linux

  1. A

    How to create a bootable DOS disk (flash drive or image file) for BIOS update using DOSBox and FreeDOS on Linux

    I have seen others are using Rufus or Unetbootin to create bootable FreeDOS HD images and flash drives. However, Rufus is for Windows and Unetbootin is not in my Linux distribution’s official software channels, so I decided to embark on the adventure of pulling it off with what is available from...
  2. roachthehuman

    Mounting in Linux - Domain?

    Hi there. New to FreeNas but willing to learn. So far I've got my first NAS up and running and so far it works pretty good on my Windows computers. However, when I try to mount them in my Linux computers, it asks me what the "Domain" is when it asks for "Password required for share MYNAME on...
  3. H

    .db config export via shell?

    I borked my 11.2-U6. It was a permissions issue with Plex but in trying to fix it, I borked the webGUI permissions as well and now get a 404 NGINX error from any browser/device on my network (and I've tried them all). SSH is on and working, as well as my SMB shares. Wanting to grab the .db...
  4. Thund3rDuck

    Permisisons for Multi-OS environment

    Good evening, I have a mix of OS types (Windows, Apple, Linux) and I'm trying to understand how I should structure the permissions correctly for devices to use the SMB shares. I setup my users on my NAS and gave them the appropriate rights and setup SMB shares using Unix permissions. I am...
  5. M

    How to fix "cannot receive aclmode property on <poolname>: invalid property value" when replicating to linux

    This is not a question but an answer, as I stumbled several times over this problem and eventually found what I needed on google, but it was always very difficult to locate. So for everyone else who wants to replicate from their FreeNAS to a linux machine and who gets this error: cannot receive...
  6. zamana

    SOLVED Monitorr in jails: is there any alternative?

    Hi! I'm trying to install Monitorr in a jails on FreeNAS, and I was doing well, but I realized that Monitorr is "Linux thing": for example, it tries to get info from "/proc/meminfo", which doesn't exist in FreeBSD... So... Is there a way to simulate this? Is there another app like Monitorr...
  7. K

    SOLVED Linux, Windows and Mac Sharing

    Hi everyone! I've been using Freenas for about three months now. Unfortunately, last week my hdd (connected through a USB port) where the system was installed died. I took a DB config backup one week earlier the failure happened. It was a simple home config: two shared folders (/mnt/storage...
  8. E

    How is people dealing with VM and sharing?

    Hello, I have been using freenas last 6 months, so I am a little bit new still, I am not a big fan of bsd systems, just because already used to work on debian SOs, so I have been running VMs since then with byvhe. With this said, I am just mounting my datashares in my debian VMs with NFS and...
  9. dfkjhdbdf

    SMB Share Permission Error for Renaming Folders

    Dear all, I am very new to Linux and FreeNas. I currently am accessing my FreeNas through a Mac via SMB. Sometimes, for some reason, when I create a Folder and place files into the folder, I couldn't rename them - I will get a permission error stating that I do not have permission to rename...
  10. N

    ZFS Compatibility between FreeNAS & Linux

    Hi All I noticed from discussions on this forum that @Arwen is using ZFS on her linux laptop, so I decided to give ZFS on linux a shot for my home desktop PC. So far so good, but what about interoperability with FreeNAS ZFS. Since ZFS is coming from two development streams (FreeBSD/Linux...
  11. kevanbrown

    How to Create a Linux (CentOS) Jail

    Forgive me for my noobness with this question, but I've only ever dealt with FreeBSD-based jails. I need to create a Linux jail using CentOS and have no idea where to start with the process. Of course, if there was a wonderful, pre-created template for iocage I could just fetch, that'd be...
  12. A

    Which Linux Distro to use on VM

    I'm a Windows user who had dabbled with Linux and Hackintosh and I am wondering what the consensus is as to which distro to run in a VM? CentOS / UBUNTU / Linux Mint Any to stay away from?
  13. zamana

