Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you want to access private network resources securely using subdomains (e.g. https://subdomain.mydomain.com.au) or subdirectories (e.g. https://mydomain.com.au/subdirectory) rather than with IP addresses and port numbers. Assumptions You use a Fritz!Box for internet access. Your ISP supplies you with a dynamic IPv4 address. You are not in a …
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FreeNAS 11.3 + Transmission Jail + OpenVPN + AirVPN + IPFW Killswitch
Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you are setting up Transmission, not using the supplied plugin, but in a jail under FreeNAS 11.3. Assumptions The reader has a working knowledge of FreeNAS. AirVPN is the reader’s VPN service provider. Background There are several limitations of setting up Transmission using the plugin: Plugin …
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FreeNAS 11.3 + Transmission plugin + OpenVPN + AirVPN + IPFW Killswitch
Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you are setting up the Transmission plugin under FreeNAS 11.3. If you’re still on FreeNAS 11.2 refer to the post here instead. Edit (22/03/2020): There are a number of advantages to installing Transmission in and iocage jail rather than use a plugin. To find out more, …
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FreeNAS 11.2 + Transmission plugin + OpenVPN + AirVPN + IPFW Killswitch
Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you are setting up the Transmission plugin for the first time under FreeNAS 11.2, or, you are switching from using Transmission under legacy versions of FreeNAS (version 11.1 or earlier). If you are on FreeNAS 11.3, refer to the post here instead. Assumptions The reader has …
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Resilio Sync Setup for IOS 8+ Clients (revised)
Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you want to use Resilio Sync to back up the camera folder on IOS 8+ clients to a modern FreeNAS server (version 11.2 and above). An earlier version of this post using a legacy FreeNAS server (version 11.1 or below) can be found here. Assumptions The …
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FreeNAS Mail Notification Settings
Mail notifications need to be set up in several areas within FreeNAS. It’s easy to miss one. Root user. System email Alert Service (new UI only) S.M.A.R.T. The images below came from FreeNAS 11.1-U7 for the legacy UI screenshots and FreeNAS 11.2-U2.1 for the new UI screenshots. Legacy UI New UI Considering using Gmail …
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Troubleshooting FreeNAS Group SID Resolution
Case Study When viewing the permissions on a FreeNAS SMB share from a Windows PC, SIDs in the ACL are translated to a friendly display name. For example, this is a view of the permissions on the media share on my backup FreeNAS 11.1-U7 server. I’ve recently noticed that group SIDs are not being resolved …
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FreeNAS Standby Server Considerations
Case Study Consider a small business that employs predominantly Windows PCs. The business doesn’t have a lot of cash to throw at hardware or software, but still wants to maximise business continuity by minimising system downtime. A couple of FreeNAS servers are considered as file servers; one active, the other on cold standby (ie. no …
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FreeNAS and Samba Standalone DFS
Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you’re interested in accessing SMB shares hosted on different servers on your network through a single namespace. Assumptions The guide is suitable for a small business or home network that doesn’t use a domain controller for authenticated access. Windows PCs are predominantly in use on the …
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Resilio Sync Setup for OS X 10.8+ Clients (revised)
You will need to setup the sync server first. The instruction here is for setting up sync client software on Android devices to backup important data from them on to the server. The app screens that follow are from the following version of the sync client: Step 1: Install and start the sync client. When starting […]