Need more in depth pfsense help!

Hi Tek Syndicate,

    I am a new and loyal fan and watching your pfsense video got me excited to try it out.  Getting it to work for basic use I have had no problem with but I do not want a basic router.  I want my pfsense box to act as a dhcp server for my network as well as assigning various devices on my network hostnames for easy ssh access.  for example I want to be able to name my media server media.kaidendomain.net or something like that and be able to ssh into media.kaidendomain.net as opposed to using an ip address.  I do not need to be able to get in from outside although setting up openVPN on a pfsense box for that purpose is something I am also interested in.  I am going to keep working on figuring it out but if I don't before you get this I would appreciate the help

For DHCP, add one under services -> DHCP server. Its pretty self explantry and will will in most values. You shouldn't need to add any of the WINS, DNS etc server if everything else works already.

Netbios names are set at the machines, so as long as they have names you should be able to SSH to them.

As for "media.kaidendomain.net" that is a FQDN and it requires that you have both that domain purchased and a local DNS server.

i set up pfsense in a virtual machine on my xenserver, the college only gives me one ip address and i wanted multiple virtual machines, so NAT. anyway, i found myself often times having to just explore the menus and find the things i wanted. dhcp i found was easy enough to setup. nat rules are really easy to for things like port forwarding. openvpn was a little tricky but i eventually got it going as well.