Jails w/ NAT not handling incoming packets
I will soon be moving to an environment where I don't control my LAN, and can't have jails with their own IPs. I enabled NAT on all my jails using the checkbox in the WebUI. Most everything was...
View Articleallow scanning from device on LAN
Hello again, I recently pit our freenas box on location and I have a piece of software called spiceworks that scans network devices. My security run email shows that spiceworks is trying to use ssh but...
View ArticleVery slow disk replacement/resilver (RAIDZ2)
Hey all! I had a disk that was showing some offline uncorrectable sectors. I ran the long smartctl test and it failed, so I RMA'd it and have replaced it in my pool. I used the GUI, and followed the...
View ArticleBest Chelsio or Intel 10GBe card (with recent chipset)
I'm trying to find out what is the best Chelsio or Intel 10GBe fcoe card for freenas 9.2.*.* I looked at the freebsd 9.2-RELEASE Hardware Notes and it seems that all the supported Chelsio and Intel...
View ArticleMove files between HDD in the NAS without using network
Hello everyone, hope you can help! I have a nas running FreeNas 9.2.1.5 with 3x 1TB HDD and they're not in any kind of RAID. Often I must move movies of 8gb (more or less) from the 1st HDD to the 2nd....
View ArticleChelsio T520-CR
I just installed a Chelsio T520-CR and the documentation from Chelsio said to add the following for Freebsd kernels: sysctl: kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9=262144 kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16=262144...
View ArticleMultiple User Groups Not Taking Affect
Hi, we are using, Freenas 9.2.1.7 which communicates with LDAP to control file permissions. We have Windows users in multiple groups. Some belong to Finance as their primary group and Admin as another...
View ArticleACL Permissions through Windows GUI, can only set on Domain PC
Hello, I'm experiencing something that seems a bit strange to me on the latest FreeNAS 9.2.1.7-Release. I have datasets that are set to use Windows ACL. I go to change the permissions through the...
View ArticleHow to install OpenVPN inside a jail in FreeNAS 9.2.1.6 with access to remote...
This tutorial will show you how to configure OpenVPN inside a jail so you can VPN to your home and access your local jails and other hosts and optionally, use it as a complete tunnel in case you're in...
View ArticleAmazon S3 Plugin for testing
Hi everyone, We've had someone submit an Amazon S3 plug-in for FreeNAS. For now, it can take a dataset and back it up to your S3. Please test and post feedback!...
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Load balancing a couple of CIFS shares
I'm pretty sure this isn't possible, but I thought it is worth asking. I have two FreeNAS servers (A) and (B). (A) is my primary server (B) is a ZFS replication target (A) has several heavily-used...
View ArticleCIFS (Windows sharing) guide
If you want to use FreeNAS as a Windows file server you will need to set up a CIFS share. CIFS sharing in FreeNAS uses Samba which is an open source implementation of SMB. SMB stands for "Server...
View ArticleIs BitTorrent Sync Plugin support torrents downloads ?
After watch the video BitTorrent Sync Plugin i noticed that this tutorial discuss with upload files via different platforms but didn't mention if this plugin is support torrents download.
View Articleistgt[3135] end of media & lu_disk_lbread() failed errors
I have 2 FreeNas setups nearly identical HP Proliant G5 with 8GB of RAM. Difference is in drives NAS1 has 4 x 460GB Crucial M550 Drives in a ZFS RaidZ1 config NAS2 has 4 x 750GB Hybrid Seagate SATA...
View ArticleClone Jail drive to change hardware.
My FreeNAS is an old Dell desktop P4 tower, and I want to move it temporarily to a small AMD embedded-style build I just did. I'm doing this to get immediate benefits in power usage and noise (not to...
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My plugin list is empty,is AppCafe down?
I've tried everything -refreshing, re-saving config etc but my plugin list remains stubbornly empty. Is http://www.appcafe.org/freenas/json server down? Or is it my network? I've tried connecting via...
View ArticlePlex Media Server not running
I have installed the plugin, and everything was setup correctly. It was all working fine, until today I was watching something and it just stopped. When I checked the FreeNAS web gui the plugin was...
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 ArticleNew ZFS Build - Low IOPS
Took one of our ZFS boxes down (8x RAIDZ3) and aimed to improve performance by upping the RAM from 16GB to 32GB and creating a RAID 1+0 array instead. It has the following spec: Xeon 1220L V2 32GB ECC...
View ArticleHelp please - New to FreeNAS and have very slow file transfer rate
Hi All I'm very now to the world of FreeNAS (well NAS in general infact), I've been looking a solution to my family media sharing requirements and FreeNAS seems to be the option form me. I've converted...
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