I get a lot of Google searches relating to the Freecom Network Drive and Linux. They seem to relate to not being able to get it work properly, but I haven’t really posted much about the FND on Linux because… I just don’t use Linux. So for the benefit of my readers, I decided I’d take a leap of faith and download an ISO of Ubuntu just to see whether I could get it going.
And, frankly, I’m not totally sure what all the fuss is about. People seem to claim that they can’t access the drive or the config panel for it. But I didn’t have any problem at all – I just got Ubuntu working and connected to my wifi and it almost worked immediately. I could get to my network drive config panel at 192.168.1.2 (in my case, different users have different IPs) – just logged in as normal and it went easy peasy. Then as for getting to files, the Network window detected my drive most of the time and displayed all the folders and if not I could just do a local FTP and that worked just fine.
I’m not sure if people were/are having problems with other versions of Linux… but I mean it shouldn’t really make much difference. If you want to drop me a line or leave a comment with your Network Drive Ubuntu related problem and I’ll happily investigate for you. At the moment, I just don’t see much of a problem, so I need some more details.
If you are having problems, let me know and I’ll look into it for you.
could you help me please? I have no idea how to find the freecom returns form on their website if you could link me or give me some help that would be great thanks
I cannot seem to find the exact link online although I have used the returns system before. What you are looking for is the Freecom RMA.
If you contact Freecom support and ask for the RMA form, you just fill it in online and post it to them with the damaged drive. You will have to pay P&P.
But yes you will need to contact freecom support first – just use the details on freecom.com.
Hope that helps you.