    SOLVED VM: can't even boot (Ubuntu) or install grub (Debian)

    Hi! I need a Linux machine in order to run Pi-Hole (there's no support for FreeBSD/NAS yet), and then I'm trying to setup a Linux VM. I was able to do this on a previous pure FreeBSD system using this tutorial (with some adjustments), but now, in FreeNAS, I can't get the same, even if I try to...
  14. N

    Running Linux Virtual Machines

    After wasting almost 2 days trying to get a Linux Virtual Machine to run, I set out to document the process so that hopefully others will be spared from the frustrations of this task. From what I can see I have no choice but to use UEFI if I'm going to use the GUI as the serial doesn't seem to...
  15. neutronis

    Unable to connect to an Active Directory authenticated SMB share from linux box

    I am able to connect to a guest share without a problem from linux but am unable to authenticate to a authenticated share. I have tried the following commands: mount -t cifs -o guest //nas/temp /mountest <-- This one works as this temp share I created is open to guest mount -t cifs -o...
  16. S

    Looking for some guidance on using Samba and NFS on the same dataset

    I have a handful of different Mac and Windows clients. Those work OK with Windows-style permissions--ACLs, etc., but I'm looking to also add in some CentOS Linux workstations for the same datasets. I've been having pretty strange problems on the Linux side with rendering video out of DaVinci...
  17. C

    Importing ZFS on Linux Pool

    Hey guys, been a long time ZFS and FreeNAS user. I also have used ZFS on ubuntu 14.04 for a few years but now I want to convert that system over to FreeNAS. Can anyone give me a best practices way to import the pool from my ubuntu install? Thanks in advance. chris
  18. Kennyvb8

    iocage - install Debian in jail on FreeBSD?

    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...
  19. T

    Hello from Stirling, UK

    Hi, This is my first FreeNAS (and indeed FreeBSD) project, but luckily I've been using Linux since the mid '90s... so I'm not a total noob to the CLI ;-) I'm currently making my home file-server ( http://www.gavsworld.net/?page=The%20Server ) more rugged, since CrashPlan have announced that...
  20. averyfreeman

    SOLVED For those who love ZFS ...

    # zpool status pool: pfSenseMirror state: ONLINE scan: scrub in progress since Sun Dec 24 21:54:29 2017 252M scanned out of 620M at 84.1M/s, 0h0m to go 0 repaired, 40.70% done config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM pfSenseMirror ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0...
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    Mounting CIFS w/ SMB3 to fstab

    I'm looking for the best fstab options for mounting CIFS to Linux Mint 18.2 (Ubuntu/Debian) with the highest security and performance. I noticed that the default mounting only worked when I set the minimum share level to LANMAN but hours later I was able to mount SMB2/3 by adding the "vers=3.0"...
  22. panther320

    FreeNAS SMB Shares Disappear from Network

    So a few weeks ago, I set up a FreeNas 11 box, mainly for use with my windows computers utilizing SMB. I set up my SMB shares after a long troubleshooting process with user permissions, and everything was working fine. That is, until I tried to access said share on my Linux Mint cinnamon box. I...
  23. C

    No Linux Jails on FreeNAS 11? Sadface...

    I'm happy with FreeNAS and FreeBSD. I think they're both great. I do wish BSD was a bit more mainstream, but hey things that work, work well. However, some things are just a pain to get around in BSD vs Linux. For example, I have nextcloud running in my standard jail. Runs great. However, most...
  24. VladTepes

    Best backup solution for me? (based on these needs...)

