climb2bhi
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I am a total noob with this stuff, however I'm good with hardware and have built myself a very nice NAS box. It is enclosed in a large well ventilated gaming tower with six fans. It is currently running on a SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SMi-2-O motherboard with AMD Opteron 1218 2.6ghz, 2GB DDR2 800 SDRAM (soon to have 8GB DDR2 800 SDRAM), Dual-port Gigabit LAN/Ethernet, 6 SATA2 3.0 Gb/s HDD connectors on the motherboard, Plus 2 PCI-e SATA cards allowing for 6 more drives. 64-bit FreeNAS 8.0.3 installed on a 8 GB USB Drive. I have temporarily installed 2 500GB SATA drives just to test setting up and getting the system going. On the way are 6x 2TB SATA Advanced Format drives. Which I'm hoping will give me something like 8TB usable storage with ZFS. It all came together a week ago and I have had fun over the last week getting it up and running, creating user profiles, deleting users, enabling services, getting it running and then fooling with it until it breaks, resetting it and getting it all going again. All the while with out loosing a couple of test video files on the temp drives. It has been a real learning process since I know nothing about networking and dont speak Networkese. I am happy with the whole thing and look forward to putting a huge amount of movies, music, and photos on it, and streaming them to my home theater computer. I would like my girlfriend to be able to upload and download photos to it from her house so my next step is to enable SSH and try to get my router and DSL modem to allow her remote access using Filezilla. I do not have a static WAN IP (just learned what that is) so she will need to call me each time she wants to use it so I can give her my latest WAN IP. Which is fine. I have read the FreeNAS user guide and have a rough idea how to set up SSH with a user account for her. But I'm sure I'm missing some settings in my NAS and have no idea what to do with my router and DSL modem. Any instructions I could get to set this up would be greatly appreciated. Especially if they are in layman’s terms, and not in Networkese. (I'm still learning all of the acronyms used in networking). For example if you tell me to forward ports I have no idea how to do this. If you give me values to enter into certain fields then I can probably follow.
FreeNaAS server 192.168.1.10 (static) everything working on my LAN
D-Link DIR-825 Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit Router which has features like:
Virtual Server- allows opening a single port
Port Forwarding- open a single port or a range of ports
Actiontec GT701-WG with lots of features and settings.
I'm not in a hurry and only hope to make a little progress towards this goal each night after work. I'm guessing this is child’s play for some here on this site. And I have also noticed as I have browsed forms here in search of knowledge that senior form members have been very helpful to noobs like myself. So kudos to all of the helpful folks here.
Thanks
FreeNaAS server 192.168.1.10 (static) everything working on my LAN
D-Link DIR-825 Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit Router which has features like:
Virtual Server- allows opening a single port
Port Forwarding- open a single port or a range of ports
Actiontec GT701-WG with lots of features and settings.
I'm not in a hurry and only hope to make a little progress towards this goal each night after work. I'm guessing this is child’s play for some here on this site. And I have also noticed as I have browsed forms here in search of knowledge that senior form members have been very helpful to noobs like myself. So kudos to all of the helpful folks here.
Thanks