1 | 2 | >3< | 4 | 5 | 6 Set passwords: The disks were set up as part of the VM: The disks show up on the left pane. Set up your volume: There are many different options for accessing the volume, including iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, FTP, RSYNC, and WebDAV: 1 | 2 […]
Nexenta NexentaStor NAS and iSCSI – Part 3
Nexenta NexentaStor NAS and iSCSI – Part 2
1 | >2< | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 There is a license agreement: The registration code comes back via email quickly: The machine signature stays the same with repeated installs, so if you want to start over, just re-extract the VMware image and reinstall. Select a different IP address if needed. The […]
Nexenta NexentaStor NAS and iSCSI – Part 1
>1< | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Nexenta sells a software based NAS and iSCSI solution that is built on their Open Source NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris project. OK. This is getting pretty cool. As crankish users of GNU/Linux as a designation on NetAdminTools for many years, it is nice to see Stallman’s […]
Creating an iSCSI Target with the Linux 2.6 Kernel
In this article, we set up an iSCSI target for the 2.4 linux kernel. Development for the 2.4 kernel, at least with the iSCSI target we are using has ceased, so we needed move to 2.6. In this article, we will set up an iSCSI target using the latest and greatest iSCSI target software available […]
Mac OS X iSCSI Initiator
There was only one choice we could find for a Mac iSCSI initiator. It is available from ATTO Technology. We used the iSCSI target we set up in this article, which is a GNU/Linux box running a 2.6 Linux kernel. Of course, iSCSI is a standard, so any iSCSI target should work as well. The […]
Creating an iSCSI Target with the Linux 2.4 Kernel
This is a very similar article to this; however, we are using the last version of iscsitarget available for the 2.4 kernel. We wanted to bring up a simple iSCSI box quickly to serve as a target for our Mac OS X iSCSI Initiator article. We are working on a generic 2.6 kernal install procedure […]
Configuring an HP Jetdirect Via Telnet
If you ever need to reconfigure an HP Jetdirect, this can be done via telnet. We have a model 170x; however, this procedure will work with many Jetdirect boxes. First off, you need to figure out the current IP address. Do this by pushing the system test button on the Jetdirect box. The current IP […]
Quick and Easy NAS using FreeNAS – Part 4
There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 To test this, we are going to set up CIFS and create a share off of a disk device. First off, we will configure CIFS, and change the workgroup to something different (remote1 in this example). Make […]
Quick and Easy NAS using FreeNAS – Part 3
There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 When the system comes back up, it should list the correct interface, as well as the default LAN IP address: Choose option 2 to set the LAN IP address and subnet mask: Reboot again to make sure […]
Quick and Easy NAS using FreeNAS – Part 2
There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Here is the second question that you answer “y” to if you are very confident you don’t have any devices you want the data on hooked up to this system: Now, perhaps you are familiar with the […]
Quick and Easy NAS using FreeNAS – Part 1
There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 FreeNAS is a very compact and free (as in BSD) CIFS, NFS, and FTP server with RAID 0, 1, 5 support, and a web administration GUI. Believe it or not the whole install is 16 megs. To […]
