ASRock C2550D4I vs ASRock C2750D4I
Hi I see a lot of C2750 builds. What are the advantages of the C2750 build vs the 2550 build? Is Freenas useful using more than 4 cores in regular loads and normal LAN speeds?
View ArticlePlugin, Shell Access and Firewall Security
I'm in love with FreeNAS. Unfortunately, over the last year I've become increasingly aware of the many security risks that seem to be overlooked by the community. I'm not saying that everyone is as...
View ArticleHow to restore encryption key when creating new boot disk?
I asked this in another thread but it was missed. Reading the FreeNAS FAQ, it says don't worry about cloning the boot disk, just create a new one and upload a copy of your config file. OK, but I don't...
View ArticleAvoton build
OK so I read the very helpful newbie PDF / understand ECC= mandatory and RAIDZ is dead, so got the following parts arriving... very excited! ASRock C2550D4I quad-core Kingston 2x8GB 1600MHz DDR3 ECC...
View ArticleStorage Solutions
Currently our household data is fragmanted amongst 4 cloud accounts and 3 computers so I've been thinking about localizing them. I would guesstimate the combined size to be ~4TB +/- 1TB. Current...
View ArticleHow to build Murmur (Mumble server) in a FreeNAS (FreeBSD) jail
Mods: I am not sure what the right place for this post is, so move it wherever you'd like. Jails are pretty sweet. The vast majority of people I see using jails on FreeNAS are doing things like pbi's...
View ArticleHow To: Install qBittorrent in a jail
I recently learned that in my original attempt to install qBittorrent from the package that I was attempting to do this in a standard jail. That won't work. You can only install ports inside a...
View ArticleFreeNAS 9.2.1.7 is now available
Hi folks, Well, we said 9.2.1.6 would be the last in the 9.2.1.x series, but CVE-2014-3560 (a possible remote Samba exploit) forced us to change those plans. Come and get it from here, as usual! While...
View ArticleVirtualBox Error - AIOMgr
I have run into some issues with the VirtualBox Jail being unstable. Here is the error from the Log: Code (text): 20:26:48.428660 VBVA: VRDP acceleration has been requested. 20:27:04.257411 VBVA: VRDP...
View ArticleInstalling VirtualBox Guest Additions
Sorry for the n00b question. Could someone please help me install the guest additions for a Windows 7 system in the VBox jail? I cannot seem to find where the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file is located in...
View ArticleDisk thrash causing video stutter.
Hi all, 8gb HP Microserver N54L (2.2ghz AMD dual core) 6x5TB Toshiba 7200 drives Recently upgraded from 1.5ghz N40L - it's faster. Anyhow, I use Locate32 under Windows to replace Windows file search,...
View ArticleFreeNAS crashes (CIFS) copying file from it's own share to another CIFS share
I have recently encountered the issue that FreeNAS is crashing in the following manner described above: copying files large or small, usually dies within a minute, this include unzipping archives...
View ArticleUpdate download??
Is it just me or is the download for the update not pushing? There is no link to the file and nothing popping up in either IE or Firefox that starts the download? What happen to the old option of being...
View ArticleQuickly search index of all files on nas?
Hi, sometimes i need to find that one file, and it would be great if the nas could build up a index every night of all the files so i could search and file a file instant. does that exist?
View ArticleHome Media Server FreeNAS Build Suggestions?
Looking to build a FreeNAS server for personal home use. I'm thinking RAIDZ3 which is likely overkill for my needs since most data will be from my media server and only some data (small percentage)...
View Article[How To] Hard Drive Burn-In Testing
jgreco did a nice system build/test/burn-in guide here, but I (and many others) found the details a bit lacking in the hard drive section. He mentions S.M.A.R.T. tests, but doesn't go over how to run...
View ArticleFirmware Updates to LSI HBA?
Got some new LSI HBA cards for some new setups I'm doing. In my older servers I'm not sure what version of the IT firmware they are running. Seems like the suggested version of the firmware is version...
View ArticleFiles in CIFS share with identical ACLs - different permissions behaviour
In case it's relevant, I upgraded to FreeNAS-9.2.1.7-RELEASE-x64 (fdbe9a0) a few days after installing FreeNAS-9.2.1.6-RELEASE-x64 (ddd1e39) on a new server because of bug #5054 (by the way, I found...
View ArticleEmpty .recycle after X amount of time
I know there was a script but I can't find it or find the instructions but I want to use the recycle feature and set the files and folders in .recycle to delete permanently after 7 days. I'm using 9.1.1.
View ArticleFurther Admin/root users?
Hi guys, I am just new to FreeNAS. So what is this thread about? We're going to setup FreeNAS for our shared flat - a big one - and now I want to give some more users than root the right to access the...
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