FreeNAS 9 network adapter comparability question
Hi, i had bad experience with FreeNAS 7 and my motherboard that not supported my network adapter so i had to buy PCI network adapter. now i want to replace my old machine and thinking of this...
View Articleconverting from old Freenas version to new
I have a server with dual drives that has been running for 6 years and we are starting to have issues with connecting to it. I wanted to just update everything with new hardware and newest version of...
View ArticleSSD for OS
I plan on starting a build and have 2 WD 4TB "Red" NAS Hard Drives. I also have an extra SSD drive i was using in a windows home server for the OS . Is there any advantage to using an SSD hard drive...
View ArticleFreeNas Tutorial step by step
Dear Friends For those who need assistance to install and configure FreeNas, in this link is a tutorial appropriate for the main functions that a home user need....
View ArticlePower outage during first setup, Now I cant log in.
I have been studying and decided to build my first Nas . As the title says ,I was just configuring and the power flashed out for 30 seconds maybe. I had setup the account, 2 users ,and set up volumes...
View ArticleM1015 vs M1115
Has anyone used the M1115 (newer version of M1015) with freenas, can it still be flashed to IT mode same as the M1015?
View Articlelinux CIFS clients corrupt ACL permissions on second write
I originally posted this in another thread, but at the recommendation of user anodos, I'm creating a new thread. We have a FreeNAS 9.2.1.5-RELASE instance with several CIFS shares. Accessing and using...
View Article[SOLVED] Time Machine doesn't find AFP share. Help please!!!
I've setup FreeNas 9.2.1.5 x 64 following the manual's instructions. However, my MacBookPro 11,3 Mavericks System Version: OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) Kernel Version: Darwin 13.3.0 doesn't want to find the AFP...
View ArticleDisk replace
Disk replacement failed: "invalid vdev specification, use '-f' to override the following errors:, /dev/gptid/1085557d-22b2-11e4-ad95-90e2ba84130a is part of active pool 'MP', "
View ArticleBackup config file every night automatically!
I've created a cron job that will automatically backup your config every night(or whenever you want). Here's how I did it: (the name of my zpool is tank, yours may vary so you will need to adjust the...
View ArticleWD Red Pros vs Blacks
Hey guys, I will be upgrading my FreeNAS soon, and want to know your thoughts. From what I have read, it seems that WD Blacks would do just fine, and this is what I have been leaning towards for...
View ArticleLoad xhci on startup
Just put my FreeNAS server into a new case which has USB3.0 front ports. My motherboard doesn't (SuperMicro X9SCM-F) so I bought a cheap USB3.0 pcie card. After reboot, I had to run kldload xhci for it...
View ArticleRaidZ 1
Bonjour a tous Je suis nouveau dans le domaine de freenas et je viens de m'installer un petit freenas sur base d'un ancien pc Dualboot avec 4G de ram et 3 DD de 1T chacun et la version 8 de l'os J'ai...
View ArticleConnection termination after several minutes of inactivity
Hello, i have an problem with my FreeNAS 9.2.1.7 x64. My NAS Server is build on ASRock E350M1 mainboard with 4GB DDR-3 RAM. Unfortunatelly, after some minutes of activity, the NAS doesn´t respond. I...
View Articlesam_rids_to_names: possible deadlock - trying to lookup SID
I was running 9.2.1.5 fine, no issues. Went to upgrade to 9.2.1.6 and I am getting this error below all the time in the console, Jul 4 21:30:30 freenas winbindd[8098]: sam_rids_to_names: possible...
View ArticleMixing WD4003FZEX & WD40EFRX in Raid Configuration
Hi All, Could you please let me know if the following drives can be mixed and used for NAS in Raid Mirror configuration? I have 2 pieces of WD RED 4TB and 2 pieces of WD BLACK 4 TB. Please let me know...
View ArticleTrouble with MiniDLNA configuration
Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to FreeNAS (just updated to 9.2.1.7) and having some problems with configuring the MiniDLNA (1.1.0) plugin. I installed it as a Plugin directly rather than through the...
View Articleimporting pool reboots freenas
I have a zfs pool which i raidz1 One drive dont report anymore to bios and is UNAVAIL in zpool import result. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- pool:...
View Articlenetwork card problem
I build my nas / plex server a few months back the original plan was to use Freenas but had problems with the onboard network card in both freenas and freebsd so built it using linux as I'm about to...
View ArticleNeed motherboard and memory for my new home server
I am build home server and looking for server motherboard and memory (8GB is enough ?) what i am looking for is Stability and performance, the motherboard and the memory will join to Intel Core i3-4150...
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