comments on: Build Your Own Open Source NAS Device Using FreeNAS – Part 2

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:18:58 +0000

@David Earle
There is a document: http://www.instructables.com/id/FreeNAS_as_a_Print_Server/

combine this with the instruction at the freenas forum.
Worked for me: Canon MP600

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:38:34 +0000

Thanks for the step by step. Setting up freeNAS was very straight forward. However, I ran into issues trying to configure 2 drives properly for RAID 1. Most other help pages I visited on this subject were a little vague on the sequence of steps. Yours were spot on and we’re RAIDing away now for the photo library.

Many Thanks,

Lewis

By: Hitesh

Hitesh — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:18:16 +0000

Hi,

This is awesome tutorial! I love it.

This is what exactly I was looking for.

I want to setup free NAS server and storage 1 TB using this tutorial) with AIX 5.3 that i can support 2 VIO server and couple of LPARs.

What is the best way to implement this with AIX. I saw windows client were used to access to drives.

what do I need on AIX to see the ISCSI disk.

what storage is supported by free NAS and AIX OS.

Please guide…

Again, this is really nice tutorial I ever seen.

You help will be much appreciated.

Thanks
Hitesh

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:58:05 +0000

Hi Dave,

This morning i was looking for a cost affective NAS Solution and came across your Article on Build Your Own Open Source NAS Device Using FreeNAS.
and i will have to say it was one of the best tutorials i have seen in a very long time, you get straight to the point & deliver end results with little fuss.

I hope to see many more article in the future.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:33:22 +0000

Rock and Roll! I just set mine up.

1.5 TB in Raid 1 (3 TB on two drives) with a 30GB boot drive (couldn’t get my bios to boot from a USB key).

Now I need to figure out how to make it accessible from the web so I can host my media files and stream when I travel.

By: venom

venom — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:02:34 +0000

Is it possible to add a external usb hard drive to FREENAS………….If so please explain and THANK YOU in advance.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:48:18 +0000

Hello,

Thanks. However, can you please talk about how to do authentication with FreeNAS shares? I am having problems connecting to FreeNAS with my Mac and I would really like to have authentication enabled, not just Anonymous access. I can’t find anything on authentication other than to manually edit the /var/etc/samba.conf file.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:18:54 +0000

I am having a bit of trouble, I used your tutorial to set up freenas and my computer recognises that the NAS is there, but says it only has 78 MB, (it has 6 1TB drives in it) Any suggestions on where to start, i am racking my brain trying to figure this out and i am getting nowhere

By: Hasan

Hasan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:55:49 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for Tutorial.

I have a question I hope you can help.

If I have mount point “Data” , and I want to add more space to it, what would you do? … is it possible?

The reason I want the same mount point space to be expanded, is that it will be used by an archiving software as a mapped drive.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:32:22 +0000

Hi,

Just set it up. Works like a charm. Thanks for the tutorial. No complaints.

Thanks again.

By: Morely Dotes

Morely Dotes — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:57:38 +0000

“HarshReality Says:

Yoiur neglecting to mention that the embedded OS looses all changes when a power loss happens and the way to recover from such an event.”

Mine does not lose all changes, unless the power failure happens before I hit Apply Changes.

In any event, after hitting Apply Changes, exporting the configuration to an XML file on another device (a USB thumb drive would serve, the XML file is tiny) would allow you to restore the changes if they did get lost.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:27:54 +0000

Hi Dave,

Great tutorial! I’ve set up my FreeNAS following your tutorial and it seems to work great! I’m using RSYNC and Delta Copy to make incremental backups to of my wifes Laptop running XP to a Raid1 setup and using RSYNC to then copy to an external USB drive. Now what? I have no idea how to restore files should her laptop harddrive crash. Any thoughts you anyone else can share? I find all kinds of stuff on the web about backing up, but nothing about restoring.

By: Oscar K

Oscar K — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:24:03 +0000

Hi Dave

Just finished setting up a NAS by using your tutorial….It works great the system is up and running in no time (1 hour).
…thanks…

/Oscar

By: David Earle

David Earle — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:56:05 +0000

I’m enjoying these articles and have set up my server using them. I had tried a similar posting for an earlier version but was unable to make it work. I’m waiting for the installment relating to Windows (XP & Vista) client interfaces. I’ve been able to do a direct backup using DeltaCopy Client in Vista but have been unable to do a task started backup.

A tutorial on setting up USB printer server functions would be nice, if that’s possible with freenas.

Thanks for the articles.

David

By: HarshReality

HarshReality — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:19:43 +0000

Yoiur neglecting to mention that the embedded OS looses all changes when a power loss happens and the way to recover from such an event.