FreeNAS is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system.
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Renaming files over a share on FreeNAS
I've just finished spinning up a FreeNAS install for various install ISOs, tools, etc for our team. The box is a small HP microserver with 500 gig of disk total, set up in a RAID-Z ZFS pool.
I've ...
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Can I install an alternative ftp server on FreeNAS? [closed]
The built-in FTP server on FreeNAS is not great. We need a way where our staff can easily and quickly create/edit FTP users, without having to log in to the admin panel.
Is it possible to run ...
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How can I get FreeNAS and pfSense to report more using SNMP?
I have two servers which run variants of FreeBSD: One is a pfSense router and one is a FreeNAS 8 server. Both these servers run SNMP, and I am collecting and graphing their information using a third ...
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Home Whitebox ESXi with FreeNAS handling local storage [closed]
I'm kind of new to ESXi, FreeNas, and really anything beyond home Windows support. Please forgive me for my level of knowledge, but I'm reading alot and trying to learn. This seems like a fairly large ...
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I can't access a file server via FTP or SFTP. I've forwarded to the appropriate ports.
I've done this hundreds of times before. I have multiple Ubuntu servers running misc tasks at any given time that connect via SFTP daily.
For some reason my new FreeNAS system will not connect ...
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FreeNAS: Properly eject/unmount USB drive
What is the recommended way for removing external disks in FreeNAS 8?
I use an external drive to create an offline backup via rsync using the CLI.
Attaching a USB drive to a FreeNAS 8 server makes ...
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Linux Software RAID (mdadm) vs ZFS Z-Raid for file server [closed]
I recently had a bit of a scare with my software RAID 5 array becoming degraded. I was able to add the drive back into the array, but it got me thinking about trying something different.
I am ...
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How to make FreeNAS 8.3 working with both Active Directory and Work Group
I have gone through a couple of rebuilds finally found a way to make FreeNAS work for both Active Directory and Work Group users. The trick is FreeNAS 8.3 doesn't work with AD if your disk is UFS ...
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ZFS iSCSI and free capacity in VMFS
I use ZFS in FreeNAS 8.0.4 and use iSCSI to provide a LUN to Vmware ESXi 5.0.
I post it at http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?10990-Memory-utilization-and-performance-problem/page4, but I ...
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Host name issue with FreeNAS [closed]
I have set up a freenas server. Now, I have assigned it's default hostname which is freenas. I have configured a share (CIFS). Everything works fine, but out of the blue, the system refuses connection ...
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Can't connect to Freenas over public IP Adress
I have built a freenas server. It's behind a router and i a modified a NAT setting that allowed the server to be assigned with the router's public IP adress.
Now, i get an error when I connect to it ...
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ZFS / FreeNAS - Matching Config Performance Discrepancy
I have 2 new servers with the exact same hardware running FreeNAS. There are 30 4TB drives in each enclosure. Each has the exact same zpool configuration (5x 5 4TB drive RAIDZ volumes, 3 spares, ...
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How to delete temp files reported as corrupt by zpool status
I have just upgraded from FreeNAS 8.0.2 to 8.3.0 Release-p1.
After the update reportedly succeeded I was going to upgrade the ZFS pool from ZFSv15 to ZFSv28. First, I checked the status of zpool. At ...
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FreeNAS replication over a WAN link
I am redesigning a network as such: One Server 2012 essentials domain controller and three backup servers spread over three geographical locations (one of which will be with the DC).
For the purpose ...
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Auto mounting Network Drive? [closed]
I have built a freenas based NAS. It's configured correctly, but how i force windows to automount on login with specific credentials?
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Can I have two zpools using different ZFS version on one server?
I just upgraded from FreeNAS 0.7.2 to NAS4Free 9.1 and have an old ZFS pool imported. Freenas used ZFS v15 and Nas4free is using v28. I would like to wait a bit before upgrading, but have a new disc I ...
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Freenas ZFS creation error
I'm using a fresh installation of FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-p1-x64 (r12825) and I've got a problem with the zfs setup.
For example: When I create a new ZFS volume using the GUI with my 2TB harddrive the ...
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FreeNAS: Renaming a zpool
Now that our server is set up, I would like to rename our zpools.
I read somewhere that the way to do this is export & re-import under the new name. But will all my mount points and shares remain ...
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FreeNAS - can't start ftp service
I am trying to activate the ftp service on our FreeNAS, but I keep getting
Dec 5 15:44:20 Wheelhouse NAS notifier: - Fatal: error processing configuration file '/usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf'
Dec 5 ...
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Freenas - Expanding volume
We currently have a server with 5x3TB disks configured as a RAIDZ:
zpool status
pool: raid-5x3
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE ...
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How do I connect my FreeNAS File Server to my Mac OS X Directory Server?
I am trying to connect my File Server (FreeNAS 8.0.1 / 8.2-RELEASE-p7) with my Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Directory Server's Open Directory... I know that Mac OS X provides an LDAP service via which other ...
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Non-ECC memory with ZFS: a stupid idea?
I have a new server and am planning to upgrade the paltry 2 GB of memory to the maximum of 16 GB. (Theoretically 8 GB is the limit, but empirically 16 GB has been shown to work.) Some guides advise ...
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What does the FreeBSD kernel message “vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 5” mean?
Our FreeNAS file server's /var/log/messages and dmesg logs are filling up with:
Nov 28 14:50:00 chef kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: I/O error 5
Nov 28 14:50:00 chef kernel: vnode_pager_putpages: ...
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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 ...
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Linking FreeNAS Boxes
I have two different FreeNAS boxes that are being used for storage. It is possible to link them in a manner that the linked connection can be presented as a single storage destination for clients? ...
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FreeNAS Replication Issues?
