Creating a mirrored boot device in FreeNAS is well documented. I’d personally encourage and recommend having redundant boot devices on home or small business FreeNAS system for a couple of reasons: As the FreeNAS operating system typically resides on low-cost USB sticks, mirroring FreeNAS boot drives is inexpensive; and It eliminates the boot device being …
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Resilio Sync Setup for Windows 7+ Clients (legacy)
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 […]
Windows 10 and FreeNAS
In home or small business networks without a domain controller, to seamlessly stitch client systems to a FreeNAS server, the username and password that is created on FreeNAS has to match that of the client system. This was easy enough to accomplish for Windows 7 and earlier systems. However, Windows 8 and higher initially broke …
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Create a Common Read-Only Share in FreeNAS
This post supersedes the post FreeNAS Windows Share Permissions – FreeNAS Users Have Read Only Access. It better aligns with principles established in the post Administrator Access to Windows Shares in FreeNAS. Consider establishing a reference library that is read-only to the FreeNAS user community on your network. It is managed by librarians who have full access …
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Administrator Access to Windows Shares in FreeNAS
In order to support Windows shares created in FreeNAS, whether these are personal shares, group shares or shares owned by plugins, system administrators require full access to all shares. However, it isn’t immediately obvious how to grant administrators full access. In this post, I present the method I use to grant administrators access to shares in a …
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Advanced Resilio Sync Setup for FreeNAS (legacy)
The objective here is to set up an automated backup of key user data from various devices such as phones, tablets and desktops into a central repository on a FreeNAS server. The repository should be readable to personnel responsible for recovering data for users. but should not accessible to anyone else. This will maximise the […]
Plex Setup for FreeNAS
The objective here is to set up a Plex server on FreeNAS. The repository should be readable only to FreeNAS users. but should not accessible to anyone else. This will allow FreeNAS users to access media using other Windows applications such as WMP and VLC. The instructions that follow are suitable for a home network that […]
Creating a Common Read-Write Share in FreeNAS
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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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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