Posts Tagged ‘freeNAS’

As previously mentioned, OS X Lion does not support logging into NAS boxes running Samba or AFP servers that employ the DHCAST128 authentication method. Apple documented this as a security update, in which they outright disabled DHCAST128 in Lion. People who are running type of NAS system – FreeNAS or store bought boxes will not work [...]

Hello y’all! It’s been a while since my last post. but it looks like there is still steady traffic to the site, which is pleasantly surprising! So thank you all very much! Today, Apple shipped MacOS X Lion via the Mac AppStore. It sells for $29.99 USD, and it is topping the charts at the [...]

There’s something to celebrate this month – release of FreeNAS 8.0 Previously, the FreeNAS project has stuck with the decimal 0.x scheme for build numbers. the latest nightly build we used for the DIY storage appliance was 0.7.2. Since then, the number jumped from 0.x to 8.0, with 8.1 baking in the oven. Taking a [...]

There is a newer version of this build. Check it out! I apologize to everyone for the looooonnnggg wait for this post. I have swapped out a few hardware components as well as OS for this NAS build. It wasn’t all pretty… and at times it felt frustrating… However, my NAS box and I have [...]