The command in the TrueCommand Guide: docker run –detach -v “/hostdirectory:/data” -p portnumber:80 -p sslport:443 ixsystems/truecommand:latest A practical example: sudo docker run –detach -v “/tc-data:/data” -p 8080:80 -p 8081:443 ixsystems/truecommand:latest There are a number of issues with this: The data is lost if the Ubuntu VM is destroyed; The time in the container does not correspond to …
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Nextcloud, Office Suites and FreeNAS
Nextcloud and Office Suite Integration Here are some equivalence terms: Interested in hosting your own office suite like Office 365 or Google Docs? Refer to the resources Nextcloud and OnlyOffice Integration and Nextcloud and Collabora Integration Below is a table summarising the current editing capabilities of various mobile office offerings for Nextcloud. N = View only …
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Resilio Sync in a FreeNAS Jail
Update (10/08/2020): For a scripted version of this resource, refer to Scripted Resilio Sync Installation in the Resources section of the FreeNAS Community Forum. Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you are setting up Resilio Sync, not using the supplied plugin, but in a jail under FreeNAS 11.3. Assumptions The guide is suitable …
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DNSMasq in a FreeNAS Jail – A better approach
Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you use DNSMasq in FreeNAS and would like to keep the configuration file outside the jail. Background The main issue of building a standard DNSMasq installation in a FreeNAS jail or using the DNSMasq community plugin, is that the configuration file /usr/local/etc/dnsmas.conf is stored within the …
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Caddy TLS Reverse Proxy in a FreeNAS Jail
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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