SMR technology is a timebomb waiting to go off in a ZFS file system. This quote from Slashdot... Want to know more? Start with this community thread Update: WD Red SMR Drive Compatibility with ZFS TrueCommand has a built-in check for known WD SMR drives on connected TrueNAS servers. However...

Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to select the version of Samba being used in a FreeNAS unit; To clarify, I would like to use 3.02, but at the moment my FreeNAS installation automatically uses 3.1.1. My understanding is we're able to use an auxiliary parameter for SMB1, but is it possible...

Hello, I'm doing a bunch of testing on FreeNAS 11.2-U6 and keep running into a weird problem so I figured I would post it. I have this particular system online strictly for testing and notice that when I put any kind of iSCSI load on the system the dashboard stops responding. I can still ping...

I recently build a NAS from an older PC. I had everything up and running well and could access all the shares within Windows. I did a few changes and reinstalled with dual boot flash drives. At first, everything was the same but I had a drive "degrade" for some reason, so I returned it and...

Hello everyone, I'm new to FreeNAS and I need some help with the configuration. I need to set permissions for each folder that is in the shared pool (e.g. user 1 can access folder 1 and 2, user 2 can access only folder 1). Is there a way to do that? Thanks! -Steve

Hello everyone As stated in the title, this is the error I see everytime I shutdown or restart my FreeNAS. Picture of it is attached. I've looked in the forum and found the following: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/rrdcached-plugin-failed-to-connect.76516/ Sadly, unticking and...

Hello the community, That is my first post here so I hope I will do it right. The title says it all. I have ordered a Dell R430 Server coming very soon (had a good deal on it) My goal is to populate it with as much drive as possible and run FreeNAS to run ZFS and share data across our Lan...

Motherboard - Supermicro X9DR-F+ CPUs - (2) XEON 2670 10c RAM - 8x8GB Samsung 1600 DDR3 SATA Expansion - Adaptec 24 SATA Card I have 2 iStarUSA Cages as well to add an extra 8 bays to the 6 Internal Slots I have. I have been running FreeNAS 11+ with little problems for a while now. When I...

Hello everyone, The company I work for recently took on a new client that is using FreeNAS for their shared company data. I have never used FreeNAS, so I am a complete noob, and don't really know where to start on troubleshooting the replication issues they are suddenly having. I can't seem...

Hallo. Ich habe für tägliche Backups eine USB Festplatte an meinen FreeNas 11.2 Server angeschlossen und ein Script geschrieben, das mittels Cron Job ausgeführt wird. Zusätzlich erstellt das Script eine Liste alle Filme auf dem Server und speichert es in einer TXT-Datei. Ich habe das Script in...

Hello, Currently in the midst of setting up a new Freenas system with some old and some new parts. I'm particularly interested in 10g connectivity options. Here's my proposed setup. Gigabyte Motherboard MB10-DS1 Xeon D-1521 32 gig ECC Ram 5 - 4TB drives - Raid Z2 Chelsio S310E-CR 10 NAS...

I just came across an Intel I7 6700 at work for free along with ten 2TBs HHDs. I know none of them are Nas grade hardware. But I'm not storing super important data. So I wont need ECC Ram either. I would like to make a FreeNas for shared files, Backups and use it as the storage array for the...

Hi everybody Im really interested in infiniband, and trying to use 40Gb but i dont want to go out and spend money on these cards only to find out they're not supported in freenas. Could you confirm whether infiniband cards will work on freenas and windows 10, and which are the best to go for...

salve ho installato freenas 11.2 con 16 gb di ram .. ma nel System Information ne vede solo 8 .. il bios della scheda madre vede 16 gb. scheda madre msi 970 gaming fx 8370

Hello all, I have two subnets on my LAN which are: 10.0.0.0/24 10.0.10.0/24 on my FreeNAS box I have configured one physical interface em0 via DHCP and one vlan interface (vlan10) with a static IP. I can ping both IPs from my machine which is on the 10.0.10.0/24 subnet without problems, but...

Hello, is the first time I install FreeNas and I have a problem .. in practice the first start asking me to access the web GUI to 0.0.0.0 and on the vodafone station was not connected any pc via LAN (which obviously works all .. cable etc. ) .. then looking on the net I manually set the IP ...

Здравствуйте, открыл FreeNAS для себя только недавно, так что не судите строго за может быть банальный и глупый вопрос, но стоит задача сделать сервер доступным с любого места где имеется интернет, имеется ввиду с любой точки мира. Как это можно сделать или возможно ли это вообще?

