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Wow, I didn't realise that FreeNAS had come so far. Featureset looks amazing and better than most of enterprise solutions.

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Bear in mind, ixSystems HAS an enterprise solution based on FreeNAS called TrueNAS - we bought two appliances with 72TB if usable storage to handle image storage for our ECM suite which has BILLIONS of small images. The things run like a champ, and outside some minor issues with the AD integration we've taken care of they've been a great storage solution.

Same experience with FreeNAS 9.x and AD.

But... I just upgraded to FreeNAS 10/Corral and the AD integration just worked!

Previously there was a `generate_smb4_conf.py` script that translated the UI selections into a `smb4.conf` file, but our AD had some weird schema issues that required a custom config. I ended up hacking parts of the generator script to get it to produce the right thing. In FreeNAS 10 it seems they switched to samba's Registry Configuration [1].

[1] https://www.samba.org/~obnox/presentations/linux-kongress-20...

My issue was actually the way their HA setup attempted to configure itself with duplicate SPN's - I ended up needing to manually export a key tab with ktpass to use it instead of getting it via winbind.

I didn't either, and I'm running FreeNAS 9 on my server at home. I didn't realize FreeNAS 10 was such a huge improvement.

Before rushing to upgrade, take note that they are abandoning the plugin system for, what I believe is, a docker-based approach for services. Don't quote me on that second part, but I'm fairly certain you will need to reconfigure any services which are presently running as a plugin.

If you have custom jails, then you really don't need my advice :)

Yes, be careful, your jails won't run on Corral.

I've just migrated yesterday and managed to replace all my jails with Docker containers, although the road was a bit bumpy, at least when it comes to the containers UI which is buggy as hell currently.

All in all I'm delighted. The CLI is great, the UI buggy but definitely better, and no more jails but proper containers instead.

Congratulations to the team and thank you for delivering.

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