authorized networks

[quan89]

Huge noob when it comes to NAS devices and only have a fundamental knowledge of networking in general. I have 2 questions

First:

I'm in the NFS shares column

What exactly am I putting in the "authorized networks" box?

Second:

I will be using this NAS as a Plex Server to stream at home. Ideally I'd like to stream 1080p to 3 laptops and 1 desktop.

NAS specs are

Intel G540
12GB of Non-ECC ram
1 4tb WD red
Gigabyte H77M-D3H


Also have a mid 2009 MPB, Dell e6530, and a desktop that's more than capable of 1080p playback.

When I got the NAS up and running, I transferred over a 1080p movie, 720p tv show, and a SD movie.

I can't stream any of the 3 files smoothly to either laptop.

My brother told me I'm having playback problems due to the wireless signal, but I've always been able to stream to the laptops smoothly on the NAS4free install I once had on this same box.

Any troubleshooting steps I can take to figure out the problem?

I followed this guide
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkRZr7flz3w



And before anyone says it, I did search. The page kept timing out.

Thank you!

 

[cyberjock]

Well, as a rule here, if you are complaining about streaming over wireless, the answer you are going to get is "duh". Wireless doesn't necessarily stream HD very well. It will or won't stream properly depending on the bitrate.

My advice: plug it into wired. If it streams properly it's clear wireless a problem.

 

[quan89]

Little odd since I was able to stream with the nas4free box.

I tried 2 laptops wired and they played with no hiccup's

Thanks tho

Anyone can help with my first question?

 

[cyberjock]

You know the FreeNAS documentation explains every field and every window in FreeNAS, right? So you should know the answer if you check out the documentation... http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Unix_(NFS)_Shares

 

[quan89]

Yes, I know.

That's what I needed help with

This part "space delimited list of allowed network addresses in the form 1.2.3.0/24 where the number after the slash is a CIDR mask"

 

[cyberjock]

And you are wanting to know what? You don't understand CIDR mask? Google can answer that. :)

 

[quan89]

I was lost at what to input in that box along with the CIDR mask

Do I input the IP to the nas? My router IP?

 

[ZFS Noob]

Traditional network addressing is like this: you want to allow every host on your network to access your shares, so

• The network is 192.168.1.0
• The netmask is 255.255.255.0

The CIDR way to say this is 192.168.1.0/24. CIDR is another way of providing the network mask.
Wikipedia says it better:

Classless Inter-Domain Routing(CIDR) is a method for allocatingIP addressesand routingInternet Protocolpackets. TheInternet Engineering Task Forceintroduced CIDR in 1993 to replace the previous addressing architecture ofclassful networkdesign in theInternet. Its goal was to slow the growth ofrouting tableson routers across the Internet, and to help slow the rapidexhaustion of IPv4 addresses.[1][2]
IP addresses are described as consisting of two groups of bits in the address: the most significant bits are the network address, which identifies a whole network or subnet, and the least significant set forms the host identifier, which specifies a particular interface of a host on that network. This division is used as the basis of traffic routing between IP networks and for address allocation policies. Classful network design for IPv4 sized the network address as one or more 8-bit groups, resulting in the blocks of Class A, B, or C addresses. Classless Inter-Domain Routing allocates address space to Internet service providers and end users on any address bit boundary, instead of on 8-bit segments. In IPv6, however, the interface identifier has a fixed size of 64 bits by convention, and smaller subnets are never allocated to end users.
CIDR notationis a syntax of specifying IP addresses and their associated routing prefix. It appends a slash character to the address and the decimal number of leading bits of the routing prefix, e.g., 192.168.2.0/24 for IPv4, and 2001:db8::/32 for IPv6.