Hello friends
Welcome to my video
In this video I show you step-by-step how to install FreeNAS on PC
Before you begin
You need to ensure that you have everything you need
This includes the following
Setting up FreeNAS, a popular open-source network attached storage solution, is not a difficult task
is not a difficult task
Here's how to get started and configure a working Home Server
In order to install FreeNAS on a free PC
you need to make sure the USB drive is bootable and has all the necessary files
Here's how you can get a USB drive ready to go
Download FreeNAS
Download Rufus a program to create bootable USB drives
Insert your USB drive run Rufus and select the USB
Click the disk image next to create a bootable disk using
Navigate to the downloaded FreeNAS iso file
The USB drive is now ready to be inserted into the FreeNAS PC to install the OS
Press the Power button for your computer
During the initial startup screen, press Delete or other key, depending on the company that created your version of BIOS
Move USB to be first in the boot sequence
Save the change and then exit the BIOS Setup
The computer will restart using the new settings
Booting from your USB drive
Select Install/Upgrade
Select the hard drive you want to install the FreeNAS operating system on
Enter a root password
Wait for the OS to install
Reboot the PC
Once FreeNAS has loaded, it's possible to select from various entries on the main menu
or detach the PC from a monitor and log in to the web interface from another PC on the same network
The FreeNAS machine should provide a URL, which is essentially the IP that has been assigned to that particular machine by the network
For example
we access our FreeNAS test machine using 10.11.32.41 in the web browser
Go to Storage then select Pools and click ADD
Select Create new pool and click CREATE POOL
Android name for the pool in the name field From the Available Disks section, select disks to add to the pool
After selecting disks, click the right arrow to add them to the Data VDevs section
In this video I have 2 identical hard drives, so I choose mirror
After the desired layout is configured, click CREATE
Open the pool options by clicking the 3 dots on the right of the pool then, “Add Dataset”
Click “SAVE” when done. It will ask you to “Enable Service” for the SMB protocol
Go to Accounts >> User. Click Add
Enter the new user details including full name, username, password, primary group and some others
Click Save
Next, we’ll create the Windows Share. Go to “Sharing”, and “Windows Shares (SMB)”
Click the folder icon, and browse to the path of the dataset you want to share
On the left side, leave “root” and “wheel” as the original owners of the dataset
They said to give another user ownership permissions click at ACL item
To give another user ownership permissions, click “Add ACL Item”, then choose “User” for the “Who” field, and your username for the “User” field.
Accessing SMB share from Windows
Head on over to your Windows machine.
Open up File Explorer, and type in \\ followed by your FreeNAS IP address
You should be able to see your share here.
Enter the login details of the account you created in the beginning
You should now be able to add, delete, and create files or folders.
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Use these steps to set a static IP address on FreeNAS using the web interface
Clear the DHCP option
In the ipv4 address field specify a static IP address that matches your network outside
The DHCP scope
In the “IPv4 Address” field, specify a static IP address that matches your network outside the DHCP scope
For example, 10.11.32.41