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TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a network attached storage (NAS) server appliance distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system

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Override template homedir on FreeNAS 11.3 joined in Active Directory

I've joined a FreeNAS 11.3 in an Active Directory and everything works as expected. But one feature that I'm really missing is some kind of override on mapped home directories for users. By default ...
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Offline Deduplication Software for ZFS

I do have a 300TB Freenas server to backup several linux nodes. Backup works with daily snapshot and rsync tasks. The user often move big datasets (2-5TB) between the server - so often big files are ...
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Strange STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED issue with SMB2 client and Freenas CIFS SHARE

I've recently started seeing some strange SMB2 Errors on Windows 10 PCs (all of them version 1903). The Fileserver is running FreeNAS-11.1-U7 (with ZFS Volumes) and CIFS Shares with Active Directory ...
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How can I stop Freenas from assigning two disks from different SATA controllers the same device number?

I have Freenas running in a VM in XCP-NG. I've followed the guides and I've dedicated a SATA controller to it using PCI-passthrough. Freenas correctly discovers its boot disk, which is virtual, and ...
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Interesting phenomenon when viewing .zfs snapshot folder on NFS share

We use a FreeNAS system as an NFS share and mount this share on several Linux systems. We make ZFS snapshots of the share in order to restore files if needed. With ZFS it is possible to make ...
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XenServer 6.5 iSCSI MPIO with point-to-point links (without a Switch)

I'm doing some experiment with iSCSI MPIO between FreeNAS 9.3 and two XenServer 6.5 hosts. I would like to use iSCSI MPIO to serve as VM storage. Pretty common environment, but without a switch to ...
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Replaced a dead disk in a ZFS pool. After resilvering finished, the status look weird :/

I replaced a dead disk in a ZFS pool (on FreeNAS-11.1-U6.3) following the hints I found at Need to replace disk in zpool ... confused ... # zpool replace raid2 gptid/f00-whatever-id-that-was-...
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FreeNAS iSCSI use - recommended percentage?

I have set up a FreeNAS system on a Dell R310 server with 4x4TB drives on a cross-flashed H200 controller in FreeNAS' own RAID10. I want to use that storage entirely for VM containers that run on ...
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Freenas - Safe to delete legacy datasets?

So, I updated a Freenas box to 10.2 "Corral" and now I see a few system datasets which seem to be not needed anymore. zfs list tank 3.58T 1.68T 11....
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How to diagnose netstat: no namelist

I had to replace an NIC on my HP Proliant Microserver, running FreeNAS 9.3 In my crashplan jail, I now get "netstat: no namelist" as a response when I execute the netstat command. How to I diagnose ...
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NAS solution for a synced two geo-location Active - Active

We are looking for an open source solution to NAS. We are going to use it on two different server farms with two different geo-location (expected capacity is 10TB). It should have the following ...
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Recovering data from TrueNAS pool in Ubuntu

I am having a heck of a time trying to get my data off my drives that were in a pool in TrueNAS. I installed Ubuntu on another drive in the same server and loaded Ubuntu 21.04 and installed zfsutils. ...
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Supermicro server hangs on boot with disks in HBA

I have a "homemade" Supermicro server with an X9D board in an 836 chassis that has two SSDs with freenas installed. It has a pass-through backplane, with 4 SATA HDDs running via the Intel C606 ...
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ZFS volume is not accessible

I'm using FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1. The server is used for storing VMWare vSphere virtual machines. There are two zvols: Lab and Edari. Both of them belong to the same pool, SSD-Storage. The problem is that ...
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ZFS (Freenas) off-lining an apparently healthy drive during scrub

I have a 4 disc RAIDZ config running on Freenas 9.1. Earlier I noticed that one of the drives had been taken offline. I ran smartctl, and all the discs passed SMART. A few days ago the machine had ...
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Virtualised SQL Server Cluster test environment error "originally formatted with sector size 4096"

I am trying to set up an environment for testing a clustered SQL Server upgrade, so I have built a replica here on VMware Workstation 11. I have provisioned 3 servers for this, two Windows Server ...
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FreeNAS AFP Doesn't Authenticate

I just set up a FreeNAS 8.0.3 server and am trying to use its AFP (Netatalk) service to access it via a Mac OS X Lion system. I created the ZFS volume, set its permissions to include my user in its ...
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FreeBSD istgt - how to limit iscsi target discoverability to IP address

How can I setup an ISCSI target that is only visible to a certain IP address? For example, if a client runs iscsiadm discover from 10.1.1.130, I only want target iqn.2011-03.domain.org.istgt.ded130 ...
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Can Tahoe-LAFS be used with FreeNAS (or OpenFiler) as a volume?

