Hello, I recently installed FreeNas 11.2 on a surplus Dell T3600 with 36gb ram, 4 core Xeon processor with a 635 watt power supply. The server OS is running off a Samsung EVO 128gb SSD connected to SATA port 0 on the Motherboard. Two of 3 8TB Western Digital Red NAS HDD are connected to the...

Hello all. After browsing the forums for quite some time, i can't find a good answer to my questions. I hope someone can help me :) FreeNAS 11 or just use Windows 10 with shared folders? At the moment i'm using a WD My cloud Mirror gen 1 NAS system, but its very slow so Plex server app is a...

Hello i dont know where else to ask for help! i would like to share smb to macOS. it works wonders. altho i would like to timemachine (backup) to smb aswell i can connect just fine to the shares, but smb/macOS doesnt prompt me for username and password, when adding the share to timemachine. it...

Hi Guys, Im new to the forum but unfortunately with a problem! I've had a search and a good google which seems to offer help for other platforms but i can't find anything relating to freenas. I have Freenas 11 and im using AFP to create a TM share I have managed to create 1x backup no...

EDIT: solution/workaround is the next post below. ---- I am performing initial setup of FreeNAS 11 and have some issues with TimeMachine and sharing (write permissions for users). I have 3 PC, two of which have to have time machines and all three should have access to the main data set. I have...

Hi there, I have had my trusty FreeNAS server working well for several years now - it handles most tasks and used to be my time machine server for my Mac too. However at the beginning of this year the Time Machine backups suddenly started working after I updated to 9.10.2-U2. In spite of...

Hello we use our Freenas for corporate Time Machine backups for our end users. Similarly we use carbonite for external users, on the carbonite account i receive weekly reports stating "Computer Johns-Dell Laptop has not been backed up in a week" or "all of your computers backed up this month and...

Hello guys! My post is related to multiple NICs on the server and how AFP binds with them. I have been using HP Mirco Server with LACP, and FreeNAS is primarily used as a TimeMachine server. How it works: 2 NICs aggregated via LACP and AFP bound on this. How it does NOT work: 2NICs...

I am new to FreeNAS. I have set up a HP Gen8 Microserver with an IBM compatible LSI 1015 SAS/SAN card. 4 3T drives in one RAIDZ volume with 2 datasets to eventually be used to back up two different Macs. FreeNAS-9.10.1-U2. The initial system I want to back up is an iMac running Sierra...

So I have a AFP share that I can access with my credentials, however the drive is shown as a question mark in finder. I don't see the drive in disk utility or when choosing a drive to back up to with Time Machine. I think it has something to do with permissions, but I can't find it. Any ideas...