As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to set up some NFS shares on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Pretty painless, but I need the option to connect from my iMac, there were some additional hoops to jump through, to get everything to work correctly.

Steps

1. Install the necessary packages:

   sudo apt install …

After I moved from TrueNAS to Ubuntu on my NAS box, I had some issuing deleting some no-longer-needed directories.

One of the TrueNAS features I used was a jail, but those don't exist in Ubuntu (I moved anything that was in a jail to a Docker container).

Trying to delete the jails directory gave me some heartburn, …

My Plex server (recently switched to a Docker container) refused to play trailers for any of the movies stored on it.

While trying to play a trailer on Plex, this appeared: …

As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to share the videos folder on my NAS, that is used by Plex.

I've done very basic, simple Samba shares before, simply to quickly transfer files, with little regard to security and/or safeguarding.

I'll give TrueNAS credit, it's GUI makes setting up a Samba …

I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for over 8 years, and while it works great as a NAS, some of the idiosyncrasies made me decide to migrate to Ubuntu:

1. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD, and while it's similar to Linux, it's not 100% the same.

2. The feature set of TrueNAS is overkill for my needs.

   • I'm simple home user.
   • I'm …

While doing some troubleshooting on my home lab, I was trying to ping from one device to another device, both configured with IPv6, and only IPv6, addresses.

I was using tcpdump to attempt to capture the ICMP echo-requests (only), which in the IPv4 world, I would use this tcpdump syntax:

sudo tcpdump -nni ens192 …