Administering freenas from the commandline

[pranavlal]

Hi all,

I have just installed Frenas 8.3 in a virtual machine. Is it possible to administer freenas via the commandline? Yes, I know that there is a shell I can reach from the console. Can I do things like creating users and groups manually in the shell?

The reason I have to do this is that I have an issue navigating the web interface of freenas. I am blind so use a screen reader which is a program that converts the text of the screen into speech output. I use job access with speech (jaws) from http://www.freedomscientific.com. My screen reader has a problem in handling the menu like navigation that has been implemented in the web interface.

Regards
Pranav

 

[William Grzybowski]

Hi,

Unfortunately FreeNAS management has to be done within the WebGUI.
I will try to download jaws and see if I can get the menu to behave better. I have just create a ticket so we can keep track of this: https://support.freenas.org/ticket/1912.

Thanks

 

[pranavlal]

Hi William,

Many thanks for your response. There is an open source screen reader out there called non-visual desktop access or NVDA. Get it at http://www.nvda-project.org. This may be easier to work with than Jaws since NVDA does not require a license. Jaws does have a 30 minute demonstration mode which may help. Whatever works with NVDA, will work with all other screen readers.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can help with this.

By the way, I and other blind users encountered a similar issue with the wordpress platform. We used a plugin called ozhAdmin to get around the problem. OzhAdmin expanded all the menus by default so we got bunches of links. I bring this up since this may be an easier solution to implement.

Just thinking alowd
Pranav