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 […]
Quick and Easy NAS using FreeNAS – Part 1
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 2.6 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 […]
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 […]
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 3
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 4
1 | 2 | 3 | >4< | 5 | 6 Review and save changes: Here is the Data Management, Runners area showing an error that the NTP server we chose isn’t available: Here is the first part of the status page (we scrunched it to show half): Here is the second half of the […]
Nexenta NexentaStor NAS and iSCSI – Part 5
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | >5< | 6 There is an awesome Ajax terminal: NexentaStor has syncing services: Snapping service: Tiering: Here is the output of top from an SSH session: PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 6938 admin 5148K 3188K sleep 59 0 0:00:10 2.1% bash/1 710 […]
Nexenta NexentaStor NAS and iSCSI – Part 6
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | >6< A peek around the filesystem and the kernel: admin@nex1:/$ ls bin dev export initrd media opt root system var boot devices files kernel mnt platform sbin tmp volumes cdrom etc home lib net proc srv usr admin@nex1:/$ ls sbin autopush in.mpathd netstrategy runlevel umount […]
Creating an HP CUPS Printer
Lame article, yes, but I was able to fix some problems with my Officejet and get it running on Ubuntu 12.04: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html This is the link for administering my model of printer. YMMV (YMWPV): https://192.168.y.x:631/printers/Officejet_J4680
Generating a detailed hardware configuration report with NTHQ
To generate a detailed hardware configuration report that includes whether or not your hardware is on the hardware compatibility list, there is a utility you can use called NTHQ. First, you must create an NTHQ diskette that you can use to reboot the machine with. Put a floppy that you can overwrite in your floppy […]
ST15150 Barracuda’s, Tagged Command Queueing, and aic7xxx
Tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) is a cool part of SCSI-2 that allows the controller to issue commands to a device on the chain, but issue another command before the first one completes. Some older drives don’t support this, though. On a default Red Hat 8.0 install, I ran into this with a ST15150 Seagate Barracuda […]
Use Fdutils and Mtools to Create 2MB Floppies
Fdutils and Mtools can be used to read and format regular and alternatively formatted diskettes on GNU/Linux and other *nix systems. At a minimum, you sould use the fdutils utility superformat to format your diskettes, and adjust your driveprm parameter. When you install Debian, at one point in the install there is warning about driveprm […]
Detailed Sparc Info w/ Openpromfs Module for Linux
You can retrieve detailed information about your Sun box by selecting the Openprom module in the General setup area of the Linux kernel: <M> Openprom tree appears in /proc/openprom The module should load automatically when needed under most circumstances, but we will load it manually in this example: srv-44 / # insmod openpromfs Using /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/ […]
PC Weasel Shipping PCI Version
We’ve been big fans of the PC Weasel for a long time. We wrote up an article about them back in 2001. At that time, though, you couldn’t purchase their product easily, and they hadn’t finished their PCI version. Well, it looks like you can purchase the PCI version online now. The PC Weasel lets […]