FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 has been released with Samba 3.6.4 to addresses this critical security flaw.

Bugfixes

1. Samba has been upgraded to 3.6.4 to address CVE-2012-1182 which is a critical vulnerability. All FreeNAS users who are using CIFS are urged to upgrade.
2. Create the ldap and nss secret files when LDAP integration is enabled.
3. Ensure the configuration database is not world readable.
4. Remove failsafe from the PAM group file, this prevents a situation where the wheel group being empty allowed any user to su to root.

8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 also contains a GUI enhancement where  selecting reboot now causes the screen to turn red during the confirmation dialog, adding emphasis to the fact that this operation will affect availability.

FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p1 is now available for immediate download from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.4/

This update is critical for anyone using FreeNAS with CIFS.

In this tutorial we will go beyond disks & sharing and configure the FTP, TFTP and SSH services. I will assume you have a FreeNAS system installed with at least one volume configured. For more information on installing FreeNAS and setting up volumes see my NAS Setup Guide.

Read full tutorial: http://www.trainsignal.com/blog/freenas-services-ftp-tftp-ssh

FreeNAS 8 can act as an iSCSI Target and can allow a remote Initiator to control a whole hard disk or present a file (created on the existing storage) as if it was a hard disk. For this tutorial I will assume you have a FreeNAS system installed with at least one volume configured. For more information on installing FreeNAS and setting up volumes see my previous tutorial here: Build a Simple NAS Setup with FreeNAS 8.

Read full tutorial: http://www.trainsignal.com/blog/freenas-8-iscsi-target-windows-7

The changes include:

• Update samba to 3.6.3 to resolve several bugs (both security and non-security related) (SF r10127).
• Update transmission to 2.42 (SF r10093).
• Update firefly to 1696_6 for iTunes 10.5.2+ compatibility.
• Add MegaCLI tool (SF r10072, r10073).
• Add rsync+SSH functionality (FN # 990).
• Catch ZFS snapshot errors when snapshots are done via the GUI instead of failing silently (SF r10152).
• Work around interoperability issues with user / group population in the GUI by failing silently in certain cases if AD/LDAP users cannot be retrieved (SF r10140).
• Fix case where local and remote paths passed to rsync in Rsync tasks weren’t quoted, so paths with spaces in them would not work (FN 1285).
• Disable periodic tasks in the base system that would negatively impact system performance on NAS boxes with large directory structures (SF r10113).
• Fix handling for ‘every day’ SMART tasks created in the GUI (SF r10088).
• Add in several robustness fixes to reduce potential for filesystem corruption on root / boot device. In some scenarios this would also improve performance when fetching data from the root device as well (SF r10095, r10109, r10129).
• Fix vfs objects modules ordering so shadow copy (aka previous versions) support functions again (FN 935, FN 1186, FN 1275).
• Network field from iSCSI initiator could contain multiple IP addresses, CIDR addresses, or ANY keyword (SF r10082).
• Generate istgt.conf properly if and when multiple initiators were specified (SF r10081).
• Automatically create AD/LDAP user home directories (FN # 1203).
• Restrict portal input in the GUI to prevent scenarios where incorrect input would prevent iSCSI from starting (FN # 1231).
• Fix disks / partition parsing when importing volumes (FN # 1202).
• Restrict users from creating cronjobs / rsync tasks with long usernames (FN # 1061).
• Escape samba AD/LDAP passwords (FN # 1225).
• Ensure guest accounts are disabled if checked (SF r8276).

Note: Builds prior to 8.0.3-RELEASE with ‘CIFS’ didn’t actually have AIO (asynchronous I/O) enabled. So, if you experience performance degradation after upgrading from prior versions of FreeNAS to 8.0.3-RELEASE or newer, turn off AIO or tune the AIO size from ’1′ to something more reasonable (the new default in 8.0.3-RELEASE-p1 is 4096 or 4kB).

FreeNAS 8.0.4 is available to download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.4/

FreeNAS 8.0.4 Multimedia has also been released. This is a sneak preview of the multimedia support that will be available in FreeNAS 8.2.0.

At the moment the applications are not tied into the GUI. You will need to configure them on the CLI as described here: http://bit.ly/xGeLnj.

Read the full tutorial here: Building ZFS Based Network Attached Storage Using FreeNAS 8

The sections included are:

• Install
• Setting a Static IP Address
• Storage
• Add a User
• Sharing over the Network
• Connect from Windows

• Upgrade ataidle to 2.6.
• Upgrade nut / net-snmp to 2.6.2 and 5.7.1, respectively.
• Bump samba from 3.5.11 to 3.6.1.
• Bump netatalk to 2.2.1.
• NFSv4 ACL support.

A full list of changes and fixes can be found in the release notes. FreeNAS 8.0.3 is available to download for 32- and 64-bit systems. Note that previous builds were branded as i386/amd64 (32-bit and 64-bit respectively). 8.0.3-RC1+ rebranded the architectures as x86 and x64, respectively.

Other changes since 8.0.1

• Allow decimal numbers for a dataset quota.
• Fix setting recursive ACLs.
• Start proftpd after ix-ssl to use the correct SSL cert.
• Use wildcards in cron and rsync jobs instead of listing all values.r8211)
• Fix case in iSCSI targets to match the behavior specified by RFC 3722.

FreeNAS 8.0.2 can be downloaded from here and the full release notes from here.

8.0.1 is an important update for all FreeNAS 8.0 users and contains the following fixes and improvements:

• Django has been updated to 1.3.1 to address multiple security advisories.
• The base system has been updated to FreeBSD 8.2-p3, which addresses http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc & http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:04.compress.asc
• A New button to zpools that will display zpool status in a tab.
• Divorced the volume members in the database from the FreeBSD devices.
  This resolves an issue where FreeBSD can change devices names and the
  GUI doesn’t pick up the updates due to the devices names being hard-wired
  in the database.
• Support exporting ZFS zvols (virtual devices) as device extents via iSCSI.
  8.0 was only able to export physical device nodes or file based extents.
• The GUI now has an event notification system.
• Added UPS functionality.
• Added rsync client and server functionality.
• Added the ability to schedule cron jobs in the GUI.
• Vastly improved and reworked snapshot replication.
• SCSI target works with VMWare ESXi 5.0
• New email backend that provides interop with a range of mail servers (including gmail)
• Improvements in selecting iSCSI file extents
• Update to django 1.3.1 to address security issues in django
• Fix a bug that was preventing ldap over tls from working.
• Some machines panic with the usb 3.0 driver, move this from the kernel to a
• module so it can be disabled.
• Support mixed tagged and untagged vlan traffic on a physical interface.
• Added a “save debug” button which will save a tech dump of the freenas box.
• If the webgui is bound to an address the system no longer has listen on 0.0.0.0