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Initial setup of (FreeNAS) file server
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Adding disks, CIFS/SMB shares to FreeNAS
Add Disks: What I did, was add a disk at a time (one each week, and stressed it for the entire week). This way the wear on the disk should be staggered and we are less likely to have all drives fail at...
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A few steps to secure a FreeNAS server
Change the web gui admin user name in System|General under WebGUI->Username. Change the default password in System|General|Password. Setup key pair authentication for SSH and secure FreeNAS. Clean...
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Setting up a NFS share in FreeNAS
This setup is quite different to how you would normally setup NFS on a *nix server. I only use NFS in read only mode due to security concerns with NFS. There are very few options you can configure and...
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Distributed Version Control the solution?
Due to the fact that I am starting to need a Version Control System at home for my own work and the company I currently work for during the day could potentially benefit from a real Version Control...
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copying with scp
I was having some trouble today copying a file (1.5GB .iso) from a notebook to a file server. The notebook I was using was running Linux Ubuntu. The server FreeBSD. I was trying to copy this file using...
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rsync over SSH from Linux workstation to FreeNAS
I’ve been intending for quite some time to setup an automated or at least a thoughtless one click backup procedure from my family members PC’s to a file server. Now if you put files directories in the...
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Procurement & Config of Sun Fire V240 & ALOM
Part one of a three part series On setting up pfSense which is a free and open source FreeBSD based enterprise grade routing solution on a Sun Fire V240 server for a client of mine. Recently I was...
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Keeping Your Linux Server/s In Time With Your Router
Your NTP Server With this set-up, we’ve got one-to-many Linux servers in a network that all want to be synced with the same up-stream Network Time Protocol (NTP) server/s that your router (or what ever...
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