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FreeNAS is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) server

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FreeNAS.zip

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Operating System:
FreeBSD 6.1 - RC

Applications:
- PHP 4.4.2, freely available from http://www.php.net.
Copyright © 2001-2006 The PHP Group. All rights reserved.
- mini_httpd 1.19 (http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd)
Copyright © 1999, 2000 by Jef Poskanzer . All rights reserved.
- OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com/)
Copyright © 1999-2006 OpenBSD
- Samba 3.0.22 (http://www.samba.org)
- Rsync 2.6.7 (http://www.samba.org/rsync/)
- vsftpd 2.0.4 (http://vsftpd.beasts.org/)
Chris Evans (chris@scary.beasts.org)
- Netatalk 2.0.3(http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright © 1990,1996 Regents of The University of Michigan
- Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
Copyright © 2003 - 2005 Porchdog Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
- Circular log support for FreeBSD syslogd (http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd)
Copyright © 2001 Jeff Wheelhouse (jdw@wwwi.com)
- msntp (http://www.hpcf.cam.ac.uk/export)
Copyright © 1996, 1997, 2000 N.M. Maclaren, University of Cambridge. All rights reserved.
- ataidle 0.9 (http://www.cran.org.uk/bruce/software/ataidle.php)
Copyright © 2004-2005 Bruce Cran . All rights reserved.
- smartmontools 5.33 (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net)
Copyright © 2002-2005 Bruce Allen.

Description:
FreeNAS is a small (less than 16Mo) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6.1 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP, NFS, SSH, SCP, RSYNC, AFP).
The configuration is done from a Web GUI (based on the m0n0wall GUI).
This release is based on FreeNAS 0.66.
1. What does the appliance do:
Share your space using lot's of network file protocol
FreeNAS support :
* Filesystem: UFS, FAT32, EXT2/EXT3, NTFS (limited read-only)
* Protocol: CIFS (samba) , FTP, NFS, SSH, RSYNC and AFP
* Hard drive: ATA/SATA, SCSI, USB and Firewire
* GPT/EFI partitionning for hard drive bigger than 2TB
* Networks cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6.1 (including wireless card!)
* Boot from USB key
* Hardware RAID cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6.1
* Software RAID 0, 1 and 5
* Management of the groups and the users (Local User authentication and Microsoft Domain)
2. How was the appliance built:
FreeNAS is a stripped down version of FreeBSD 6.1 with the minimum tools included and all the system init script use PHP as 'scripts languages'.
All the configuration is done from the Web GUI.
3. More information (user manual, forum support) can be found on the web site: http://www.freenas.org
The User manual is here:
http://www.freenas.org/downloads/docs/user-docs/FreeNAS-SUG.pdf
This VMWare Appliance is configured:
- with a LAN interface in briding mode
- with the IP address: 192.168.1.120
- With two virtual hard drive:
One shared for the system and the data
One for the data
4. Licences terms:
FreeNAS is Copyright © 2005-2006 by Olivier Cochard (olivier@freenas.org).
All rights reserved.
FreeNAS is based on m0n0wall which is Copyright © 2002-2006 by Manuel Kasper (mk@neon1.net).
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The following persons have contributed to FreeNAS code:
Stefan Hendricks (info@henmedia.de)
Added some system information and processes page
Mat Murdock (mmurdock@kimballequipment.com)
Improved the Rsync client page and code
The following persons have contributed to FreeNAS documentation project:
Bob Jaggard (rjaggard@bigpond.com)
Beta tester and user manual contributor
Regis Caubet (caubet.r@gmail.com)
French translator of the user manual
The following persons have contributed to FreeNAS Website:
Youri Trioreau (youri.trioreau@no-log.org)
Webmaster
FreeNAS is based upon/includes various free software packages, listed below.
The author of FreeNAS would like to thank the authors of these software packages for their efforts.
FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org)
Copyright © 1995-2006 The FreeBSD Project. All rights reserved.
This product includes PHP, freely available from http://www.php.net.
Copyright © 2001-2006 The PHP Group. All rights reserved.
mini_httpd (http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd)
Copyright © 1999, 2000 by Jef Poskanzer . All rights reserved.
OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com/)
Copyright © 1999-2006 OpenBSD
Samba (http://www.samba.org)
Rsync (http://www.samba.org/rsync/)
vsftpd (http://vsftpd.beasts.org/)
Chris Evans (chris@scary.beasts.org)
Netatalk (http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright © 1990,1996 Regents of The University of Michigan
Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
Copyright © 2003 - 2005 Porchdog Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
Circular log support for FreeBSD syslogd (http://software.wwwi.com/syslogd)
Copyright © 2001 Jeff Wheelhouse (jdw@wwwi.com)
msntp (http://www.hpcf.cam.ac.uk/export)
Copyright © 1996, 1997, 2000 N.M. Maclaren, University of Cambridge. All rights reserved.
ataidle (http://www.cran.org.uk/bruce/software/ataidle.php)
Copyright © 2004-2005 Bruce Cran . All rights reserved.
smartmontools (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net)
Copyright © 2002-2005 Bruce Allen.