FreeNAS on laptop with no ethernet port..

[Guinea55]

So I have freenas installed on a 1tb external hard drive and I am running the OS on my windows laptop, but the problem is, it has no ethernet port and I do not have a adapter.. Is there any way I can use wifi with freenas or connect it with USB or something so that I can get it on my LAN?

 

[melloa]

Sorry, but I'm afraid not. Do a search by WiFi and you will find several posts about it, like this one: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...e-to-create-a-wifi-router-with-freenas.23377/

 

[m0nkey_]

So I have freenas installed on a 1tb external hard drive and I am running the OS on my windows laptop, but the problem is, it has no ethernet port and I do not have a adapter.. Is there any way I can use wifi with freenas or connect it with USB or something so that I can get it on my LAN?

No.

 

[Guinea55]

Is there NAS software that I can put on the external hard drive that DOES support wireless networks?

 

[joeschmuck]

While I understand why you are doing this, it's just not the best idea and WiFi is very slow unless you have some of the new stuff which allows over 1Gbit transfer speeds. You said you have a windows laptop which suggests that you have windows installed. Your best option is to use the laptop running windows and then share the external drive to your LAN. Now you can backup/copy data to that external drive.

 

[pirateghost]

A. Installing FreeNAS on the external drive means it can't be used for storage. That's a wasted 1tb drive.

B. A laptop is not a good FreeNAS system, period, even if it had an Ethernet port.

C. You can just use Windows on the laptop and get the same functions since with a single drive you're missing out on the most important aspect of FreeNAS. ZFS.

 

[russnas]

Use nas4free or open media vault instead as your laptop will not meet the requirements for freenas.you will end up wasting time.

 

[m0nkey_]

Use nas4free or open media vault instead as your laptop will not meet the requirements for freenas.you will end up wasting time.

It'll barely meet the requirements for N4F or OMV.

 

[danb35]

Really, a computer intended to be a network server, that doesn't have a wired Ethernet jack, is simply not suitable for its task. It's that simple. Your servers need to be wired into your infrastructure. A laptop can be OK (at best) as a NAS, but not if you can't plug it into your network.

 

[joeschmuck]

You can use a USB to Ethernet adapter but some of them can be flaky.