FreeNAS and Couchpotato
A good guide is available here: Freenas 9.2.0 with Transmission and Couchpotato/Sickbeard as a DLNA-Server
FreeNAS
[How-To] Transmission & FreeNAS Shared Mount Points
There is a great tutorial on how to set up FreeNAS with Transmission on the FreeNAS forums: [How-To] Transmission & FreeNAS Shared Mount Points
FreeNAS – Setting up ZFS
I always was curious about ZFS but haven’t played with it until very recently. I thought it was too complicated and I was afraid it will use up too much space because of the snapshots capability. Few days ago I installed the latest beta of FreeNAS 8 on a USB stick (here how it is … Read more
FreeNAS 8 Series
This is a collection of posts related to FreeNAS 8 (ver 8.2 BETA 3). I am just capturing my experience and would be glad if it is helpful for anyone else. * Installing FreeNAS to USB stick (new and simpler way) *
FreeNAS – Windows (CIFS) Shares on ZFS
In the previous article we talked about Setting up ZFS. Here we are going to create a Windows (CIFS) share that will be accessible on the local network and will demostrate how to use the ZFS snapshots to restore lost data. Let’s Add Windows (CIFS) Share from Sharing -> Windows (CIFS) Shares: Creating a CIFS … Read more
FreeNAS – Initial configuration
This article is about configuring FreeNAS (v. 8.2 BETA 3). If you haven’t yet installed FreeNAS have a look at Installing FreeNAS to USB stick first. We will assume that FreeNAS was installed and running on a remote computer with IP address of 192.168.1.210. Your installation most probably will have a different address. It also … Read more
Installing FreeNAS to USB stick (new and simpler way)
This is the current article that describes the simplest way of installing FreeNAS on USB stick in Windows without burning installation CD first. There is an old post about installing FreeNAS on USB stick which is available here but it is more complicated and I encourage you to use this one instead. Here is how … Read more
How to install FreeNAS to USB stick
Note: This post is more than an year old. You can still use it to install FreeNAS on USB but I strongly recommend you to read the new one first which is much simpler: Installing FreeNAS to USB stick (new and simpler way) FreeNAS is an Open Source Storage Platform based on FreeBSD and supports … Read more
Configure FreeNAS iSCSI and VMWare ESXi (w/AUDIO!)
This is a very useful video that describes how to configure FreeNAS iSCSI as a data store for ESXi. The credits go to mrholverson A copy of this video is available