FreeNas over web

[damoc paul]

Hello,

I am decently new to FreeNas and FreeBSD.

The installation went smoothly and the web interface helped a lot, everything is working AOK.

On a second PC i want to access it over the internets from a single static address without any log in requirements (Annonymous with r/w), as a NAS, not FTP or ssh.

Its for testing purposes, the pc can stay without any protection for a few hours.

Help ?

 

[fracai]

It sounds like you understand that in general this is a bad idea. Even for a few hours you could be lucky enough for someone to notice and do something like delete your pool.

That said, I'd think all you need to do is forward the port from your router to your FreeNAS box. What do you mean by "as a NAS"? The administration interface?

Some ISPs block port 80 (and others like the SMTP ports because they don't want your running web and mail servers) so you might need to specify a different port on the router. Something like forwarding port 8090 on the router to port 80 on your NAS.

 

[gpsguy]

I got the impression that the OP wanted to have a CIFS share and allow anonymous access to it.

Danger, Will Robinson!


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[fracai]

Ah, the general concept remains the same though.

 

[damoc paul]

Hello again,

I managed to make an NFS share, so that the remote device can write on it without having to log on.

The thing is, whenever i go to freenas with windows explorer to view the files ( AKA \\ip.ip.ip.ip ) i only see the homes share, not the nfs one :(

I am aware that this is a huge security issue, but I`m honestly ok with it, after the test works properly i`ll wipe everything :)

 

[cyberjock]

because \\A.B.C.D is CIFS only. NFS requires different setup for sharing.