DenisInternet
Dabbler
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2022
- Messages
- 28
Hello!
Let me preface this by saying, I am very much a newbie/rookie when it comes to TrueNAS, or NAS's in general. So if my "eating-crayons" experiment doesn't make any sense, or re-inventing the wheel, my bad. I just stumbled on something I thought was interesting, and was curious to see if it actually is something worth tinkering with further, or if I should just move on.
I've been messing around with TrueNAS CORE and SCALE, on a dummy/spare system to familiarize myself with the software before building a proper NAS.
I watched some YouTube tutorials on TrueNAS, and was able to successfully create a basic Pool, windows VM, and an SMB share. Overall I am loving the UI!
But then I got distracted/curious about something that I didn't expect to see/work, my motherboards Thunderbolt ports. When I was messing around with the "Configure Network Interfaces" on TrueNAS CORE, I noticed it detected my motherboards Thunderbolt ports but that was pretty much it, I couldn't see it anywhere in the GUI. But after switching over to TrueNAS SCALE for some VM stuff I was testing, the Thunderbolt ports were not only detected, but displayed in the GUI and detected by my "Thunderbolt Bridge" on my Mac system.
So, I thought, maybe I could somehow manually assign an IP for the Thunderbolt Bridge and point the SMB share towards it, and connect via Thunderbolt? So far no luck.
Thanks!
Let me preface this by saying, I am very much a newbie/rookie when it comes to TrueNAS, or NAS's in general. So if my "eating-crayons" experiment doesn't make any sense, or re-inventing the wheel, my bad. I just stumbled on something I thought was interesting, and was curious to see if it actually is something worth tinkering with further, or if I should just move on.
I've been messing around with TrueNAS CORE and SCALE, on a dummy/spare system to familiarize myself with the software before building a proper NAS.
I watched some YouTube tutorials on TrueNAS, and was able to successfully create a basic Pool, windows VM, and an SMB share. Overall I am loving the UI!
But then I got distracted/curious about something that I didn't expect to see/work, my motherboards Thunderbolt ports. When I was messing around with the "Configure Network Interfaces" on TrueNAS CORE, I noticed it detected my motherboards Thunderbolt ports but that was pretty much it, I couldn't see it anywhere in the GUI. But after switching over to TrueNAS SCALE for some VM stuff I was testing, the Thunderbolt ports were not only detected, but displayed in the GUI and detected by my "Thunderbolt Bridge" on my Mac system.
So, I thought, maybe I could somehow manually assign an IP for the Thunderbolt Bridge and point the SMB share towards it, and connect via Thunderbolt? So far no luck.
Thanks!