So far in the blog. we’ve dealt with personal shares, read-only shares and inaccessible shares. Now we want to create a share that FreeNAS users can use to share data with other FreeNAS users. Step 1: Create a share dataset Step 2: Assign ownership of the share dataset Make nobody the owner of share and freenas group owners. It …
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Month:April 2017
Plex Access to Media in Personal Shares
So, you’ve managed to follow the instructions to set up Plex to access media in a central repository. But, what about media located in personal shares that users would like to make available to Plex? Sure, you can move that media into the central repository, but your users would lose control over their media. This …
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Enable the Recycle Bin on FreeNAS Personal Shares
Shadow copies are really useful for accessing previous versions of a working document, but what happens if the working document is accidentally deleted? That’s where the recycle bin feature of FreeNAS shares allows you to recover a document that’s been deleted by accident. However, it is not enabled by default. It should be turned on when setting …
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Enabling Shadow Copies on FreeNAS Personal Shares
The aim of this exercise is to create shadow copies on personal FreeNAS shares at a maximum frequency of one every 10 minutes for the last 12 hours. The idea here is that my creative writing tends to be heavy and bursty, occurring over long hours in a single session. It’s on these occasions that …
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Enabling Shadow Copies in Windows 7
Curiously, Windows Protection is turned on for the system drive (C:) in Windows 7, but the Shadow Copy service is not running by default. To ensure that VSS service operates whenever the computer is on, change the service Startup type to Automatic (Delayed Start). By default, Windows shadow copies are created whenever a restore point …
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Personal Shares in FreeNAS
There are several advantages of using individual personal shares over home directories in FreeNAS. Refer to Home Directories in FreeNAS for more information. The trick in setting up personal shares is making sure they have the correct permissions set on them. Personal shares should be just that…personal. So they should not be accessible to everyone, just the …
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Home Directories in FreeNAS
I present home directories in FreeNAS as an academic exercise only. They appear to hold great promise. One of the benefits of home directories is that it’s not necessary to create shares for each individual. All that’s required is a share for the home root under which the individual directories reside. That’s where the promise ends …
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