Is it possible to somehow attach a Tahoe-LAFS volume in to FreeNAS (or OpenFiler) and use it as part of a FreeNAS volume group?
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truenas NFS on kubernetes

I am using the following link to setup my k3s setup with Truenas. I am only interested in NFS. I will not be doing ISCSI. After I applied the "helm upgrade --install --create-namespace --values ...
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mellanox connectx-3 (cx312a) link down though light is blinking

I have a system running TrueNas Scale. For some odd reasons, the system does not see the link is up even though dmesg reports it up and the light is blinking on the port. I'm not sure if this is optic'...
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Multi-node OpenStack with iSCSI storage

I’m trying to deploy a multi-node OpenStack environment using Kolla, Ansible, and Ubuntu server. I successfully added a partition to my Cinder storage using iSCSI. But I can't configure OpenStack to ...
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Does the default zabbix SNMP trueNAS template catch disk failures?

I understand this might be a very basic question, but I would like to know the answer to this question before accidentally losing all the data on the NAS due to multiple drive failures with the first ...
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TrueNAS Scale update error: mount failed: Operation not permitted.​

I am unable to update from TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02.4 to Bluefin. Independently on whether I let the GUI download the update or whether I provide it manually, I get the following Error: [EFAULT] Invalid ...
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ZFS checksum error: how to recover from a replica?

ZFS can automatically repair checksum errors if the drive with the error is part of a pool set up with redundancy. What about the case when the checksum error is on a pool without redundancy, but ...
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VMware vSphere 7.0 U3 + TrueNAS Core 13.0: can't create VMFS6 datastore from TrueNAS iSCSI disk. Why?

I have a bare metal server running vSphere/ESXi 7.0 U3d, and a bare metal NAS running TrueNAS Core 13.0. The NAS has a single pool shared via iSCSI; the pool is running all defaults (lz4 compression+...
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FreeNAS unable to resolve hostnames, ping of any external IP returns host's ip instead

The internal IP address of my router changed, and ever since TrueNAS has been misbehaving. None of the jails can resolve a hostname anymore. In troubleshooting this, I discovered that the client ...
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Why is chmod returning 'no file or directory' while the file exists?

When setting up sonarr in truenas I get the error above. iocage exec radarr mkdir /usr/local/etc/rc.d nano /usr/local/etc/rc.d/radarr then I fill in the script I need to fill in, I save. Then I try ...
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Samba share available space is smaller than zfs poll size

I have a FreeNas server with zfs pool. Configuration: 6 x 2TB disks in RAIDZ2. 15.5 TB raw space of disks. # zpool list -v NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ FRAG ...
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Nextcloud in a FreeNAS jail served by NGINX behind a reverse proxy by IIS

My environment Windows 10 pro host pc at IP 192.168.2.11 FreeNAS running in VMWare Workstation on host pc at IP 192.168.2.13 Nextcloud instance in a FreeNAS jail at IP 192.168.2.37 (installed by ...
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How can we use LDAP to authenticate SMB share in FreeNAS?

SMB service has been enabled, I can share using freeNAS created users to authenticate SMB share. But how can we use LDAP to authenticate SMB shares? Current LDAP configuration in running on different ...
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How to extend Active-Active cluster with FreeNAS as shared storage?

I have two physical nodes powered by Ubuntu and connected to each other with Corosync. And I have the FreeNAS server as NAS. This NAS server mounted on every node - basic scenario. Now I'm not able ...
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FreeNAS + LAGG Slow Transfer?

