What is FreeNAS you say? Put simply, it's is an operating system based on FreeBSD that brings with it a snazzy web interface for management, and all the protocols you need to share files between ...

Software-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) is perfect for the do-it-yourselfer who doesn’t want to buy a pre-packaged appliance. With software-based NAS, you load the software onto the device of ...

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Your old desktop PC gave you years of reliable service, but eventually it couldn’t keep up with modern tasks and applications; so you went out and bought something newer and faster. Now you need to ...

FreeNAS is one one of the most popular software-defined storage products available and in this article Tom Fenton shows you how he installed it on a virtual machine to provide an NFS Share. Network ...

July 19, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google At its most basic, Network attached storage, or NAS, is a great way to share files on your local network. But it's ...

Ever have a server laying around that is not quite old enough to trash but not quite new enough to use as a production machine. Are you dying to move from direct attached storage into something more ...

To determine what your needs are, take a look at your users that you have set up in FreeNAS. Look at what group they are in and make sure that group has access to read/write to the volume in question.