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Installing Hard Drives

If you ordered a Mini FreeNAS® with hard drives,

they will already be installed in the drive trays. Insert them

into the drive bays, with the tray numbered ‘0’ at the bottom, followed by 1, 2, and 3 at the top. Drive

numbering is for your convenience only and has no bearing on the operation of your Mini FreeNAS®.

If you ordered a driveless Mini FreeNAS®,

your drive trays will be in the Mini FreeNAS® device, filled with

dummy drives secured by two screws each. Remove the dummy drives and use those screws and the

additional eight screws in the accessories kit to install your chosen drives into the drive carriers.

Plugging in your Mini FreeNAS® Appliance

To connect the appliance to your network and prepare it for configuration, perform the following steps. Refer

to page 4 for a guide to the back panel of your Mini FreeNAS.

Connect a monitor to the VGA port using a VGA cable, or any adapter from VGA to a video device you

have available.

Plug one end of an Ethernet cable into the Ethernet port. Connect the other end to a switch or router

connected in turn to the device you plan to use to configure your Mini FreeNAS.

Plug one end of the power cord into the back panel of the device and plug the other end into a power

socket or UPS device.

Plug the USB keyboard into the USB port on the back panel.

Summary of Contents for MIni FreeNAS

Page 1: ......

Page 2: ...able One 1 FreeNAS Quick Start Guide If you ordered a device pre populated with drives Four 4 drive trays populated with drives separated from the Mini FreeNAS device If you ordered a diskless model F...

Page 3: ...essories kit to install your chosen drives into the drive carriers Plugging in your Mini FreeNAS Appliance To connect the appliance to your network and prepare it for configuration perform the followi...

Page 4: ...Back Panel Layout and LED Indicators...

Page 5: ...he device will automatically receive an IP address which can be used to access the device from a web browser In the example shown in Figure 1 the device is reachable at http 10 2 1 231 If your network...

Page 6: ...y time but settings are only saved at the end First choose your time zone and whether you want to use a language other than English and keyboard layout other than the standard US one Click Next to pro...

Page 7: ...Permissions Next you will need to set up at least one share in order to store files on your Mini FreeNAS over the network On this screen choose a name for the share Windows shares are supported by all...

Page 8: ...s click Create User and Create Group to add them to the system You will be prompted to create a password to create a new user You may also choose what permissions are available to the user group and o...

Page 9: ...an alternate port enter it in Port to connect to If the mail server supports encrypted SMTP connections select the encryption type in the TLS SSL drop down menu If the mail server supports SMTP authen...

Page 10: ...AS In the address bar at the top enter followed by the hostname of your Mini FreeNAS Appliance freenas by default The current hostname also appears in the title bar of the browser window where you con...