I just installed FreeNAS on a spare machine I had at home. I really like the FTP feature that it has. I just wanted some help on how to set it up so I can access the server from outside the network.
So when I first set up FreeNAS I set the IP address to 192.168.1.250 to access it within my network. I'm thinking about using http://www.dyndns.com/ to access it from school or work. I created an account and got myself a domain name for my FTP myname.homeftp.net.
http://www.dyndns.com/ asks for the IP address. It has an autodetect feature, but when I click on it it gets the IP address of the machine I'm using. FreeNAS doesn't have a GUI and I cannot use a web browser.
***How do I know what the IP address is for my FreeNAS machine? (not the local IP address). This is so that I can use it at http://www.dyndns.com/.
Second how do I set up port forwarding? I'm using port 21 on FreeNAS. I guess I have to go to my router's admin page and change it.
Bottom line is that I want to link a domain name to my FreeNAS server. How do I go about it? Thank you.
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funtaff, won't that give me that IP of the computer I'm using? The problem is that FreeNAS doesn't have a browser. It's just a Unix based system. Can I just connect my laptop temporarily to the same ethernet cable just to get the IP address?
As far as my router I'm using a Linksys WRT54GL with the Tomato firmware. I guess I can figure out how to do the port forwarding on it with some general instructions.
Thanks.
I'm assuming you're on a home network, and FreeNAS and "the computer you are using" are on the same network. In this case, http://checkip.dyndns.com/
To find the internal address of the FreeNAS machine, just use nslookup or ping in a command window. You should know the address of it, or you wouldn't be able to connect to it at all.
The external address is what you setup for the domain / DNS for the public. Then you setup a port forwarding rule in the router, and it points to the internal address of the FreeNAS box.
For port forwarding with Tomato, look at this URL for something general:
http://www.pcwintech.com/n
Src Address = <blank>
Ext Ports = 21
Int Port = 21
Int Address = <internal IP of FreeNAS>
For the internal IP of the FreeNAS machine, if you don't know it - go to a command prompt and type "ping <freenas host>, and you'll see it in brackets in the first message from ping.
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by: funtaffPosted on 2009-01-23 at 11:15:36ID: 23452002
Sure, first of all you can check your IP by going to http://checkip.dyndns.com/
As for port forwarding on the router, which router do you have? Basically you tell it to forward port 21 to port 21 on your machine's internal IP.