<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I thought I would ask here too. I’m asking roughly the same questions on the TrueNAS community boards. I don’t seem to be alone in this problem.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TrueNAS is using version 0.7 of avahi. When I boot up fresh, things work fine. Eventually my Mac laptop can not find via the Finder the SMB shares that the NAS is providing. In my case there are two shares. One is for Time Machine and the other is Users. The Users share I can mount via the Mac’s “Go To Server” and I type in the address: <a href="smb://truenas.local/Users/pedz" class="">smb://truenas.local/Users/pedz</a> and it connects. The Time Machine GUI interface really doesn’t allow me to do this. It has to find the share via mDNS and since it isn’t working, it can’t find it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have a 3rd party app called Discovery that appears to work and tells me all of the mDNS stuff that is on the network. Nothing from the Truenas shows up when it is “broken”. To repeat, when I boot up fresh, it works and eventually stops working after a few weeks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Truenas has a toggle via a web browser GUI to turn mDNS on or off. When it is on, there are 10 files in /usr/local/etc/avahi/services and a process that looks like:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">avahi 94347 5.1 0.0 13008 4148 - S 18:08 0:00.21 avahi-daemon: registering [truenas.local] (avahi-daemon)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I make a copy of the 10 files in the services directory, then off mDNS in the Truenas GUI, copy the 10 files back, and then start avahi-daemon with —debug and get what appears to be all happy messages:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Found user 'avahi' (UID 200) and group 'avahi' (GID 200).<br class="">Successfully dropped root privileges.<br class="">avahi-daemon 0.7 starting up.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ADISK.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/AFPOVERTCP.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/DEV_INFO.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/HTTP.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/HTTPS.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/MIDDLEWARE.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/MIDDLEWARE_SSL.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/SFTP_SSH.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/SMB.service.<br class="">Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/SSH.service.<br class="">Joining mDNS multicast group on interface ix0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.3.<br class="">New relevant interface ix0.IPv4 for mDNS.<br class="">Network interface enumeration completed.<br class="">Registering new address record for fe80::3cec:efff:fe6d:2ab6 on vnet0.3.*.<br class="">Registering new address record for fe80::3cec:efff:fe2b:5fe2 on vnet0.1.*.<br class="">Registering new address record for 192.168.1.3 on ix0.IPv4.<br class="">Server startup complete. Host name is truenas.local. Local service cookie is 535196288.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The IPv4 addresses above are correct. The interface is correct. The hostname is correct.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The only thing I can find that looks odd are lines like this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[2022/04/28 17:01:19] (WARNING) middlewared.plugins.service_.services.base_freebsd.freebsd_service():136 - Failed to forcestop avahi-daemon with code 255 with error 'Stopping avahi-daemon.\nFailed to kill daemon: No such file or directory\n’</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The first one of those is dated 4/9 and I believe things were still working up until 4/17.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Truenas is a Free BSD system.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your time and help,</div><div class="">Perry</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>