Download FreeNAS 0.68 RC1

With FreeNAS, a computer on the network can be used purely for data storage, also known as Network Attached Storage. The whole is based on a stripped-down FreeBSD installation and provided with a clear web interface. It has on-board support for CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication and Software RAID 0, 1 and 5. FreeNAS is small and can easily fit on a Compact Flash, the hard disk or a USB stick are installed. The developers have released the first release candidate of FreeNAS 0.68 with experimental support for active directory authentication. The announcement looks like this:

Need to be tested:

• MS domain authentication with Samba, FTP, SSH, etc…
  (I can’t compile the Samba PAM module with the samba latest release).
• Using it on a fresh install (should use the first NIC autodetected)

FreeNAS 0.68 (UNRELEASE!):

• Need a 32MB of minimal disk space for installing now (forget to mention it on previous release)
• Fixed without permission
• Fixed FTP anonymous login that was not disabled (thanks
• Added DHCP client option for LAN interface (WebgUI only). Thanks to Volker Theile
• Changed default samba buffer size to 16384
• Added “-maproot=root” to NFS configuration file
• Added option for not erasing the MBR when initializing disk: Some RAID controllers store important data in the MBR.
• Replace PHP 4 by PHP 5 (preparing rewriting the code with objects)
• Replace mini_httpd by lighttpd (preparing adding WebDAV)
• Upgrade samba 3.0.22 to samba 3.0.23 (ERROR to fix: WHERE is pam_winbind.so ??)
• CIFS: added recycle bin capabilities
• RSYNCD: added motd and maximum connections options
• FTP : re-added passive ip address and nat mode, permit to enable FXP
• Rewrite the NIC speed/duplex script configuration (Trying to resolve the bug number 1519939)
• Added capability to use a config file stored on FAT partition. Thanks to Niel Endres.
• Added NIC name be configured with “auto” for using the first NIC found. Thanks to Niel Endres.