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Pimp my FreeNAS!
So, mine's not quite ready, but does anyone want to share pictures of their most badass FreeNAS hardware/setup/lab?
View ArticleWhere is snmpd.conf
My guess is during the configuration of SNMP via GUI FreeNAS generates a snmpd.conf file. However I do not see the file in /usr/local/etc/ and more importantly find is not finding it neither in /usr...
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Separate physical network interface for Jail
Unfortunately I am not working as much as I wish with FreeNAS/BSD these days so I have rather silly question. I am using Monit (monitoring tool for up and down view) on two of file servers running...
View ArticleNo available disks in ZFS Volume Manager
Today downloaded 64 Bit ISO v 9.2.1.8, created installation CD, and installed on 8GB USB drive on Pentium 4 PC with 4 GB RAM (planning to upgrade to 8 GB). Boots fine and I can access GUI from browser...
View ArticleAuto-Mount Encrypted ZFS Fails, Can I Recover from FreeNas.db and geli.key?
About an hour ago, I swapped my old motherboard for an ASRock c2750d4i. After doing so, and reassembling my case, I booted up FreeNAS and was seeing an error about my ZRAID2 pool being "locked". The...
View ArticleWeb Shell Unresponsive
Urgh. I hate this problem. Shame on me for using the web shell at all. BUT, seeing as this has happened a couple times, I'd love to know if anyone has a solve. I was using iperf to test some throughput...
View ArticleHyper-V support as standard in new images
Hi guys, I've had a pretty rough time after upgrading to 9.2.1.7 and then 9.2.1.8 getting my Time Machine backups to work. I was formerly using 9.2.1.3 as a VM on Hyper-V and didn't run into hardly any...
View ArticleIntel S3700 as SLOG, viable?
Hi guys, I'm building a new FreeNAS box and we will get three Intel S3700 200GB SSDs. My idea was to put two for L2ARC and one for SLOG. I know that SLOGs should be SLC's, but we can't find any SLC...
View ArticleSerial port access?
I've been puzzling over this for quite a while, since documentation on the internet usually states things like "it should work out of the box as long as it's supported." I've recently acquired a nice,...
View ArticleDrive choice advice
Hey. I've been reading up on FreeNAS for a while and finally took the plunge and bought the hardware. I have worked in high level IT for almost a decade now so the hardware basics were easy, found a...
View ArticleSimple print server - How to
Long time lurker (FreeNAS 8.01 ....) but first time poster. I needed to add print server function to my FreeNAS and share my HP Deskjet 2020HC on the home network. After a 2 days struggle with CUPS,...
View ArticleHardware Tweaking Sticky?
I have been reading the threads for several weeks while I have been planning my first build. Am still reading them while I wait for parts to arrive. It seems to me it would be nice if there was some...
View ArticleWD Utility for RED drives with High Load Cycle Counts
WD has a utility to update RED drives that are experiencing high load cycle counts (LCC). It's called wd5741 and can be found at:...
View ArticleCIFS issue
I'd used FreeNAS from 9.0 to now, 9.2.1.6. The CIFS was good until I upgraded to 9.2.1.7 last month. After I upgraded the system to 9.2.1.7, I copied some files to FreeNAS, some files were copied,...
View Article(Tutorial) How To Install Plex in a Jail
How To Install Plex in a Jail: First off, navigate to your FreeNAS WebUI in your browser. Next, click on the "Jails" button on the top bar, and then click on the "Configuration" tab. From there, select...
View ArticleProblem Connecting to CIFS shares on OS X
Hi all, I am brand new to FreeNAS and just got my server up and running last night. I have set up my Volume/Datasets and created some CIFS shares. My Windows PCs have no issues connecting to the...
View ArticlePlex Web Interface Does Not Load
So I followed the video here: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnUWTliaOY and when I go to the web interface, it times out. Why does this happen? My IPv4 start address is 192.168.2.1 and it ends...
View ArticleiSCSI Differencing disks by snapshot?
I have a somewhat stupid idea I wanted to throw out there. Since ZFS is supposed to be copy-on-write, could I take a snapshot of a dataset that contains a single file-extent, and then use cloned...
View ArticleSome help with SSH.
I've been using password SSH login from a local machine on my network and I'd like to setup SSH keys with password authentication to lock SSH down a little further. I have generated rsa pub/private...
View ArticleAbout to pull the trigger on HDD's. Anything I should know?
I've finally found 3TB WD Red's for a decent price. I plan to buy 7 to go along with the one I already have. I'll be using them in a single ZoL vdev... I might be talking the talk but I'm still new to...
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