Login to FreeNAS by opening your browser and going to the IP address of your NAS. It will sign you straight in as there are no sign-in credentials. You will have an alert advising you to set these.
Click on Account (top right) and edit Change Admin User and then Change Password.
Click on Network-Global Configuration enter your IPv4 Default Gateway and Nameservers. This is so FreeNAS can access the internet for plugins (to be covered in a later post).
Under Settings-General set the WebGUI IPv4 Address to be the fixed IP of the NAS box, Change your Timezone (possibly Keyboard Layout) then save.
You can configure FreeNAS to send out email alerts. To do this you have to give the root user an email address (found under Accounts-Users) then complete Settings-Email. If you use gmail then use the following
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| FreeNAS home screen |
Click on Network-Global Configuration enter your IPv4 Default Gateway and Nameservers. This is so FreeNAS can access the internet for plugins (to be covered in a later post).
Under Settings-General set the WebGUI IPv4 Address to be the fixed IP of the NAS box, Change your Timezone (possibly Keyboard Layout) then save.
You can configure FreeNAS to send out email alerts. To do this you have to give the root user an email address (found under Accounts-Users) then complete Settings-Email. If you use gmail then use the following
- Outgoing mail server - smtp.gmail.com
- Port to connect to - 587
- TLS/SSL - TSL
- Use SMTP Authentication - tick
- enter your gmail credentials
Click Send Test Mail and if all is well you will get a test mail sent to your gmail account. If this worked click Save.
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