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Some points from things I noticed reading through this thread: * SMB is the protocol used to move Windows files through network transfers. For example, if I want to go to my NAS on my local network on Windows, I go to \\nas.homelab.local\share. On Linux, I got to smb://nas.homelab.local/share. It's just the protocol used to navigate to the destination, like https:// before a website URL. When you set up your data pool of all your drives, you create "shares" which are essentially folders for you to divide your content. On Linux, these are called "NFS" shares, but for compatibility, everyone just uses SMB shares. * Plex cannot currently be installed through the HexOS panel, it can only be installed through the TrueNAS panel. The end result would be the same, though: a container would be created on top of HexOS/TrueNAS, and that container would run Plex. The only apps that can be installed through HexOS itself is Immich and Plex. * Plex and Immich are currently the only things that could be installed on the HexOS > Having my download/organize media content on another pc connected to the network, then moving the content over to my hexos machine? I run all my services on Linux. What I do is I mount the drive the SMB share as a folder on my other containers and they access the files directly. I run everything on the same machine (more on this in a bit), so I get 37 Gbps between my services. No need to worry about moving files back and forth. I just work on them via the network. Have you considered running HexOS as a VM on Proxmox, rather than installing it on baremetal? While it's not officially supported, the only issue I have seen in such a setup is that I cannot install apps through the HexOS panel, but I can do so perfectly fine in the TrueNAS panel. There's a little more initial setup, but it's mostly just passing through the drives that would actually have the data pool, in your case the five 12TB drives. The initial setup would be a bit more complex, but you would have a lot more freedom in how you want to run things, such as limiting how much CPU or RAM to give HexOS versus other services. You would also have everything run at the same priority. Proxmox would also allow you to run LXC containers, whereas TrueNAS can only run Docker containers. It also allows for full Windows 11 servers. Like I said though, it's initially more complex. The hardest bit, for example, would likely be setting up the HDD and GPU passthrough. There's a lot of community scripts to help automatically install a bunch of services, but GPU and HDD passthrough is a manual task (at least for me it was) There's multiple threads talking about people's experiences with Proxmox if you do a search through the forum. As for game servers, I would use some kind of tool to make it easier. Pterodactyl Panel is a TrueNAS application and supports a lot of games. I prefer running an Ubuntu Server container and using LinuxGSM for my game servers, since I prefer using the terminal. For your Windows 11 services, Proxmox should also fully support running a Windows VM perfectly fine for whatever you need to do there.

yes bite the bullet and use the 1tb drive for something else. i wouldn't use it for cache but you can make a single drive pool to install your apps to.

Hello, Looks like I sort of messed up a bit when building my system. This is my first ever NAS, and I clearly didn't do my do diligence and got a 1TB SSD for my boot drive thinking I could easily use the rest as cache or something. Should I just bite the bullet and get a smaller SSD for OS and use the 1TB as cache or is there a smarter way to do things? Thank you!

I'm glad i didn't end up painting the case. That would have taken a while and no time. The case came in Thursday night and i worked on it for hours since i got it. I still don't even have the motherboard installed 😅 I've also spent a lot of time doing cable management and it still looks like a rat's nest 😅😅 My original plan to drill in mounting holes for the phanteks drive caddies is a bust too but my new plan is less elegant and more expensive 😅😅😅 I realized i had more free sata power and data slots so i bought more drives 😅😅😅😅 Hopefully by Monday or Tuesday i make a new update saying I'm 95% done. This iteration of my server is not going to complete until i can get a part 3d printed and 3d printing services are expensive. I'm reaching out to some friends to see if they have a 3d printer but I'm not hopeful. 😅😅😅😅😅

This is at the top of my list of things I want on hexos

Just found this thread and love it! You guys have some really awesome vehicles. I'll have to post ours soon!

Hi, I have a similar issue. I installed HexOS completely new. A single Folder(also share) and set all the location to a path in the folder. I tried to install Immich but it just says that there is server error. In truenas, the app pool is set. I dont see any running jubs during installation. Can some one provide guidance on where i should look? Another note is that my folder is Private with access to one user. Also let me know if you need any other info.

as far as i know hexos cannot do that. i can see how that would be handy tho. yeah when you are new homelabs and servers its hard to find things just by virtue of the correct terminology being completely foreign for example im sure you if searched if hexos supports multiple storage pools (pool = group of drives), you would find your answer for the first question, but can't expect someone knew to know things like pool. but again im more than happy to help im sure there are users on this form that can attest to me answering the same questions dozens of times.

Amazing thank you! One more question. Does HexOS support directly linking a NAS PC via USB 3.2gen2 to another PC? I was thinking up upgrading my LAN switch and PCIE lan adapters to 10gigabit ports. But i only need 10 gigabit to my main editing PC, so i figure a direct USB 3.2gen2 to USB 3.2gen2 is probably the most cost efficient way of doing this. These must be basic questions, but I can't seem to find the answers anywhere.

You can do both on one server, only needing one license However if you want to have both on separate servers you would need one license per server On a side note hexos doesn't support raid 5 but we do support raid z1 which similarly has 1 drive of parity Happy to answer any question you have

I'm new to creating servers/NAS etc.. I am building a PC with 6 storage drivers in two configurations: a Raid 5 3x22TB storage nas (for storing my business video footage on) and a Raid 5 3x8TB server/storage NAS to run jellyfish or hold personal files/videos. Can I do that using HEXOS with only 1 license from the same machine? Probably a noob question. Thanks for your time!

I would like to see gluetun added that would be cool.

Currently own an '06 Chrysler 300c. Bone stock at the moment, but it's my next in queue project after getting my server rack up and running. Going to throw a blower on it and a matching brake job to slow the boat back down. I love the way it rides so I don't plan on doing any suspension work; it'll never be a track car, just want a daily that's a bit more fun.

It would be useful in the dashboard if I could see a snapshot of users connected to services like SMB, NFS.

if its media files you are torrenting, maybe something like gluetun + radarr/sonarr can do what you are asking for. or if you just want a torrenting app with a vpn attached you can do gluetun+torrenting app of choice or a fork of a client with vpn built in like this https://github.com/binhex/arch-qbittorrentvpn I havent used either or know how to set them up myself.

I had trouble at first when I set the external IP to the IP of Tailscale. What I forgot was my phones wifi connection wouldn't use my external IP so the app kept reporting a false fail as I was setting it up. I ended up having to turn off wifi and use my phone connection/data. Then because my phone connection uses my external IP without issue, it worked. The IP switcher on Imich is pretty touchy.

If you installed an early Beta version of this OS and upgraded to "25.04.1" or higher and unable to access HexOS dashboard etc? you may have some services that are broken login locally into truenas, go to the shell Fix: sudo python /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/middlewared/scripts/vendor_service.py (reboot) Reboot and still broken? sudo systemctl restart websocat

Is there some way to use a VPN and torrent, automatically put it into a folder?

Is there a listing of default folder names that the items in locations will match with? I'd like to create folders in my TrueNAS to match.

Thank you! Working out great, immich app on my phone doesn't seem to work, but at least I can access the folders now!

oh man im so tempted to buy some automotive spray paint and change the color of the jonsbo n5 i dont have one of these but i have always ben enamored by the fractal tera in green. jonsbo n5 would defintely look more pleasing in this color

i am waiting for that

@Suljaman, are you able to update to 24.10.2.2?

I believe speedking456 gets credit for this one.

Do you have a link to the guide? Tailscale seems good. I'm a bit in a similar sitaution to you :))