Trying to test replication between two FreeNAS boxes, and one side is coming up with the following error when I try to put in the SSH:
"getaddrinfo freenas1.local: hostname nor servname provided, or ...
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Too much free space on FreeNAS - ZFS
I have a FreeNAS server with 3 x 2 To disks in raidz1. I would expect to have about 4 To of space available. When I run zpool list I get:
[root@freenas] ~# zpool list
NAME SIZE USED AVAIL ...
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Shared Storage for XenServer FreeNAS, StarWind or OpenFiler [closed]
I am looking to set up a share storage for our servers in data center.
Environments:
4 x Citrix XenServers (Free version) will be running around 30 VMs. Some VMs are heavy websites that have 5GB ...
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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 ...
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FreeNAS share for multiple clients
I'm setting up a freenas box. I need both windows and mac machines to access the volume. The documentation says not to set up 2 shares (cifs and afp) but i'm having problems figuring out how to share ...
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Zfs Drive config on FreeNas
Couple of related questions.
Background: I have a stock of drives lying about that I want to use in a HP Proliant Microserver which has a 4 slot SAS cage with FreeNas. I don't want to spend any more ...
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ZFS Pool (Raidz2) of 23 disks + 1 spare. Good/Bad? [closed]
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 ...
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Can I use google aps login to authenticate users in FreeNAS?
I want to setup FreeNAS as a central file repository for all my employees to access company related data. A lot of our infrastructure operates on Google Apps including Android phones. I would like to ...
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It is possible to put FreeNAS as Auth Server (SMB or LDAP), File server and Ubuntu as “Client” (Kerberos auth-pam)?
I want to configure my FreeNAS server as authentication server (user FreeNAS local user's to auth into ubuntu clients) and NAS server, of course. I have Ubuntu as clients and they are booting over ...
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NAS4Free disk encryption and ZFS error
I have installed a NAS4Free on a VM, and as recommended, I installed it on a 1GB virtual disk, and assigned another disk 500GB to this VM for file storage.
I have created the disk, encrypted it, ...
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Understanding the concept: Bare-metal VMware ESXi 5.0 with FreeNAS guest VM and iSCSI
I have a test setup (HP Microserver) with just a single disk at the moment and have ESXi 5.0 bare-metal installed on a USB flash drive and a FreeNAS 8 VM created as a 2GB install, but now I'm at a ...
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Shell script to fix bad filenames? [closed]
I'm IT at my small firm; and, despite my dire warnings, everyone puts files on the server with awful names, including leading & trailing spaces, bad characters (including \ ; / + . < > - ...
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What is a “hot spare” on FreeNAS?
What is a "hot spare" with regard to ZFS RAIDZ on FreeNAS?
I'm hoping that it means an extra, attached disk that can automatically take over for a failed disk in the RAID ... ?
If so, how do I set ...
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FreeNAS confusion: not sure what happened. raidz1 “DEGRADED”, disk “FAULTED”
Sorry for the long narrative, but I'm thoroughly confused.
I'm using FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p2-x64 (11367) on a box with 5x3TB SATA disks configured as a raidz volume.
A few days ago, the console ...
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FreeNAS: How to increase scrub 'threshold'?
My NAS box is set to default scrub threshold every 35 days.
How do I change it to scrub every Saturday night? Do I need to create a cron job?
I'm on FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p2-x64 (11367)
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FreeNAS Setup (hardware & volume setup)
I recently decided to set up a FreeNAS box for my storage needs using a combination of new parts and parts I already have.
First, I'd like some help to pick the correct hardware. What I have in mind ...
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Can I trust that ZFS is consistent between Linux and FreeBSD?
I'm planning to build a FreeNAS box sometime soon, but if ZFS on Linux eventually proves to be reliable, I might want to switch, just to have a more familiar OS.
So I'm wondering if I can trust that ...
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Import Active Directory users into Unix/Linux/FreeBSD group
I need to have FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE p9 (running FreeNAS) import or associate Active Directory users (or Security Group) with a Unix/FreeBSD group. This way I can use FreeBSD group(s) security on a ...
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FreeNAS ZFS Kernel Panic
I'm running FreeNAS 8 and my computer had a hard reset from a power outage and now every time I try to boot I get the following error message:
Error Message: panic: zfs_replay_acl_v0:898: unsupported ...
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FreeNAS 8.0.4 time freeze
I have a problem with my FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64. We did the upgrade from Windows server 2008 for the file system and so far we have been impress of the results. One bad problem is that randomly the ...
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Carp kernel module missing from FreeNAS?
My FreeBSD knowledge is some what limited. Im looking to have a failover FreeNAS systsem.
Im folllowing this, example here, but is doesnt look like the Carp module is available.
If that is true, ...
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Raidz in FreeNAS eating more space than expected
I just got 6 new 2TB drives, and added them to my FreeNAS box. I have only dealt with RAID1 previously, and each setup has given what I was expecting.
However, with the 6*2TB drives, I wanted to ...
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Converting UTF-8 NFD filenames to UTF-8 NFC, in either rsync or afpd
I have a home file server running FreeNAS 8. A few days ago I used rsync to upload my entire iTunes library from Mac so that I could load my library over the network instead of off a slow USB drive. ...
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Disk IO slow on ESXi, even slower on a VM (freeNAS + iSCSI)
I have a server with ESXi 5 and iSCSI attached network storage. The storage server has 4x1Tb SATA II disks in Raid-Z on freenas 8.0.4. Those two machines are connected to each other with Gigabit ...
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FreeNas 7.x - Create user via SSH
Hello i'm using FreeNas 7.x
I need to access my webadmin-interface but i can't login with my credentials (that works with SSH). I've SSH Access, is it possibile to create a user (with access to ...
