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yes you would need to either go back to the 192.168 subnet or Vlan for the hex os port to run as 192.168 and make the ACL's to connect back to the 10.10

I would take the new router and mirror the current /24 ip structure.

If you are in Windows use a network scanner like Angry IP scanner or NMAP/Zenmap to do a network scan . You should see the hostname that you setup the NAS to have ,use that IP and HTTPS://i.p. here and you should see the truenas screen. Also you can use this option from the HEXOS DECK view ::::: SEttings - truenas- popout window truenas button

So I cant speak on the uGreen HW but I can tell you that if you decide to find normal computer hardware plopping in the boot SSD and hard drives it will take off and run " NOTE depending on the network chipset you have" without any hitch. I am running the same SSD that I started HEXOS "since launch" and have tested about 12 different motherboard cpu combos and the only issue has been a network chipset that the underlying Linux os didnt like.,

So I have played with a lot of different hardware on my HexOs journey. For the time I have landed with using a i3 8350k 32gb of ram and running 16 drives. For your use case the storage is going to be your money pit. Without knowing where exactly where your needs are I could say make sure you bulk up there where as in RAM starting with 16gb will get you going but having more will help ZFS Cache.

You could do some Slow but useful AI stuff

Talk to @mill3000

Hello! I have a relative in Russia that worries about censorship and all the other obvious freedom of speech violations in that country. So I wanted to try and set up an amnezia wire guard setup. To be honest, I am a complete server noob. I am a software dev by trade, but when it comes to setting up Docker images or other linux server magic, I am honestly completely lost. I am pretty sure it can somehow work. It's just I am lacking the know-how of how to do it and I was just wondering if anyone could help me or run me through it, or at least point me in the right direction on how to do it. I am not allergic to reading, so I'd also appreciate it if anyone has a good guide that I can look at. Thank you for reading! And for any help in advance!!

Not possible. License transfers are not permitted. All licenses are tied to the purchasing account.

I currently have one license and have really enjoyed using Hexos for my personal NAS. I’d like to add an offsite backup, and a friend of mine is considering building a NAS, which would work well for a buddy backup setup (in 2026 when it's released). I noticed he can get a license on sale for $199, while I can purchase a second license for $99. Ideally, he’d have his own account, so I’m wondering if Hexos would allow me to transfer a second license to him. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Have an interesting use case here, that I have yet to find information on. I am adjusting an Application to use an SMB share as one of the mount points. So far, I have been unable to get this to save/mount. Has anyone tested this? If so, how did you get it configured?

Not really the 9700 is already quite good at transcoding video. quite likely since just adding a gpu will be increasing idle power draw by 10-20w You can always test a worst case scenario and if you think your intel cpu can't handle it then try the nvidia gpu.

That is what I am using and for the same reason, it was just laying around. I only really notice it working when I dump a bunch of movies or family videos into Plex. I think Jellyfin would have value also but I use it very sparingly so I don't see the same bump. I didn't get a power reading before I stuck it in so can't help there on electrical impact or cost. As an aside, I am slowly buying four 8tb drives to replace the four 4tb drives I have connected now. When I complete the set I am going to rebuild from scratch so I hope to have some solid number from that experience. Might not be as helpful at that time but I have to do it anyway so why not track it all.

Hmm. I'm not sure where I fall on this anymore. I have two license so going forward I will probably just shut up because I think there are much larger fish to fry here. Personally I was so wrapped up in a "remote" buddy backup that I didn't really put together that I would be buying a license at the old cost for someone else. That wouldn't have been my intention (or so I say) and like most folks I do respect a companies intellectual property. I'm not telling anyone with a strong opinion not to air it but I think we have really beat this into the ground. Like I said, I got an second license when the sail started and I would be very surprised if the $99 dollar option ever happened again after how this went through. But speaking only for myself I don't care if on the day we go live or the day the monthly option is announce, that they had a one day $99 sale again. And if you missed that one you can't blame Eshtek even though you can't really now.

Should be fine to leave alone. I think our install script sets that folder to posix

Hi, I’m running a completely default HexOS setup (fresh install last month), I only logged into truenas once after the initial install to check things up but did not modify anything. The only apps I have installed are Immich and Jellyfin. I checked Truenas today and see the following alert: Critical SMB shares have path-related configuration issues that may impact service stability: Applications: ACL type mismatch with child mountpoint at /mnt/SSDs/Applications/immich/postgres_data: SSDs/Applications - NFSV4, SSDs/Applications/immich/postgres_data - POSIX 2025-11-16 21:04:11 (Europe/Warsaw) Should I do anything? I verified those claims, and ACL types are indeed different.

Thank you. That’s very appreciated. I’m in the process of planing out a small server for the home. I was thinking immich (we live in a 3rd world country and take lots of pictures) and an emby server. This clears up a lot.

I don't know how possible it is (zero experience with NAS stuff before HexOS) but it would be cool to have VirtualHere server as an app. Right now I've just got a raspberry pi sitting next to my NAS that's running it, so it'd be nice to have that on the NAS itself and get rid of a few wires.

There is no announced timeframe at this time. The benefit is being able to make bigger pools.

did you check this thread? It is regarding that issue.

my issue is that hex lost its connection with a local IP address change, i was able to get the server working as a truenass, but hex will not reconnect, or even find it

Damn, well thanks for the info! I did now also Google that HexOS "may" support the mixed capacity drives sometime in early 2026? Being that my drives also arent all of the same size is there a benefit to holding off the switch over until that support? I can look to purchase another 2 drives that match my 2 new ones to parity with 2 backups (goal is 2/8 being used as parity) and 2 storage drives, until this feature is added for me to slowly add in the other drives to expand the pool 1 drive at a time?

The difference is pretty big, while they do the same thing, they do it very differently. Immich just stores all the images in plain on the file system, all the processing is done on server side, you can connect an external library and if your Immich DB or installation becomes corrupted or breaks and there is no more support for Immich you just take the photos folder and move on. But the admin and everyone who's access to the folder can see all the photos of everyone, so privacy is not that great, but administration is easier and recovery in case of an issue is easy. Ente (FunFact: Ente is German for Duck) is all about privacy. The photos are all encrypted on the server and only the client side can decrypt/see the photos. This also means that the client side needs to do all the processing, but therefore the server can be very low spec (although this doesn't matter in our case, because Hexos needs to run in the first place, so HW specs is not really a concern in any way) and it needs S3 storage and requires more setup an administration. However if your Ente DB becomes corrupted or the Ente app breaks or the Ente dev stops and your app becomes unusable, you lose all your photos, because you cannot access it any other way. But until that happens only your client side device can access the photos and no-one else can.

Pretty disappointed with this limitation. I understand the reason to avoid unscrupulous reselling, but I do think there are better ways of avoiding that without these issues. There are probably a lot of people in a similar situation as me; wanting to get a license for a relative as the family tech guy, but not wanting to have to be the sys admin for everyone. I bought a license at release because I support the mission, with no intention of using it until the features got more flushed out (still on plain TrueNAS). I am in the process of building a NAS for my father, which I intended to set up with a HexOS license so he could use buddy backup and some apps as a relatively nontechnical user. The HexOS interface is simple enough I think he can grasp it. But if I have to be an admin for his NAS anyway I might as well just set up Tailscale and rsync on TrueNAS. I understand it's a sale price and I'll probably end up getting him his own but it just feels like a slap for people that bought in to support and I hate feeling like I'm throwing money away. I'm no business major but it seems like expanding the user base would be prioritized given the possibility of genuinely useful subscription features coming down the pipe. Anyways. Just my $0.02. Still love what you guys are building.

Whats the difference?