FreeNAS -> Help & Support -> Storage: I have a fresh FreeNAS 11.2 installation and have created a pool. I would like to create datasets -- some shared, others not. The web UI Storage -> Pools -> Add Dataset offers three choices for Share Type: Unix, Windows, and Mac. Is there a way to use...

So I recently upgraded from 9.3 to 11 and my old pool with a single UFS drive isn't loading. I saw UFS is pretty much gone now in freenas 11. Ok no problem, Its just a single backup disk anyway. However I've spent the last 5 hours trying to import the single disk back as a single drive ZFS but I...

So As You Can Read My Title, I Want To Shift My Current FreeNAS 11.2 BETA3 System To New Hardware. I'm Writing All Specs Below. Current FreeNAS: Processor: Intel G3260 RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR3 Motherboard: MSI H81M-E33 HDDs: 1x Seagate 160GB SATA2 (OS) 2x Seagate Barracuda 1TB...

Hello, I have been using FreeNas for a 1 1/2 years now and had upgraded to version 11.0 some time ago. I recently had a problem with usb boot drives that forced me to reinstall FreeNas 11 again, so I'm now running the latest 11.2. Upon doing so I've been trying to re-setup my VM's, but have...

Hallo liebe Comunity :-) Ich bin Auszubildender Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration im 1. Lehrjahr. Mein Ausbilder hat mir aufgetragen ein FreeNAS auf einem PowerEdge R510 zu Installieren. Ich habe dabei das ein oder andere problem festgestellt. Hier beschreibe ich nun so ausführlich wie...

Is there a way to view/pull the NAA for an iSCSI Extent from the freenas UI or through a REST API command? I am adding a large number of LUNs to some hosts from our FreeNAS appliance, and I'd like to find a way to match up Luns to Extents without shelling into the FreeNAS box.

root@unifi_controller:/usr/ports/net-mgmt/unifi5 # make /!\ ERROR: /!\ Ports Collection support for your FreeBSD version has ended, and no ports are guaranteed to build on this system. Please upgrade to a supported release. No support will be provided if you silence this message by defining...

Mi pregunta es la siguiente, tengo un freenas 11.1 le he conectadou un disco extra para compartir archivos, pero a este solo le puedo acceder mediante la red desde win 7 y win server 2008, al intentar acceder desde win xp win 2003 me aparece el sig mensaje. y de win 10.

I have a supermicro server that has two HBA controllers. It has 6 drives, two with 3TB, two 164GB and 2 1TB HDDs. Initially I was having trouble with getting the drives to show up but after using ctrl-c, I was able to enable the cards and see the hard drives connected. I installed FreeNas 11...

He estado buscando en internet el mejor documento or tutorial de como configurar freenas como DLNA server. He intentado seguir los pasos de este blog https://www.zufallsheld.de/2013/11/22/freenas-transmission-couchpotato-sickbeard-dlna-server/ pero la verdad no funciona como se espera. Hay...

Hello, We have FreeNAS-11.1-U5 with VMWare vCenter 6.5 / ESXi 6.5.0. Currently we are using NFS 3 but we would like to move to NFS 4.1. NFSv4 is enabled (Services -> NFS) but when creating new datastore in vSphere it is attached in read-only mode. While looking at vmkernel log...

Greetings everyone! I am very new to using FreeNAS, but I was able to setup a Plex server for home media use. The problem I'm having is that Plex has disappeared from the left menu and the plugin is set to OFF. When I try to set the plugin to ON, it doesn't start and it says "Some error...

Hi I got new FreeNAS and software installed. I have a NAS with 4 4TB hard drives. I want to use it for Fileserver storage, like storing of user data and other files. Can you help me with what Raid should I use and what type of File transfer protocol should be used for that. My NAS specs are: 4...

Hi all, Seeing an extremely strange issue in Premiere when working out of a SMB share. The SMB server is a FreeNAS 11 box. Clients are MacOS El Capitan. I realize this isn't a straight FreeNAS issue but I thought I'd put some feelers out. The issue is that when one clicks the first SMB share...

Last FreeNAS 11.1 image from here https://download.freenas.org/11/latest/x64/FreeNAS-11.1-U5.iso I have tried to install FreeNAS 11.1 on three different server in Hetzner DC. I installed both to USB stick, SATA drives and NVMe geoms. FreeBSD 11.1 runs well, with no issues at all, for many...

Hi all. In freenas-11-STABLE, when I try to run freenas-update from the shell, I am met with the following error: [root@freenas /mnt/NAS]# freenas-update check Update not permitted: b'Cannot open "/lib/libedit.so.7"' The error dialogs are pretty unhelpful at the command line, but I can get...

