Why's the dataset bigger than the volume?
I never really noticed this before, but isn't this a bit odd? vol1 is made up of 6x4TB HDDs in a raidz2, has 10GB reserved space configured, and dedupe disabled. The only thing I can think of as to why...
View ArticleAny plans to include byhve in FreeNAS?
I just spent some time mucking around with a virtualbox jail and thought "I hate virtualbox. It would be really cool to have FreeNAS be a bhyve host." Are there any concrete (or somewhat speculative)...
View Article[Freenas 9.2.1.7] Problem with pkg in Portjail
Hello, since my update to Freenas 9.2.1.7 i have some problems with my portjail. Everytime I use pkg, I got the message: "pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is no longer supported. Convert to the new reposit...
View Articleiscsi service fails to restart
FreeNAS-9.2.1.6-RELEASE-x64 (ddd1e39) Upon boot, the service is running, but nothing can connect. I will manually turn off the service (in the web gui) but when I tried to turn it back on, it fails. I...
View ArticleNFS Lock Manager missing
I am running two FreeNAS 9.2.1.5 file servers. I have asked already many questions about this machine so just look back posts if you need exact specifications. I tried to mount /home directory from my...
View ArticleRate my build!
Been doing a lot of reading and research and I think I have come up with a decent build. I already have 3xM1015s, a 24 bay rackmount case, a 750W power supply. I just need to upgrade my...
View ArticleUser Error - Need help adding a disk back to an unmounted zpool
Ok, I'm new to freenas and I have a small pool of 4 random sized drives. I was planning on removing one of the smaller ones and replacing it with a larger one. First I detached the pool, then I wiped...
View ArticleHow to import a SSL certificate signed by a CA?
Hi there I have a certificate authority and I created a certificate for my freenas server. When I try to import it, it says the private rsa or dsa key is not valid or not found. When I try to import a...
View ArticleNew build, comments and advices ?
Hi this is my first freeNAS machine. I have a nas4free machine and vill move all data to my freeNAS. After reading serveral guides, accepting advices on my previous build i come up with a complety new...
View ArticleM-ITX w/ onboard CPU, 6 SATA, and 32GB RAM?
Current Specs: E35M1-I 16GB RAM 6 x 3TB RAIDZ2 Lian Li PC-Q08 I'm thinking about rebuilding my NAS to improve performance but I want to keep it silent and ultra low power. I've got a 3 year old fanless...
View ArticleMiniDLNA with multiple media folders on different disks/volumes?
First, I'm brand new to FreeNAS (and NAS/severs as a whole), and should be talked to like I know nothing, even though I'm not Jon Snow. I have just about got my basic PC-linked storage needs sorted...
View ArticleUnable to detach volume
Hi everyone, I recently had a drive fail on my RAID 5 array, running on FreeNAS 9.1.1. I followed the interactions in the manual and successfully replaced the drive to restore the RAID array. However...
View Articlesmartd not logging?
I have one drive that tends to run a bit warm (idle at 37, peak of about 42), and so I wanted to log its temperature over the long haul, longer than "smartctl -l scttemp" will do. I tried configuring...
View ArticleHow to use Openvpn & ipfw in a jail so it only connects to the VPN
I wanted to use Openvpn with my Transmission plugin but didn't want any of my other network traffic to go through the VPN. Additionally, I didn't want Transmission to access the internet except through...
View ArticleFreeNAS Crashing?
Hello. I need some help please. For the past few day (a few days after updating to .7) my server has been crashing. When I try to get to the web GUI I am greeted with this... An error occurred. Sorry,...
View ArticleCan't connect to OpenLDAP server - silently fails
Hi all, I've got an OpenLDAP server running (which currently controls our VPN so I know it's working). I've entered the configuration and it seems to happily go off and do...something after I hit...
View ArticleHow to add a user/group to ACL settings?
Hello everyone, I'm running Freenas a few weeks now, and i'm running into some ACL problems. Currently i have the following datasets. For each dataset, i added a windows-share. Back-Up, Documents,...
View ArticleA newish user with a few questions and issues
Hi I appreciate your help in advance I've done some searching but I've been unable to find any type of resolution or clear explanations for the issues I'm experiencing. I will try to provide as much...
View ArticleLogin to SFTP/SSH using AD
Hi! I want to use SFTP in order to allow remote users to access their content from outside my local network. The problem is, using an AD account to login to SFTP/SSH does not seem to work. I also tried...
View ArticleCIF/windows share not seen on network
Hi, This is yet another thread seeking the wisdom of the community on creating CIF/windows shares. Fresh install of FreeNas 9.2.1.7 on a server machine. I tried to setup CIF/windows shared volume by -...
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