I've been experimenting with freenas for over a year now, and its been a great learning experience. I'm coming from a QNAP 419P+ which is feature rich and performance poor.. I want more space but totally do not want to be paying £2K plus for a few extra drive slots. Currently I'm running a HP N40L with 8GB ECC RAM and on this I have transmission, couch potato, sick beard, them, plex all running in jails. All my data is now on the test system and I'm running it all in parallel before i make the switch. my only issues are that the N40L is a bit slow for media streaming, and it also does not have many bays.... I'm currently thinking about selling the QNAP, freenas and an lenovo Q190 (core i3) to then purchase a proper server... i've got a X10SL7-f + Xeon E3 1220 V3 in my sights but they are not readily available yet!
There are two things I can not figure out.
1) How to configure a VPN server in a jail that I can connect to with my iPhone, iPad, and laptop. I have an EC2 instance configured using this script / tutorial (here) and it works great. I have set up an openvpn but this is not the PPTP, IPSEC that the iPhone supports. For this I believe I need the IPSEC goodness... but this is a bit beyond me in the amount of configuring required. I'm new to both linux and freebsd... which is why i used this script on my EC2 instance. and it works well.. my QNAP has a VPN setting which is very simple to implement.. just turn it on, and give credentials to use. This would be absolutely amazing if it could be included in freenas by default. I Tried getting this to work on an old ubuntu server and failed miserably, so at the moment the voodoo privacy script is my only working VPN implementation.
2) Get CUPS working in a jail so that freenas can work as a print server. I've tried multiple times and can't seem to get it to work perfectly. I will post another forum post going into more detail later. But essentially I get a test page to print fro CUPS in a JAIL, but i had to change the connection from usb to file:/dev/ulpt0. But then when i send a document to print it seems to get stopped, or paused... if anyone has any other solutions... I have passed the permissions for the device through to the jail, and the cups users..
cheers
Andrew
There are two things I can not figure out.
1) How to configure a VPN server in a jail that I can connect to with my iPhone, iPad, and laptop. I have an EC2 instance configured using this script / tutorial (here) and it works great. I have set up an openvpn but this is not the PPTP, IPSEC that the iPhone supports. For this I believe I need the IPSEC goodness... but this is a bit beyond me in the amount of configuring required. I'm new to both linux and freebsd... which is why i used this script on my EC2 instance. and it works well.. my QNAP has a VPN setting which is very simple to implement.. just turn it on, and give credentials to use. This would be absolutely amazing if it could be included in freenas by default. I Tried getting this to work on an old ubuntu server and failed miserably, so at the moment the voodoo privacy script is my only working VPN implementation.
2) Get CUPS working in a jail so that freenas can work as a print server. I've tried multiple times and can't seem to get it to work perfectly. I will post another forum post going into more detail later. But essentially I get a test page to print fro CUPS in a JAIL, but i had to change the connection from usb to file:/dev/ulpt0. But then when i send a document to print it seems to get stopped, or paused... if anyone has any other solutions... I have passed the permissions for the device through to the jail, and the cups users..
cheers
Andrew