Welcome! It’s been a while. I can imagine you eager and excitedly rubbing your hands together, anticipating a deep technical mind blowing masterpiece. Easy tiger. I’ll have a in-depth review of the current certification I’m pursuing from ELearnSecurity WAPTX – I believe it’s comprehensive and well worth the money thus far. Good for someone who’s got a solid handle on common web application attack vectors (Owasp 10 top) and need to get “to the next level”. Eventually I reached a point where I’d 90% of the time be repeating old material and get disinterested. This cert drops tons of advanced techniques and focuses on filter bypassing and exploit evasion. Now. Back to the topic at hand, this blog post.
There’s no secret I’m “frugal” – “cheap” – “tight” whatever you wanna call it. I’m amazed at the progress in science, physics, and technology that allows us to have a full fledged handheld computer that’s $35 also know as, the Raspberry Pi. USB + Ethernet + HDMI + Snappy ARM Processor. My favorite thing about them to me is what I like to call “swappiness” LOL. Since you can just burn and wipe the OS’es onto the SD card at your discretion you have unlimited possibilities! I’ve tested at least 10 thus far. My first Pi I setup as a Media Center OSMC. For the purpose of this tutorial we’ll chat about what I did for my 2nd Pi – Turning it into a NAS (Network Attached Storage).
Here’s the ingredients for your PI NAS
- Download OMV for Raspberry Pi onto a PC.
- Create a bootable USB drive with the ISO image. ( Win32diskimager)
- Connect the external hard drives to the Raspberry Pi using USB 3.0 connector.
- Plug the drive into the Raspberry Pi and switch it on.
- Select Install from the menu.
- Carefully follow the install wizard (each step is well explained).
- After updates have been installed, the server will reboot.
- Wait for OMV to finish booting.
- Login on the NAS, using the command line (type “root” and hit enter):
- User: root.
- Password: What you set during install.
- Run the command ifconfig to view the set IP address.
- Access the web interface by using the IP address in a browser on a PC.
- Log in to the web interface:
- User: admin
- Password: openmediavault
You will now have full access to OpenMediaVault on the Raspberry Pi and can configure it how you see fit. Take that! Major vendors, selling the NAS casings for 500$ and 300$/piece for the drives.
Do whatever you want at this point!
Common Post Install Task:
- Updated web and SSH credentials.
- Activate various protocols, including SSH, SMB, FTP.
- Create file systems for each drive or partition you wish to use.
- Create shared folders.
