TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system
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SSH attacks on Freenas
I had my freenas box set up using no-ip to forward ssh requests to my machine so that I could get to it from work, friends house, parents, etc. A couple days ago i noticed a large in crease in attempted logins and figured my box was probably getting…

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Cannot mount external FreeNAS NFS on XenServer VM or Dom0
I'm hoping someone can help identify a problem or at least send me in the right direction.
I've created an NFS share on FreeNAS. The server has an external IP. I can mount this on my Debian machine (which is on the local network) with:
mount -t nfs…

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Any disadvantage of running a virtual machine using files for its drives hosted on freenas/zfs?
I recently got tired of the really slow I/O reads and latency (10-30 MB/s read, not sure for latency but very slow) from a provider I rent a virtual machine from. He uses freenas, the virtual machine runs on linux. I know this is normal speeds for…

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Local file server needs root access to change permissions
The previous developers set up a local Linux file server (FreeNAS 8.1) and while we can log in through the username they provided we do not have root access so we can not change permissions or do anything outside of the user they gave us. Is there…

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Freenas and Active Directory
I'm trying to setup my Freenas server with Active Directory, it's connected fine and the following works:
[root@storage01] /# wbinfo -t
checking the trust secret for domain ISD via RPC calls succeeded
[root@storage01] /# wbinfo -g
*LIST OF…

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Attaching SATA device disturbs boot order
I'm running a Supermicro X7DCA board in a NAS server.
Whenever I plug in a sata disk the boot sequence goes out of order.
This is a problem, because it is running headless.
I've had this problem many times before with other consumer…

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FreeNAS FTP Error: 425 Unable to build data connection: Operation not permitted
When I try to connect to SSL enabled proftpd as installed on Freenas 8.3.0, I see my client feedback output saying that AUTH TLS is working, the connection goes encrypted (as confirmed by Wireshark) and everything goes as far as:
[2] MLSD
[2] 150…

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FreeNAS/FreeBSD: How to access status of ZFS volume from jail?
I am trying to set up NRPE to enable remote Nagios monitoring of a new FreeNAS 0.91 system. I mostly have this working. I can connect and inquire about basic information like number of processes, users, etc.
But I can't run zpool list to inquire…

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Which disk is FreeNAS booting from?
I've just installed FreeNAS to what I believe to be the USB stick. Is there anyway to tell for sure without rebooting the machine and removing the USB stick?

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FreeNAS ufs root fs bad, recover freenas-v1.db
I'm booting my FreeNAS from an USB stick. But it became bad and won't boot up.
bad dir ino {X} at offset {X}: mangled entry
I now attached the USB drive to a VM with FreeNAS to mount / or repair the fs on the stick with fsck.
After running fsck -y…

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CIFS share on Freenas not giving full control to AD users
I've managed to setup a FreeNAS server and connect it to AD. My problem comes when I try to edit permissions from windows. I already set the owner to be an AD user that I'm logged in with, but when I try to edit a dir ACL and apply the changes I…

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FreeNAS - how to "Exclude from file" in Rsyncd (GUI)
I am trying to set rsync tasks to Pull user profiles from 11 Windows machines running DeltaCopy Server and then configure ZFS periodic snapshot tasks for a backup solution. So far this has been working fine, although i would like to exclude certain…

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Suggestions for Freenas installation
What is the recommended way of running FreeNAS in a data center setting?
I need to build a storage server and I want to try using FreeNAS such that all the 8 drives are used for storage?
Hardware Specs:
Supermicro SS825TQ-X9SCA
Xeon E-1220V2
16GB…

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Getting rid of AD while keeping Domain permission functionality
Here's the go;
We have a server here at work, and its quite a powerful piece of kit. It would be better off being used as a workstation as we need the grunt. It is high-end consumer stuff so it would make this transition nicely.
All it is being used…

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ZFS Pool (Raidz2) of 23 disks + 1 spare. Good/Bad?
I'm creating ONE Raidz2 Pool with 23 drives and a hot spare. (I know the hot spare isn't fully supported yet but thats fine)
Is it a bad idea to use this many disks in a single pool?
What would the consequences be if I did do this?

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