Hi All, After a lot of trial and error, I wanted to share how I’ve discovered one can share files between macOS and TrueNAS Scale over Thunderbolt networking. I figured I’d write this down to remember the steps and help anyone else who might be interested in doing the same as I couldn’t find any gu…

Thunderbolt Networking between macOS and TrueNAS

afishinsea January 1, 2025, 9:19pm 3

Thanks for the fb!

It turns out editing the interface, leaving it at its defaults (DHCP/IPv6 auto), and saving added it to the interfaces permanently. Now hotplug appears to be working properly as well

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Thunderbolt Networking between macOS and TrueNAS

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