 Frenias 11.2 beta 3 is available as of September 10th 2018 We updated our test box to the beta 3 and let's talk about that once again They've been doing a lot of improvements and things like that We're gonna jump into it But there's a couple little things that maybe you noticed if you've loaded this or if you're Looking at the known issues and they plan to fix this before RC ones when it gets into release candidate They this should be resolved, but this is not possible to mirror the boot devices Not really affecting us because is this a beta machine for us and just testing And doing our usual fault tolerance testing where we randomly unplug it plug it back in and we haven't any problems with it But we don't have dual boot devices set up because well, it's a beta machine. It's not for production And you shouldn't run beta for production in general and can then complain about it We'll throw that out there There's a couple plugins that were removed available available listings as they are still working a project So apparently I've never used these ones tiny tiny RSS Sabin and VZD zone minder if you're not familiar with the zone minder project because a few people have asked me about it Zone minder is an interesting open source and the only one I'm aware of a full featured open source Stay there surveillance software. I am Kind of mixed on it. I played with it a couple times and I was like, okay, it needs a lot of work It's it has a ways to go last time I tested it that's I'm not gonna digress too much in there But apparently they are removed from now from the plugins They have tested the other plugins and they're tested working and if you remember with the beta 2 There was a big problem with the IO cage Which they've moved away from or warden to IO cage for the jails And if you loaded something in IO cage and you rebooted it may not come back up when rebooting I have sync thing loaded and I have plex loaded and both of them are working fine I've forcibly just unplugged and rebooted this thing several times and they've come up every time and had no issues at all So that made me really happy Those are generally the two plugins. I run when I'm using FreeNAS, but they allegedly all the other ones work very well So let's jump in and look at the new UI and I see new UI because they did update it again So this is even better than when it was in beta 2 They've just kind of polished and cleaned it up I think after some thought and feedback they just kind of gave this a cleaner look Dysyn use you can click on each one. It tells you the drive temperature and information on there what the drive is The serial number of the drive, so this is just kind of nice Then we have a little reports button under each one a check for updates button here bandwidth so it's kind of you know nice dashboard looks good and It is still responsive. So if you wanted to view this on your phone You can it does work. So that's I never thought to view this on the phone But I apparently there's a lot of users that do and this is kind of cool I guess if you're on your network, you're like I want to change a setting I don't feel like getting out my Laptop or desktop and logging in I want to do it on my phone. You can so they've definitely kept up with the Compatibility for the responsive design I do like the way the menus collapse and things like that helps with that clean interface of keeping everything on the side here now The CPU temperature seems to be working. Everything's just kind of a simple bar graph The bandwidth right here. Let's you jump right to the edit interface check for that and then we have the reports Not a matter what where you click on reports. It doesn't land you on the corresponding one here just brings you to the reports dashboard, maybe they'll fix that and You have to get the mouse over here to scroll because if you have it here it does this which is not a bad thing Let's you zoom into a section or zoom out So if you want to zoom in and out for any of the reports, that's kind of novel disc information Network information for each network interface A little pull down for items for page if you have a lot of network card or a lot of hard drives The common easy to navigate system is it's not bad the way the reports layouts are it's pretty easy to do I'm still a big fan and it's of course is still integrated is the Net data. This is way better in terms of detail. I like that they have reports built in but the net data reports are substantially better and It's a great tool. I guess I'm very happy. This is integrated in here Now let's jump back over to the interface something interesting that I noticed Is the way they did the services page? I'm not the biggest fan of this large block And it's easy enough to put it to slim or in a table But it's kind of neat when it is a large block now because they started adding graphics I don't know if each one's gonna get its own graphics, but here's our sync NFS The S3 smart status, they should put a picture of her drive there the UPS I'm I don't know that's kind of kind of remind me of like a 90s The solo cup style design or something SSH so kind of cool that they did this it does look pretty neat But I prefer the table design here start on boots. It's a checkbox And then if it has further options you can go there to configure each one and in a case of net data where there's no options And it doesn't remember to view each time Click here launch and it takes you right to the net data now same thing when we're looking at the jails There mount point shell update all this is works really well, so we can go into a jail. We can look at stuff you can Easily get to the menus. I think that's a nice clean. It works really fast. I haven't really