I ran into an issue where I replaced a network card in a computer and the Ubuntu installation would not  display the new network card when running the command ‘ifconfig’.  Running ifconfig would only display the loopback interface ‘lo’.  I found that the network card had been recognized by Ubuntu but that my interface configuration
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This is a short video tutorial on how to configure an iTunes/DAAP server on your FreeNAS server.  This tutorial assumes that you have following the “Installing FreeNAS” tutorial that is also available in the tutorials section of this site.  This tutorial slightly touches on creating simple playlists on the server to make them available to all users.
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This is a short tutorial on setting up a FreeNas server.  This tutorial covers the installation of FreeNas on a single drive and enabling Samba to create a public share.  You can use this to share files between computers on your local network. This tutorial does not go into detail on all of the options
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I have almost nothing but good things to say about this particular Linux distro. I have used this distro plenty of times and never stuck with it, this time I think they have it right. FreeNAS is a Linux distro meant to be, as the name indicates, a Network Attached Storage server. It has support
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