[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...
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Hello! I have installed a virtualbox jail using the included Template. Since i have to configure the installation somewhat, I have to use VBoxManage inside the jail. Sadly, it doesn't work - VBoxManage...
View ArticleHow to check hard disk specifications
Hello I would like to know how to determine exakt disk specifcations on a system. I know that I can find Serial of the disk under Volumes, View Disk That is just the serials. It really dosent say what...
View ArticleNew Sharing Type: WebDAV!
The FreeBSD Development Team is happy to announce that, after years of requests, we are finally offering WebDAV support! See the new sharing type and associated service configuration in...
View Article[FreeNAS 9 Plugin] - MineOS
ToDo Next FreeNAS release which should include needed linprocfs API call https://github.com/freenas/freenas/commit/df46c1df6ad6bffa7b080feb0f3f5852ef04f9cd Add plugin to the FreeNAS Repo...
View ArticleCan't access web GUI
I'm having some difficulty accessing the Web GUI for my Freenas Setup. It's been working fine for the last month since I built it up until today. I was restarted it multiple times and even has a static...
View Articlewhen freenas reboots only i get this error
Hello, i'm not sure where to start. I only get this error when i reboot freenas. It seems to get stuck at "_". Any ideas what i can do to resolve this. I think it's related to usb3? Is there any logs I...
View Articlelocal network visible, cannot access repositories
Hello all. I am fresh off the boat into the world of NAS, I am learning Linux and FreeBSD gradually as a user. I believe I am slightly better than intermediate in networking. I enjoy challenges, and...
View Article[FreeNAS 9 Plugins] - SAB / SB / CP / HP / Maraschino / HTPC / Mylar / LL /...
SABnzbd / SickBeard / CouchPotato / Headphones / Maraschino / HTPC-Manager / Mylar / XDM / LazyLibrarian NOTES & TODO INSTALLATION & SETUP SOURCE ... [FreeNAS 9 Plugins] - SAB / SB / CP / HP /...
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I cannot create a Storage Volume.
I setup FreeNAS. I was worried about my 4 gigs of ram, so I used UFS. I put my 4 x 2Tb drives into a mirror . Anyway, after reading that ZFS should work fine in a home network I decided to put the four...
View ArticleCopying Files to ZFS Share
What is the best practice for copying files to an empty ZFS share after it has been created in FreeNAS? I ran rsync (rsync -va --progress /mnt/ntfs /mnt/zfsvolume) to copy files from a 1TB NTFS...
View ArticleHarddisk spindown made impossible
Hello, I have being a user of FreeNAS a very long time in a low-power NAS setup at home (2 mirror ZFS 500GB data disks + FreeNAS installed on a CF-card). I let my disks spin down after 30 minutes of...
View ArticleownCloud SSL self signed certs
For those of you who installed ownCloud from the FreeNAS plugin repo, you are likely experiencing problems syncing with ownCloud clients. The issue is related to a self signed cert that is installed...
View Article4 new WD Red drives, one doesnt report SN
Anyone ever seen this? I have a new setup that includes 4 new 3TB WD Red drives. Within FN, one of the drives (da0) doesn't report it's Serial Number. It seems to be operating perfectly fine with no...
View ArticleMixing drive speeds
I've read that it is not a good idea to mix drive speeds. My current pool is 6x3tb 7200RPM drives and I'm running out of space. I'm planning on buying 6 - 8 4TB drives that are 5900RPM. Will I have...
View ArticleCreate additional Admin users? Password Reset option?
Hi I have two questions Is there any way to give other users access to the admin console besides for the root user? 2nd question: Since we cannot use LDAP (since it requires samba schemas which we do...
View ArticleHello from Socal
Hi Guys I live in Southern California, I've been building computers for my self and family since 1998. I own a small business and have been using an infrant ready nas nv+ with 600GB running raid 5...
View ArticleCIFS share files vanish
Roughly every few weeks files and folders from two of our five shares vanish. On one the folders are left, and just the files vanish, on the other all the files and folders go (apart from the...
View ArticleKernel panic for unknown reason
I'm getting kernel panics and I don't understand why. In /var/log/messages they always occur in three's, as below: Aug 27 13:29:37 freenas smbd[37669]: [2014/08/27 13:29:37.455656, 0]...
View ArticleFreeNAS isn't what I expected?
Having read many other things online while trialing FreeNAS I’ve just read the very informative "FreeNAS guide presentation by CyberJock" and I'm concerned FreeNAS is not the low cost solution to make...
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