had any issues This is one side note I will and I'm sure they know about it, but we see e-fault plexiopoe running when adding a mount point more info It kind of gives a weird fault All this is telling you if you want to add the mount points for storage that You should stop the jail and it kind of sits here and spins you can just refresh a page and it works It doesn't break anything. It doesn't stop the jail from running Close and go back to jails and it works fine. So it kind of gets stuck right there But like I said beta, I'm sure that's something we fixed by the time it gets in production Now when you look at it from the installed plugins, that's where you're gonna go here And in the case of plexi doesn't seem to have the version number available and same thing it does Like I said, this was noted at the beginning and you can just go here to management and it launches the management page for these services So it can launch right here for the plex, which is nice So that didn't seem to have any issues at all. I've rebooted like I said several times that these services came right back up running perfectly fine The sharing and all that's working. I've tested it. I have not tested ice guzzie on this particular one It is set up still Someone had noted and I don't know if this is fixed yet is apparently some of the passwords on the ice because he weren't working I seen someone note that I have not confirmed that But the ice because he seems to be working on this one I haven't done any extensive testing other than it connects and seems to work So there's not that so is working windows SMB. I've not tested Apple and I have not done any NFS NFS shares on this I Generally don't do anything over NFS anymore Most everything we do is either ice guzzie or windows SMB sharing But I will note this and this goes for both updating to u6 and with the latest beta People said they couldn't get some things to connect and I've got a few people that messaged me about it I've seen people talk about this. I didn't experience this problem We're on u6 with our system and we're on beta 3 here both connect But I went ahead and spun up a Windows XP VM and it does not see it at all It will not connect to it my guess and I don't remember what version of SMB that is built into Windows XP But I know it's an old version Probably is why it doesn't work. So apparently some older devices using old NTLM do have problems That's an insecure protocol. They have disabled like NTLM v1 is off by default So because they've updated to a newer version of SMB D the Samba server They just got rid of some of the compatibility for that really old stuff. That's where some there's a few bugs in there That if you absolutely need it, I guess you could turn this back on I haven't done any testing, but I don't really have any use case for old NTLM NTLM version 1 Authorizations, so I've left it at the default and up to the security on this So if you're having trouble This is where you want to start the troubleshooting if you go man My old XP machines won't connect to my new free NAS box This is probably related to why both on the beta and on the u6 now one last thing in here I have not done a ton of virtual machine testing I'm gonna wait till this goes all the way to release Canada before I dig deeper into the virtual machines I didn't find them wonderful on 11-1. I find them a little bit buggy I've had some other people kind of say the same things that they're just not quite ready for prime time The virtual machines are more crash resistant apparently in beta 3. I will admit and I ran the Ubuntu installer here And this is the system here When I moved to u3 this one that wasn't booting properly seemed to start booting properly and going into the installer without the error messages I had before so They're working on it I'm gonna do some testing with it maybe in the beta 3, but I'm probably gonna wait till release Canada before I spend any time on it I just feel though. It's an add-on feature. I know they're working hard at it I'm not trying to disparage developers at all I just didn't feel like it's ready for prime time and I don't have any real use case other than Loading a quick demo VM, but by the time this comes out I'm hoping they have it stable enough because one of the things we'd love to build is a nice Unify system inside of here for the nvr that way we can build an nvr with free nas, but have it in a Linux VM To make it much easier to manage because there I know there's ways to manage it in the jails I want to try that in a jail and I want to try it in here and see how well it runs But obviously having free nas for the back-end storage would be the ideal way to Build some of these and I'm pretty excited to get that build going once this goes at least into Release candidate. Maybe we'll build one for our own office here and do some testing with it and see how fault tolerant it is You know, that's always that's always the goal of this to make sure that none of this crashes a Lot and comes back from the crashes, but they're not it's they keep improving. I'm still happy with it I'm not ready to move our production machine over to running the free nas beta 3 But I debating I may move my machine at home, which currently just runs a bunch of VMs Over to a free nas box because mostly at home I just run it for plex for you know watching some shows and things like that So it might be worth worth a try so I can actually put some more real-world use to it More than our testing that we're doing in the lab here, but definitely so far no major issues the update went smooth as silk Warning if you have those dual Boot devices set up you have a mere boot device. 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