SoonerLater
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I've searched all forums for "headless" but I am still confused.
I have installed FreeNAS on my brand new HP N40L microserver (on an 8 gb SanDisk USB flash drive). I haven't made a pool yet, but there are six 1 tb HDDs in it that I will make into a Raid-Z2 pool. At the moment, it has a monitor and keyboard attached, but I want to run it headless as soon as I finish configuring it.
I realize that if you just remove the monitor and keyboard, you're headless. And as far as FreeNAS goes, you'll be able to do pretty much everything from the GUI web interface. However, won't there be times that you need a real remote desktop sort of thing? Like WRD (Windows Remote Desktop) or VNC? Is that necessary? How do you set that up?
I'm new to Linux. I can spell Linux... and that's about it.
I have installed FreeNAS on my brand new HP N40L microserver (on an 8 gb SanDisk USB flash drive). I haven't made a pool yet, but there are six 1 tb HDDs in it that I will make into a Raid-Z2 pool. At the moment, it has a monitor and keyboard attached, but I want to run it headless as soon as I finish configuring it.
I realize that if you just remove the monitor and keyboard, you're headless. And as far as FreeNAS goes, you'll be able to do pretty much everything from the GUI web interface. However, won't there be times that you need a real remote desktop sort of thing? Like WRD (Windows Remote Desktop) or VNC? Is that necessary? How do you set that up?
I'm new to Linux. I can spell Linux... and that's about it.