thepriceyman

I dont think freenas has proper HP Enterprise driver support - especially with the RAID cards they put in them Might be worth doing another ESXI and then giving all resources to the one VM on it minus the small amount of RAM / Disk (if installed locally / USB drive) that is required to run it.

As your dealing with enterprise kit quite often drivers are a tad annoying. Have you considered potentailly putting something like Microsoft Hyper-V on this / VmWare esxi? - would allow you to put any OS you like as a guest machine.

I would put in place DFS and have Roaming / Redirected folders in place on both servers means that if one server goes down for some odd reason or another the other server will stay alive and keep your shares working.

At work we have had a lot of dead ones.... Only reason why I prefer netgear! Never had a dud netgear! Not saying that they are crap or anything I just personally prefer netgear! (i personally use a TP-LINK router! / PFSENSE dependant on which network I'm on

Now thats more like it!

I was getting similar to what you had when I used to use powerline... I just ended up running a cable from the Router to the Office in the end!

Meh not that fond of TP-link I would just go for Netgear - TP link is a bit cheap and nasty unless you go to the more expensive ones - We use either Netgear / Cisco at work so I would go for a nice Netgear one! Plus cheaper if bought in uk for some reason https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-GS205-100UKS-Gigabit-Ethernet-Switch/dp/B00AYRZYG4/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1469802196&sr=1-1&keywords=Gigabit+Switch

FTP is an absoulute pain in the bum for port forwarding! There is two different types of FTP there is your bog standard port 21 / 20 (active) and then you have passive FTP which will use port 21 and then a RANDOM port on the server - it may be worth seeing if the router that you have has an inbuilt port forwrding section for commonly used ports and then using that rather than defining your own.

Ha fortunately I have tailed my wife into making the cocktails for us So taking to much time doesnt really matter!!!

Well Jagerbomb's are a little boring! (although guarenteed we will have many ) Got to have more themed fun ones!!

A few ways of doing this then - install Logmein Hamachi on either side creating a Virtual network that you are both on and you can literally browse to the IP address needed - however Logmein do seem to throttle this (if I remember correctly when I used to use it to update my minecraft server like 6 years ago) However recently I have looked into something called SoftEther - which essentially is VPN over HTTPS and its great! I would follow there instructions though : https://www.softether.org/

FreeNas would work or any old Linux box / Windows would work - if your not used to Linux I would just put a copy of Windows 7 on it assuming you have a licence and then jus create a folder on the route share call it what you like and then right lcick sharing and properties and then in permissions set the user that needs access to have full access permissions - you might want to turn Shadow Copy on on the C: (essentially means if something accidently gets deleted you have say 21 days of work available (changes included ) Think of it as fancy Recycling Bin for windows!

Yep correct!

Yes (the routers internal external ip) if that makes sense

Bloop!