FreeNAS supports the appropriate hardware of the FreeBSD-Version where FreeNAS is based on. A overview can be found on Compatible Hardware Lists. But sometimes it is necessary to install a third-party or a self-compiled driver.

This how-to describes how to install a downloaded binary Ethernet interface (NIC) driver on FreeNAS. It was written for non-experienced Unix users.

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The integrated filemanager of FreeNAS is not sufficient for some tasks. For Windows users WinSCP provides all missing functions to manage your files on a FreeNAS server, e.g. change ownership of files or to feed your server with data. Only the ssh service has to run.

Activate UTF-8 on WinSCP - German version

It is easy to setup session data but by default German umlauts or other non-ASCII characters in file and folder names were not displayed correctly. To avoid this the UTF-8 support of WinSCP has to be activated explicitly. The default setting “auto” is not sufficient. You may find the setting in “Enviroment” in the entry “UTF-coding for filenames” or similar. Turn on this setting solves the problem.

On Filezilla umlauts are displayed correctly by default.

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