Hello,
I have been reading up on NAS and FreeNAS for over 18 months before finally taking the plunge and buying hardware:
Supermicro X11SSM-F-O
Intel Pentium (G4560) 3.5GHz
Seasonic M12-II EVO 520W 80+ Bronze
2x 8GB DDR4 PC4-19200 2400MHz 288-pin UDIMM ECC Unbuffered Samsung
3 Seagate Iron Wolf 3TB
2 WD Red 3TB
2 SanDisk Ultra Fit 32 GB USB Flash Drive for boot
Fractal Design Node 804
FreeNAS 11.1 U4
At first it would not boot. SM and Mr Memory were very helpful. After a lot of tests the RAM was swapped to the above and all seemed good.
I updated the BIOS to 2.1a and ran stress tests for memory, cpu and other using Memtest, Breakin and Ultimate Boot CD, all good.
Installed FreeNAS, created user, group, Raid Z2 and a Windows dataset which I have configured as a Network Drive on a Windows 7 pc.
Before moving on to learning about SSH and scripts to tame my fans and fix the SMART reporting I decided to make the Passwords more secure using a password manager. AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM!
I cannot access the FreeNAS GUI, IPMI GUI or IPMI profile via Viewer on my pc. I connected a monitor direct to the server VGA port but only get a black screen. I checked the jumpers and VGA is enabled. SM previously said VGA is always enabled by default. Other people have reported problems with the VGA port.
Thus I cannot change the password/s! I doubt I can even start again as I need IPMI viewer to see the server booting up or to access the console. I hadn't quite round to enabling SSH in the GUI.
Can anyone help, please?
Thanks
J
I have been reading up on NAS and FreeNAS for over 18 months before finally taking the plunge and buying hardware:
Supermicro X11SSM-F-O
Intel Pentium (G4560) 3.5GHz
Seasonic M12-II EVO 520W 80+ Bronze
2x 8GB DDR4 PC4-19200 2400MHz 288-pin UDIMM ECC Unbuffered Samsung
3 Seagate Iron Wolf 3TB
2 WD Red 3TB
2 SanDisk Ultra Fit 32 GB USB Flash Drive for boot
Fractal Design Node 804
FreeNAS 11.1 U4
At first it would not boot. SM and Mr Memory were very helpful. After a lot of tests the RAM was swapped to the above and all seemed good.
I updated the BIOS to 2.1a and ran stress tests for memory, cpu and other using Memtest, Breakin and Ultimate Boot CD, all good.
Installed FreeNAS, created user, group, Raid Z2 and a Windows dataset which I have configured as a Network Drive on a Windows 7 pc.
Before moving on to learning about SSH and scripts to tame my fans and fix the SMART reporting I decided to make the Passwords more secure using a password manager. AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM!
I cannot access the FreeNAS GUI, IPMI GUI or IPMI profile via Viewer on my pc. I connected a monitor direct to the server VGA port but only get a black screen. I checked the jumpers and VGA is enabled. SM previously said VGA is always enabled by default. Other people have reported problems with the VGA port.
Thus I cannot change the password/s! I doubt I can even start again as I need IPMI viewer to see the server booting up or to access the console. I hadn't quite round to enabling SSH in the GUI.
Can anyone help, please?
Thanks
J