- Paperback: 227 pages
- Publisher: PACKT PUBLISHING (31 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847194680
- ISBN-13: 978-1847194688
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 19 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 827,867 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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FreeNAS is free software that turns a PC into a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server. It supports client connections from Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. It has a web interface for administration and includes support for RAID (0, 1, 5), iSCSI, drive encryption, and UPnP. Based on FreeBSD, it has modest system requirements but is scalable for the enterprise.
This book will show you how to work with FreeNAS and set it up for your needs. You will learn how to configure and administer a FreeNAS server in a variety of networking scenarios. You will also learn how to plan and implement RAID on the server as well as how to use Storage Area Network technologies like iSCSI. The standard FreeNAS documentation walks you through the basic configuration, but this book will tell you exactly what you should do to plan, work, and deploy FreeNAS. This book has a comprehensive troubleshooting section that will point you in the right direction whenever you need help.
This book will show you how to work with FreeNAS and set it up for your needs. You will learn how to configure and administer a FreeNAS server in a variety of networking scenarios. You will also learn how to plan and implement RAID on the server as well as how to use Storage Area Network technologies like iSCSI. The standard FreeNAS documentation walks you through the basic configuration, but this book will tell you exactly what you should do to plan, work, and deploy FreeNAS. This book has a comprehensive troubleshooting section that will point you in the right direction whenever you need help.
About the Author
Gary Sims
Gary Sims is a freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer from the UK and has been working with open-source software since the mid 1990s. He first saw Linux while completing his degree in Business Information Systems at Portsmouth University. Then while working for Digital Equipment Corp he came in to contact with DEC's Ultrix and later Digital UNIX (formerly OSF/1). While developing enterprise software for DEC on its UNIX platforms he became more and convinced of the benefits of open source and open-source Unix-like operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD. After leaving DEC he became a software contractor and after moving to Romania in 2003 he became a freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer and started publishing articles for the Open Source Technology Group (owners of Linux.com and SourceForge.net). This then led to him writing his first book with Packt.
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This was a great buy. I found it to be compatible with my level of PC knowledge. I used it to convert an old (approx 4-year old Intel Celeron, 500Mb RAM XP Home) machine to a useful NAS server with very little trouble. I just followed the instructions !
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FreeNAS is one of those astonishingly clever ideas that the Open Source arena produces and then frustrates the end user with flame filled forums and poor documentation. If you have an old PC and some time, download the software and get you self a copy of Gary Sims book.
He has covered complicated software with sufficient depth and clarity that someone with a methodical approach and a modicum of understanding of how a network works should be able to get a result. He has included enough detail that I gained a useful increase in how network protocols work while building a home storage facility with RAID. The layout is well thought out and it's easy to skip past familiar material. EG, if you know how to download and burn an ISO image.
If have any criticism at-all it is the quality of the paper the book is printed on but that's a minor point and well worth the purchase price.
He has covered complicated software with sufficient depth and clarity that someone with a methodical approach and a modicum of understanding of how a network works should be able to get a result. He has included enough detail that I gained a useful increase in how network protocols work while building a home storage facility with RAID. The layout is well thought out and it's easy to skip past familiar material. EG, if you know how to download and burn an ISO image.
If have any criticism at-all it is the quality of the paper the book is printed on but that's a minor point and well worth the purchase price.
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I don't see much added value for this book. FreeNAS, like most opensource projects, is poorly documented. That is, the user forum on the web is the documentation. So writing a book about a good opensource project is a very good idea.
FreeNAS has a very user friendly web interface, with a lot of text explaining the meaning and effect of each tick box or input field you can find in it. This book is basically the synthesis of all the text in the webGUI. So installing FreeNAS on a left-over PC and browsing through the webGUI will give you about as much information as contained in this book.
FreeNAS has a very user friendly web interface, with a lot of text explaining the meaning and effect of each tick box or input field you can find in it. This book is basically the synthesis of all the text in the webGUI. So installing FreeNAS on a left-over PC and browsing through the webGUI will give you about as much information as contained in this book.
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