FreeNASâ hmm. Well the journey begins.
11v1 ISO image downloaded, burned to CD, microserver booted off it and software installed onto USB stick. It even went so far as to DHCP, and Static Root correctly, even NTP seems to be working, in all it impressed the hell out of me!!!
What didnât impress me is it not working with Internet Explorer 11. I know, I know, I can hear you all from here! BUT, I donât think itâs too much to expect it to work with the most widely used web browser in the world, even if it is somewhat security challenged. Installed Firefox and remote GUI now works fine.
Took the email config first time and test email worked. Ditto Timezone.
Couldnât turn on HTTPS and SSH as no Certificates generated yet but I understand why/how.
Anything else I should be doing before I install the disks and create the RAID please?
Thanks
Andrew.
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From: list [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M. J. Everitt
Sent: 11 January 2018 20:04
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [LUG] NAS recommendation please
On 11/01/18 19:57, M. J. Everitt wrote:
On 11/01/18 17:14, Andy Wills wrote:
I use FreeNAS, it's worked really well for me. Does have quite high
memory requirements, though, due to use of ZFS (I think?)
http://www.freenas.org/
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 02:28:33PM -0000, Andrew Kendall wrote:
Hi All,
Sorry to bother you with this but I need a NAS. Iâm about to take a very large
hammer to my Netgear NV+ / V2 because itâs let me down for the last time, and
thereâs no UG support available.
Iâve got 3 x 3TB Disks and a PC chassis. Can you recommend a Linux NAS solution
which will make use of the hardware please?
Apologies and thanks,
Andrew.
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Andy is indeed correct, I've used FreeNAS, and it does work, but there
are a lot of quirks if you need/want to do anything outside of the web
interface, although it was last v9 or 10 that I used.
My inclination is to build your own .. all the packages necessary are
trusted stalwarts, and you get to set things up exactly as you please,
and dabble with anything, and you're likely to have a more secure,
flexible system than anything boxed with proprietary drivers/firmware.
Regards,
Michael.
Addendum, a while ago I put into use a HP Microserver with 4 disk 'slots' .. it worked well with a USB stick as FreeNAS host, but I probably wouldn't personally use FreeNAS myself again .. I've now got to grips with ZFS-on-linux :)
Things to note: you lose whatever disk FreeNAS is installed on (or used to) so you lose one 'disk' if you're using spinning rust. The HP microserver had an internal USB slot which I used for the OS, which worked well, and was suggested in documentation. I did add a second 'slice' of RAM and a second network NIC to give it 2GB RAM and 2GB networking capacity, and I bonded the two network interfaces together. We were using NFS and Samba4 at the time, and I confess I got proper confused with Windows ACLs, and still don't understand the nuances of Samba 4 yet...
YMMV, but good luck if you choose this route!