The editors need to be able to get folder sizes across the network but only get, either 'zero bytes' or an old size that stays the same. Is there a refresh file properties command? Any ideas? Thanks Storinator Q30 - FreeNas 11 - 10Gbe network - OSX 10.12.6

How can I get USB web camera device in VM?

Hey FreeNAS! Yesterday I installed FreeNAS 11 on two thumb drives attached to a server that handles 12 sata disks behind a storage controller configured there as a raid0 array and in FreeNAS itself configured as an raidZ3. Somehow the writing speed that it produces was around 40 mb/s, the same...

I can't figure out how to replace failed disk on encrypted volume with GUI. Error: Unable to GPT format the disk "da8" Disk da8 is a new drive and has no partition. Wipe disk from GUI also failed root@freenas:~ # gpart show da8 => 40 15628053088 da8 GPT (7.3T) 40 15628053088 -...

As a newbie I got a fairly inexpensive system for my first FreeNAS with following specs: ASROCK J3455-ITX Motherboad+CPU 3* 4TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD 2* 32 GB USB stick for Installatin Mediums 8 GB DDR3 1333MHz SO-DIMM we had lying around So I prepared an installation stick and it didn't...

Hello Freenas community, I am new here and this question has been asked already a "few" times. Unfortunately I have been 3 days non stop at it and just can't get it right. The idea: To have CIFS shares working with FreeIPA user authentication. The steps I've taken so far: Added cifs service...

I built a new system and installed FreeNAS on it. All has gone well. I created 2 Windows Server 2016 VMs (sorry - testing a work thing) and they installed and run fine. For a bit. And then they freeze or lose their network connectivity. RDP (after I enabled it) can't connect. VNC gets me...

Hi This is Karthik. I am a new member of this forum from today. We are Planing to build a new NAS for our Business use. In now we're using Windows for file sharing. (So i am Windows admin and i don't have any experience in linux and unix. I hope you're help me to implement NAS on my Company)...

I have successfully created a WebDAV server that can be mapped as a network drive on Windows, and my iPhone. I have also port forwarded it and that works (with HTTP and port 8080) I followed a tutorial on self signing a certificate, and installing the certificate on my computer to be able to...

I read the iocage docs, they say that you can install Linux aka Debian in the jail on FreeBSD. They link to this article http://devil-detail.blogspot.dk/2013/08/debian-linux-freebsd-jail-zfs.html how ever it seems a bit over the edge to do all that, since we can't install on host FreeNAS, so I...

Hello everyone, I just installed FreeNAS 11.1 on a HP Proliant Microserver. Works great, the install went flawlessly. So I named my server NAS_[My last name] However, in the network tab of the explorer (windows 10), I see TWO servers: a NAS_[my last name] and a NAS[My last name] It doesn't...

hi, Updating my NAS every time ends in a big mess :/ after Updating to freenas 11.1 i cant restart freenas and get a message: Timecounter "HPET" frequency 19200000 Hz quality 950. I use ASRock J3455-ITX with UEFI-BOOT and FreeNAS-11.0-U2. Can help anyone or have the same problem?

Hi All I have not been able to get the latest plex plugin to read files in Jail HP Microserver Gen8 Freenas 11.1 2 x 12TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD (Network Media Share) 1 x Samsung 850 256GB SSD (Jail) 8GB Ram I eventually loaded up an older version (0.9.14.6.1620) of the plex plugin as a...

Anyone have a problem with FreeNAS v11, S3 Service, no matter what you change the Port to it always stays on 9000? ie. I've changed it to 9001, 8080, 1008, and a few others. I've restarted the service and the machine. Still no matter what I change it to, it only allows it to be accessed at...

2017-12-31 noon UPDATE: Solved! When rolling back an OS to an earlier release (in my case to 11.0.U4 from 11.1) you CANNOT restore from the later release's backup; @Ericloewe pointed this out, and after doing a factory reset (on the 11.0.U4 install) I recovered from my 9.3 backup, let it do...

Hi all, Over the past little while I'v been having this issue with the active directory service on FreeNAS-11/11.1 where after a period of time the active directory service appears to fail and I get the error "WARNING: attemp 1 to recover service activedirectory" and it might do this up to 5...

I'm trying to setup SSH access to my FreeNAS using SSH public keys and I've run into a problem I've not been able to find a solution to. I have a user, mattias, to which I paste an RSA public key into the "SSH Public Key" field. Afterwards when I try to SSH ssh mattias@192.168.1.30 I get...