How to detect FreeNAS's IP address if I have no Monitors?

[Herald.Yu]

Such as the title！
I want to konw, if I have no monitor, how to determin FreeNAS IP address?

Solution：
If you use MAC OS X, open terminal and type

Code:

ping freenas
ping freenas.local

If you use Linux, open terminal and type

Code:

ping freenas.local

 

[enemy85]

If u are at home, access your router page and ser all the IP connected!

 

[Herald.Yu]

Thank you for your anwser!
But I want an easiser method to determin FreeNAS IP, what software can solve this problem or commad?

If u are at home, access your router page and ser all the IP connected!

 

[cyberjock]

Hook up a damn monitor or use hardware with IPMI.. that's how you do it more easily. ;)

 

[panz]

Use Fing!

 

[Herald.Yu]

Use Fing!

Thank you, Fing is really a good app for scan ip address. Did you konw anohter software for windows ?

 

[danb35]

Maybe if you'd ask your whole question, rather than piecing it out over time? You've been given at least four answers here: use your router admin page, hook up a monitor, use IPMI, and use fing. Apparently you don't like any of them. We can't help you with that, if you don't tell us what you're looking for.

 

[Herald.Yu]

Hook up a damn monitor or use hardware with IPMI.. that's how you do it more easily. ;)

Thank you for your reply!
OK, I should try IPMI, do you have any experience about IPMI？

 

[esamett]

Low tech solution if you have extra/old video card at home:

Most motherboards have PCI-x and PCI slots. You don't need anything but network access to set IP address. You can put video card in any slot. Its OK to unplug controller cards for this. Get your IP address set, then shut down and put things back as they were. Then log in to FreeNAS using web interface from your pc. I use an old PCI video card I salvaged from an old PC I "rescued."

If none of these things work for you then get help from friend.

 

[Herald.Yu]

Maybe if you'd ask your whole question, rather than piecing it out over time? You've been given at least four answers here: use your router admin page, hook up a monitor, use IPMI, and use fing. Apparently you don't like any of them. We can't help you with that, if you don't tell us what you're looking for.

Thank you for your reply!
It's so good for the four ways you gave me to detect FreeNAS's IP address.
I want to find a best way for newbie of FreeNAS. Maybe he/she don't know how to use a router and have no monitor. Unfortunately, he/she also have no smart mobilephone, like iphone or android phone. In this case, how could they get FreeNAS's IP?

 

[Whattteva]

Lol, let me piece this all together.
You have no router, no monitor (no keyboard/mouse too I'm assuming). At this point I'm beginning to doubt you even HAVE the actual FreeNAS box lol.

 

[gpsguy]

Adding to what @Whatteva said, perhaps said user should'nt attempt to use FreeNAS.

 

[fracai]

Starting somewhere around 9.2, FreeNAS advertises itself on your network as "freenas.local". So you can try loading that in a browser, or ping the address on the command line to get the IP.

 

[Knowltey]

Thank you for your reply!
It's so good for the four ways you gave me to detect FreeNAS's IP address.
I want to find a best way for newbie of FreeNAS. Maybe he/she don't know how to use a router and have no monitor. Unfortunately, he/she also have no smart mobilephone, like iphone or android phone. In this case, how could they get FreeNAS's IP?

You seem to be looking for an easy way for a non-tech-savvy person to find out the IP address of the FreeNAS box. But therein lies the problem, those aren't the people that FreeNAS is targeting and are the last people that should be using FreeNAS.

If you aren't technical enough to know how to use a router, you aren't technical enough to be running FreeNAS safely. If you don't have the spare time to plug it into a monitor for long enough to get the IP Address, you don't have the spare time to learn how to properly use FreeNAS safely and the best practices.

And as fracai said, anyone who has done their due diligence should know that the FreeNAS advertises as freenas.local on default installation, and with a properly set up network you should be able to access the FreeNAS by that address and get the IP address from that information as well.

You are looking for a solution to a problem that does not exist. If it does come into existence one day, it is a problem between keyboard and chair.

If none of the options presented in this thread are easy enough for a user, then FreeNAS itself is not going to be easy enough. The learning curve to simply use FreeNAS for a user that can't figure out how to do networking 101 would be nigh insurmountable. Learn how to do networking before setting up Network Attached Storage.

 

[cyberjock]

OK, if you are so non-technical challenged that the current options aren't available then you either NEED to make one of those available. We're sitting here running in circles with 'what if this' and 'what if that'. Multiple methods have been presented and unless you have an actual problem I'm going to lock this thread. Going through all these theoreticals is NOT something to be done in the forum. This is something your admin should be doing. If he/she can't do this then he/she probably shouldn't be setting up your box.

 

[Whattteva]

What if the FreeNAS box doesn't have a NIC or it has a NIC, but I don't have long enough cable to connect to switch (screw that, the switch doesn't even exist), what if the FreeNAS box itself doesn't even exist? How do I find the IP for it?!#@
Sorry for the trolling lol, just couldn't resist.

 

[panz]

Thank you, Fing is really a good app for scan ip address. Did you konw anohter software for windows ?

Under Windows I use Advanced IP Scanner
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-IP-Scanner/Advanced-IP-scanner.shtml

 

[HolyK]

Angry IP scanner. I like version 2 since it does not need java.

Sent from my Motorola Photon Q

 

[Herald.Yu]

Starting somewhere around 9.2, FreeNAS advertises itself on your network as "freenas.local". So you can try loading that in a browser, or ping the address on the command line to get the IP.

Thank you for your reply！
My LAN have a router, a switch, and FreeNAS BOX connected to the switch. FreeNAS-9.2.1.7-RELEASE-x64 (Fresh installation) .
LAN IP: 192.168.1.10
Lastnight, I try to "ping freenas.local" use windows 7 clinet, It's showed the public IP of my network rather than LAN IP.
But when I use MAC AIR "ping freenas.local", the results are correct.
I will try to access the "freenas.local" with browser later.

 

[Herald.Yu]

Under Windows I use Advanced IP Scanner
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-IP-Scanner/Advanced-IP-scanner.shtml

Hah, thanks a lot. I must try it later!:)