    I am hoping if I tell you what I am looking for in a local backup solution, someone will be able to recommend one to me. FREE I would like to be able to - back up my windows 10 system install so if it crashes or SSD fails I can copy it backl onto a new drive. (a full image of the approx 200GB...
  25. P

    Transmission can't write to disk (sorry but I can't get it to work)

    Hey guys. Sorry for such a general/basic question but I think I have done my absolute best in being able to solve all sorts of problems on my own up to this point. When it comes to Linux permissions I'm still quite a bit in the dark. To clarify I *have* read through this...
  26. Soloam

    Replace Jails With VM's in FreeNAS 11

    I was wondering, is there any one replacing all the Jails with a single VM? The Jail system is nice, having one single ip for one process, but the system is outdated, some jails take forever to update, and maintenance is very time consuming in some cases and the update process is very hard in...
  27. S

    Access guest VM port from network

    Greetings, I've managed to install a Linux Mint vm with bhyve in Freenas 11 and it is able to access the internet. Next I installed ArangoDb on the guest OS (Mint) and would like to be able to access it from other machines on my network. I assume this requires some sort of port forwarding...
  28. zamana

    Will my current ZFS under Linux be recognized by FreeNAS?

    Hi! Currently my NAS, build from scratch and based on an Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS, has a ZFS pool with 4 x 4TB disks. After installing FreeNAS, does this ZFS pool will be recognized or I will need to backup, create another ZFS under FreeNAS and rebuild the pool? Thanks. Regards.
  29. M

    Rsync SSH from NAS to Ubuntu - Automated

    There are a lot of articles showing how to go from linux to FreeNAS or Windows to FreeNAS but I haven't been able to find any guide that can help me Rsync through SSH from FreeNAS to a Linux. I'm trying to backup the FreeNAS system at my office to an offsite Ubuntu Server 14.04. If I need to...
  30. A

    Slow Performance - NFS on Windows and CIFS/SMB on Linux

    So I'm having some performance issues with my FreeNas box. I've created a basic two drive mirror. I make two datasets. I share one with NFS, the other with CIFS. Windows can copy to the CIFS share at 100+ MB/s. Windows then copies to the NFS share at ~25 MB/s. Linux (Debian Testing) copies to...
  31. C

    Kali on FreeNAS?

    Hi there! I was thinking about installing Kali Linux in a jail on my FreeNAS build, but when I tried it some time ago I couldn't get it to run. I'm looking to upgrade the machine and I was wondering whether someone here got Kali Linux working properly in a FreeNAS jail. If so, I'll get 16GB of...
  32. A

    SOLVED Can't write to cifs share from Linux

    I have just build a brand new file server to replace my old DroboFS. I have installed FreeNAS 9.10.1 on it. It has 4 WD Red disks in it. I have configured it via the wizard to raidz2 for now. I have setup a cifs share on the server and I can access the share from my Arch Linux box fine. Though I...
  33. Spencer Myers

    Help installing Game Server to FreeNAS

    Hello there! I'm looking to install a game server for ARK: Survival Evolved to my FreeNAS server. I've tried using their wiki with semi-augmented instructions for their linux setup, but haven't had much success. If someone could help me with a FreeNAS walkthrough for this kind of install...
  34. tumblingthrough

    SOLVED Can't mount NFS shares on my linux machine

    Looking for a bit of a reminder on how to do this. I've recently got a FreeNAS machine up and running and am trying to set it up in a similar way to my old Ubuntu server. My linux laptop is my main machine and using fstab in the past I've automated the mounting on boot of the the Ubuntu server...
  35. V

    Bacula plugin for backing up CentOS 7/ Ubuntu machine

    Hi, I want to take the backup of my CentOS 7 / Ubuntu data on FreeNAS 9.10 stable. I've created NFS share(service enabled) for the same & installed Bacula sd 5.2.12_3 plug in(enabled). Can you please guide me what needs to be done next to proceed for backup.
  36. Brandon Arnold

    FreeNAS as a scriptable system with a 'current' package repo

    Hi all, My WD MyBook is old and I want to solve a problem with my next NAS. The WD is configured for nightly rsync with an AWS cold volume. The distro is a flavor of debian-arm that is not kept well up-to-date in my experience, and any time I need a package that requires heavy updates to the...
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