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Originally Posted by dooper786
Hi all,
I have recently replaced my aging P3 system with a new lappy. What im now looking for is a storage device eg a cased hard drive, which i can plug into my wireless router and be then able to read and write to that device wirelessly (and wired when necessary) from my laptop.
The storage device would plug into my router via an ethernet cable. If i wanted to i could ethernet directly from the laptop to the storage device,but most of the time, id like to wirelessly connected to my router from the laptop and be able to access the storage device which is wired to the router.
Can this be done and can anyone suggest a product?
ta
joe
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until (and perhaps instead of) you get one of those consumer NAS everyones told you about , just go and get the ISO of FreeNAS
http://www.freenas.org/
and use your old machine as a free one, its VERY GOOD, and easy to use once you have booted ,its a liveCD so no messing about installing just to try, 10 minutes and your up and working.
"Welcome to FreeNAS FreeNAS is a free NAS (
Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.
The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on
M0n0wall. "
