My main goal is to have a home network setup that allows centralized backup for all the PCs in the house, including 1 MacBook. I've got this setup mostly working, but wanted to add print server functionality. To me this would be a great package already built in, it's not the point of this posting however. I found tutorials, all of which indicate I need to install the LPRng package to allow my NAS box to act as a print server, but quickly found pkg_add -r LPRng won't execute if it can't get past my router. My router is dlink and has the DDNS functionality built in with setup via dlinkddns.com. But after many failed efforts, I still cannot remotely access my freeNAS file structure. Within the house and on wifi, no problems. Oddly, in the shell I can ping 8.8.8.8, with successful results. So maybe I've been over thinking this, and possibly misunderstood, but the question is, with my freeNAS box set as static ip, meanwhile everything else is DHCP.... is my only solution to buy a static ip from my ISP (Rogers here in Canada), or should the DDNS functionality of the router work with my static IP of my freeNAS box.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts and advice you can give me.
Regards. Rob
Thanks in advance for any thoughts and advice you can give me.
Regards. Rob