Steps to create CIFS Share in FreeNAS (the instructions at the bottom are tailored for FreeNAS 8). Still, you must trust Pogoplug’s network security in order for you to access your local computer through Pogoplug software, because ultimately your data will travel through Pogoplug’s network before they reach the devices that you use outside of your local network. Of course, I’m still going to use Pogoplug when I travel abroad, because Pogoplug is great in allowing you to connect to local computers without opening up any port within your router (this means you don’t have to sacrifice your network security when sharing files between local network and the Internet). With this piece of information, we can acknowledge that data travel locally are always faster (i.e., not making a trip to the Internet first and so save time and bandwidth) and more secure if the local network is being secured correctly. Why is FreeNAS’s CIFS share is better than Pogoplug solution? Well, I like how my data don’t have to travel through Pogoplug’s servers that host outside of my local network in order for me to be able to share data between my local computers. FreeNAS has allowed me to set up CIFS share (Common Internet File System share) so I don’t have to rely on Pogoplug software to share data between my local computers. As I’m getting to know FreeNAS better, I begin to like it more than ever before.