I built a new file server that should be way overbuilt for its purpose. It has 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 v3, with 128GB of ram and it is running LCAP through an Intel X540T2 network card to a ...
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FreeNAS, add os mirror after installation

I have selected two usb sticks to install FreeNAS onto during instllation. Everything is setup now and working. Can I add a third usb stick as mirror now without reinstalling everything? If so, how? ...
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Is there a way to find out how much RAM ZFS snapshots are using?

We want to keep quite regular (5 minute) snapshots of certain zvols. But are also concerned about how long we should be keeping them and how much memory they use. Is there a way to check how much ...
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Can I upload a config file from a previous release in FreeNAS?

The motherboard in my FreeNAS system failed and I've since replaced it, now I'm in the process of installing FreeNAS using the most recent Release release (11.1) at the time of writing. Supposedly all ...
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Can't access FreeNAS Jail via router VPN

I have a VPN running on my Linksys router. I have been able to configure a client to connect to it, and can access my FreeNAS server via the web interface with no issues. I can also ping it. But, I ...
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Rsync changes folder and file names

Folders that were initially created by a Mac computer, when rsynced the names get changed. The folder names contain a special character that looks like a normal dash "-", example: 1222017, it gets ...
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should I upgrade Freenas security ?

I have a freenas server for almost a year now and this is the 3th time within the month that I've received a security email with allot of failed ssh log in attempts that aren't from me or anyone I ...
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System fails to boot after successful LSI 9211-8i firmware update

So, here we go. I purchased a used LSI 9211-8i to use in my NAS. I installed the card, attached a few drives, booted the system, and everything looked OK. I'm using FreeNAS and there was a warning ...
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How do audit file permissions changes over CIFS?

I have a few windows file servers but am slowly changing to Freenas/ZFS boxes which are working much better however I can't figure out how to audit when people change permissions to critical folders. ...
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NFSD lock up on FreeNAS 9.3

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2960 running FreeNAS 9.3, and a Dell PowerEdge 1955 Modular Chassis with a 5316M switch. I wanted to get a faster link between the two so I configured a LAGG with LACP over ...
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Attached disk does not appear in FreeNas UI disks section, but after create a volume it does, why?

When I attach a disk to my FreeNAS it does not appear in the user interface under the disks section when I click "View Disks". However, if I attempt to add a volume then I can select the disk in the ...
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How to restore ntfs partition table in freebsd

I accidentally deleted my partition table on my old disk through: gpart delete -i ada3 gpart destory ada3 Which contains all files on it. How can restore these data on this disk? I tried testdisk, ...
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Replacing a HDD in FreeNAS

I got a message that said one of my hard drive was degraded and im trying to figure out how to check which drive it is. I did zpool status and I got this zpool status pool: BiggyD state: ...
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SAMBA/LDAP authentication failed in FreeNAS

I got a FreeNAS server and I am trying to share folders using SAMBA. My users are in an OpenLDAP server. The OpenLDAP has the samba.schema loaded. I checked the sambaSID in my FreeNAS and it is the ...
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Formatting a FreeNAS ZFS volume as ext4 for Linux use?

I've setup a FreeNAS server with 6x 3TB drives for use as a backup NAS via iSCSI for a Linux server (Ubuntu 12.04). The FreeNAS setup was pretty straightforward and the logical step seemed to be to ...
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Network Performance / SMB-CIFS / Guidance

I'm an IT professional working out of my home office. I'm having some performance problems (NAS file copies) which I'm trying to isolate, using iperf. My question is on iperf. Infrastructure - ...
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Lycom PE-115 firware update possible? Otherwise `smartctl` on FreeNAS reports errors

I have Lycom PE-115 SATA 3 2 Port 6Gbps Low Profile PCI-e 2.0 Host Adapter in my machine running FreeNAS. It seem have some trouble with SMART of SanDisk SSD Plus I connected to it. I've seen reports ...
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FreeNAS: terrible FTP speeds ... what can we do?

We are running FreeNAS 8.2.0 (specs below), and getting extremely slow FTP performance. We have a 100/70mbps FIOS connection, yet FTP (remote) from the FreeNAS is never more than about 5mbps. We ...
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