Comments on: FreeNAS Tutorial for Windows Users – Part One – Installation

By: New File Server using FreeNAS

New File Server using FreeNAS — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:27:29 +0000

[...] site looks like it has some good instructions but I didn’t use it to set it up. Enjoy! Tags: freenas, nas, network attached [...]

By: jorge

jorge — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:08:33 +0000

fibre channel on FREENAS any recomendation?

By: Pat Yuen

Pat Yuen — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:05:14 +0000

I created an updated step by step guide with screen shots and new instructions for formatting drives with 4kb sectors. http://goo.gl/IvVe6

By: ragi

ragi — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:47:39 +0000

It worked perfectly. Thanks!

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:09:25 +0000

If your computer can support VT you can install it in VMware Player (Free). I think you can build it in there but if not the developer does have support for the download for the vmlk file that will allow you to use it virtually. You could then use a USB drive to host the share off of it. There are many good tools in FreeNAS. I currently have 3 running, i for an iSCSI target for ESX4.1 (VMware but on a server scale) 1 running a local network shares to all my computers and the last is a VMware Workstation copy that I play with so I can test things before i install to avoid taking my main system down or off line.

VMplayer is good if your computer can handle it. You may or will have to enable this option it BIOS. If you shoot me a reply back with your computer specs I can tel you if it will support VT and or VT-d.

I will need CPU model and your main board or if its lets say a dell the model number (aka Optiplex 980)

Ross

Very basic intro video on VT.
http://www.intel.com/technology/product/demos/vt/demo.htm

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:49:02 +0000

You know I had this issue as well. After trouble shooting the problem and thinking it must be my Hard drive controller card or something since it wanted the manual root filesystem specification I about gave up. Well maybe not, I like challenges so I went back to it at a later time. Come to find out after many attempts it was the stupid video card. I could install it on my laptop my desktop systems and in a virtual VMware system. There were two computers that gave me issues and just my luck they both had the same video card installed. My video card was a 7600GS PNY Nvidia card. The first system is an intel 850 mainboard with a socket 478 cpu @ 2.8Ghz with1GB RDRAM that is ECC, this system has 1 AGP slot and it carried the PNY 7600GS. The second system is a Supermicro MBD-PDSG4-O with a 3.4Ghz Extreme CPU and 8GB’s ECC memory and had a PCI-e PNY 7600GS PNY Nvidia card.

Problem fixed for both after installing ATI cards, I hate ATI but you know it fixed the issue and everything is up and running. I am not going to blame Nvidia or PNY, I just think that this card is not compatible at all with BSD. I’m sure if these boards had onboard video they would have worked, well let me take that back, good onboard video cards they would have worked first try.

I sure hope that this gives you the solve on your problem. I ended up having to borrow a friends card to test this since I got rid of most my Add-on cards a little over a year ago.

Good luck!
Ross

By: benjamin

benjamin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:06:30 +0000

i never get the splash screen. It goes through a bunch of code that looks like BSD and then wants manual root filesystem specification.
No idea what to do now.

By: rei

rei — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:53:13 +0000

Thanks for the nice tutorials.

Suppose the FreeNAS server is “opened” to the internet with appropriate security precautions. Then, is there any way to mount it on a windows system that is not on the LAN? Can you point me to a discussion link, if this is possible?

By: pool

pool — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:49:55 +0000

Freenas can be used as a media server and backup network attached storage for sure. It does NOT natively encode video. If you are doing something like video editing or something on a local machine, then you should have a local drive that can do 30-40 megabytes per second in data transfer. Now if you were running gigabit video with tweaked freenas OS settings, then you might have something, but other than that, using it for backups of files that you might be editing would be fine. again, do suggest a gigabit connection to your gigabit lan

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:48:04 +0000

Nice job on creating a detailed article for setting up FreeNAS. Very easy to follow.

By: Almacenamiento datos en red, FreeNASAlmacenamiento datos en red, FreeNAS « Un Mundo Libre Open Source

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:53:53 +0000

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By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:03:55 +0000

FreeNAS is installed on it’s own machine. But then any other computer/Operating System can use the shares.

By: H. jordan

H. jordan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:54:51 +0000

hoi all,

can i use or install freeNAS on windows server 2003, to make it as a target for my clustersystem?

rgds,

H.jordan

By: Menggunakan Microsoft SyncToy 2 untuk FreeNAS Server « DD 6663 BA

Menggunakan Microsoft SyncToy 2 untuk FreeNAS Server « DD 6663 BA — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:24:42 +0000

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By: Toby

Toby — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:46:04 +0000

I’m thinking about building a FreeNas machine but I’m undecided. I would use it as a media server and to do Windows and data backups. I could easily accomplish this by adding an extra hard drive or two to one of my Windows PCs and sharing them on the network. Can you tell me some of the advantages of setting up a FreeNas server as opposed to adding hard drives to your Windows PC and sharing them? I’m guessing that the server might be more efficient and use less power because it wouldn’t be running a bunch of programs and processes like a PC would. My main concern is that backing up my Windows drive or encoding video to a hard drive on the server over a 100Mbps connection would take much longer than backing up Windows or encoding video to a second hard drive installed on my Windows PC. Any thoughts or comments on the advantages of setting up a FreeNas server would be appreciated.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:59:47 +0000

@Paul PW. I think what you want to do for the PS3 is fine – and I think the easiest solution for the TiVo is to use the TiVo Desktop application on one of your Windows PCs and point TiVo Desktop to a shared drive on FreeNAS.

Hopefully this accomplishes what you want.

Rob

By: Paul PW

Paul PW — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:01:29 +0000

I want to use FreeNAS as a file server for PCs, but also as a media server for both PS3 & TiVo. PS3 is uPnP DLNA compliant so should be fine. TiVo would require running a separate server I think: pyTiVo or Galleon or tyshow. Is a FreeNAS box capable of running other such software or am I barking up the wrong tree??
Sorry this is OT, but I can’t find an answer elsewhere and thought you might know.
Thanks!

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