If your computer doesn't have the ability to boot from USB, you'll have to follow some slightly tweaked instructions here and you won't be able to use one of your drives for storage. If the computer on which you're installing FreeNAS is bit capable, grab the bit image; otherwise, you'll want to grab the bit image from the bit tab along the top.
Here's what you need to do:. Mac users : To install FreeNAS on your flash drive, you'll need an app called Keka , as well as a little command line work:. Download the FreeNAS image archive and right-click on it. Choose "Open With Keka" from the menu. Insert your flash drive. Click the Erase tab and format it, ensuring it only has one partition. It doesn't matter what you format it as, we're going to overwrite it in a minute. Unmount the partition after its created.
Note the path of your USB drive in the list. Be SURE to replace the "if" path and the "of" path with the correct ones for your system the first being the location of your FreeNAS image, the second being the path to your flash drive.
If you do this incorrectly, you can cause severe data loss! Give it time to finish the copying process. When it's done, you'll get a message saying it completed successfully. Here are the things we recommend doing to get it set up:. Take some time to poke around FreeNAS' configuration settings and tweak anything you see that you might want to change. The above steps should get most people going, but if you have specific needs like if you're using static IP addresses instead of DHCP reservations you may have to tweak more.
Now that your FreeNAS system is up and running, it's time to add your hard disks to its pool. Here's how:. Repeat this process for all your attached hard drives. Then just select what filesystem it's already using, and you'll be able to use your existing data. When your hard drives are all set up, it's time to share them over the network. We're going to use CIFS, since its preferable for households with Windows machines or with multiple operating systems.
If you have an all-Mac household, look into AFP as an alternative. Now, head to your main computer. If it's a Windows machine, open Windows Explorer and click on the "Network" shortcut in the left-hand sidebar. You should see your FreeNAS machine pop up, and from there you can navigate to any of your shared drives. When prompted, enter your username and password the one we created from the FreeNAS "Users" settings earlier and you should be able to create and edit files right from your PC.
Congratulations, you have a fully operational file server! Now you can use these disks for whatever you want. You can store data on them, use them for backup, or even access them directly from your home theater PC though if you require streaming to DLNA devices, you'll want to check out the streaming section below. If you want to do more than just share files, FreeNAS has a fantastic plugin system to take advantage of. Here, we'll show you how to install three popular plugins for some pretty cool tasks.
In order to install plugins, you'll need to set up what's called a "jail. If you're using ZFS, FreeNAS recommends you use their slightly more complicated method , but we're just going to set them up using a few folders on one of our hard drives:. Now you're ready to start installing your plugins! Here are a few you might want to try out. Packet switches are analogous to intersections, and end systems are analogous to buildings.
ISPs include local cable or telephone companies. Each ISPs is in itself a network of packet switches and communication links. These ISPs are also interconnected. All the component of this network run protocols that control the sending and receiving of information. These protocols are most important for the unanimous functioning and thus important that everyone agrees on what each and every protocol does.
How does one application running on one end system instructs the Internet to deliver data to another software running on another end system? Taking an analogy from the same book: Suppose Alice wants to send a letter to Bob using the postal service.
In a similar manner, the internet has an API that the software sending data must follow to have the internet deliver the data to the software that will receive the data. What are client and server program and P2P architecture? A client program is a program running on one end system that requests and receives a service from a server program running on another end system.
The web browser is an example of a client program and Nginx or NodeJS or Tomcat is an example of a server program. Not all Internet application today consists of pure client programs interacting with pure server programs. Increasingly, many application is peer-to-peer P2P applications, in which end systems interact and run programs that perform both client and server functions.
Local Area Network LAN is a computer network, which is limited to a small office,a single building, multiple buildings inside a campus etc. Typically a LAN is a private network owned and maintained by a single organization.
For one device to communicate with another, it needs an IP address , and it must be unique. If there is another device on the same network with the same IP there will be an IP address conflict and both devices will lose network capability until this is resolved. The IP address consists of 4 numbers separated by decimals.
The IP address itself is separated into a network address and a host address. This means that one part of the IP address identifies the computer network ID and the other part identifies the host ID. As an example, an IP address of So, the network id would be Devices can only communicate with other devices on the same network id.
In other words, communication will work between 2 devices with IPs Subnet Mask : As a general rule wherever there is a in the subnet mask then the corresponding number of the IP address is part of the network id; where there is 0 in the subnet mask the corresponding number in the IP address is part of the host id. For an IP address of This tells the device that the first number of the IP address is to be used as the network address and the last 3 are to be used as the host id.
In this example, the computer network would be As long as another computer has the same subnet mask and an IP address starting with they can communicate with each other. If the subnet mask was Therefore to be on the same network both devices must have IP addresses starting with Communication across different network IDs take place with the help of a router. A router is a network device with 2 network interfaces NICs , each being on separate network ids. So, we may have 2 networks; Devices on the How does the data travel from origin end system to destination end system?
The default gateway is always a router. If you have a Mac-only setup, you might be better served no pun intended by configuring the drive for AFP shares. Click it and click the Close button. Finally, click the Services button on the left sidebar and select the Control Services option.
To resolve the issue, make sure that your FreeNAS network settings basically match those of the other computers on your network. Our simple share drive is but the tip of the FreeNAS iceberg with regard to features.
Options include locking drive access to users and groups, creating recurring snapshots for restoring older copies of files or deleted files entirely, and using the power combination of Dynamic DNS and FTP access to give your offsite workers easy access to the files they need.
Pull up the app within Windows 7 and click the Set Up Backup link. You can let Windows choose the files it thinks are the most important and should be backed up, or you can identify specific files and folders yourself. After that, you should be done with picking options. Your backup will start its first run. When it has finished, click the Change Settings link, and create an automated backup schedule.
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