Proto,
Thanks so much. This sounds like exactly what I was trying to set up.
My introduction to NAS was shopping for production boxes on the internet. As a consumer one of the features that attracted me to several models was a claim to function as a Cloud server. I really wanted to go with one of these. I have been a avid gamer for years now and have built several gaming computers for myself. As I looked closer I found that the production NAS boxes were way overpriced for the hardware that they contained. And as I read articles on building NAS enclosures it became clear that I could build one with much higher performance than the production models. This seemed important as my movie collection moves to Blu-Ray and I would need 56Mbps stream speeds to watch movies from my NAS. And Blu-Ray's would be filling external hard drives quickly so a larger single storage is appealing.
I decided to take a chance building this myself and hope that FreeNAS as an NAS OS would work well. Thanks to whoever wrote the FreeNAS 8.0.3 guide I was up and running on my LAN as a general consumer and a non network administrator very quickly and with out a lot of head scratching about the terminology.
Then I remember the claim to Cloud features advertised by the production manufacturers. Which led me here where I was immediately lost in a whole new language and area of computers.
Having read the introduction to "FreeNAS 8 Remote Sharing" it looks like the kind of guide that like the FreeNAS 8.0.3 should help lots of us more easily make our FreeNAS servers be as functional and available as possible. I look forward to continued reading and learning about this, new to me, area of computers.
As I said before my NAS is still in "teaching" mode while I wait for the arrival of my big drives. So going through the learning, testing, and experimenting provided by your Remote Sharing guide is something that I will go through with patience, minimal stress due to no fear of data loss, and hopefully providing a feedback perspective that other noobies can benefit from.
My internet computer (separate from my gaming/theater computer) runs Windows XP since it is only used for web browsing/downloading and a fast computer and the latest OS seemed unnecessary. It is what I will use to try to set this all up and is what I use to control my Router, NAS, and DSL modem. Also it is the OS my girlfriend has so I will need to be familiar with setting up remote sharing from a XP point of view for her.
Again I look forward to the learning and providing feedback to make your guide something so many of us need.
First feed back: Tiny typo.
I will update this tutorial when find mistakes and I will also post a set of videos elaborating...
Should be: I will update this tutorial when (I) find mistakes and I will also post a set of videos elaborating...
-- Climb
Aspiring master of networking and paragraphs.