Comments on: FreeNAS Tutorial for Windows Users – Part Two – Configuration

By: RJ

RJ — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:52:53 +0000

Thanks Dave
this solved my problems.!!!!

By: Flip Breukers

Flip Breukers — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:04:25 +0000

I gave up on Freenas. The problems I experienced solved themselves but the network performance was too poor. I have a cabled Gigabyte network but the performance from Freenas was slower than that of a 100 network. I finally installed Vista on the NAS machine which is overkill but good performance.

By: Art

Art — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:56:41 +0000

Great tutorial installed Freenas and I am up and running now just have to tweak it to my flavor Thank you keep up the good work !
Art

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:12:57 +0000

i was having trouble too with permissions, and i finally figured out that you can easily change the permissions for directories with the QuiXplorer file manager. Just go into /mnt and then your network share and in the right hand column called Perm’s, you can click the permissions and change them so anybody can write to them. Problem solved.

By: Georges Orwell

Georges Orwell — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:35:36 +0000

Hi,

Why do you say that we must put the dropdown partition on 2 ?
Can we have multiple share at the same level of data ?

Thanks

By: Flip Breukers

Flip Breukers — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:06:22 +0000

Hi,

thanks for the tutorial. I followed the steps and made my Freenas shares reappear. I have two Vista machines in my network and 1 Freenas server. Suddenly on one machine windows explorer doesn’t show the Freenas server anymore under network, only the Upnp server is shown. On the other machine explorer shows both server and shares. I can bring back the share with the \\freenas\ in the command line but how is it possible that explorer doesn’t show freenas anymore?

Thanks, Flip

By: Manuel

Manuel — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:00:47 +0000

Please, help? I have tried physically with the same result as SSH (logically).
I also tried putting in the “auxiliary parameters” writeable = yes and read only = no. It’s a hard drive connected by USB. I can write with the user root connected by SSH but not in the Windows access. Again, any ideas?
I would be eternally grateful for a little help. Thanks

Manu.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:41:22 +0000

Hey man, really thanks for the tutorial. It was very useful to me. But I have a little question, that is what I am writing you.
The case is , as the people above, that I am not able of write in the shared folders. I have tried the solution of @Tony but it didn’t work for me. (I did by SSH, should I do it physically in the server?).
For example, I have:

freenas:/mnt# ls -la
[...]
drwxrwxrwx 4 root wheel 512 Sep 5 11:55 interno
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32768 Jan 1 1980 usb

Then I do:
freenas:/mnt# chmod 777 usb

But as you can see, I get the same result.

freenas:/mnt# ls -la
total 38
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Sep 5 11:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 512 Sep 5 13:50 ..
drwxrwxrwx 4 root wheel 512 Sep 5 11:55 interno
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32768 Jan 1 1980 usb
freenas:/mnt#

Any ideas?

Sorry for my E

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:43:35 +0000

@nine – I didn’t post your long-winded f-bomb laden comments because you sir, are an idiot! Of COURSE I didn’t make FreeNAS. Any twelve year old could figure that out. Grow up. Get out of the tech industry – you have neither the attitude or the aptitude for it.

Rob

By: none

none — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:00:56 +0000

yeah i bet you dont post my comment. CAUSE YOU MAKE SHITTY APPLICATIONS and probably cant take the fact that they’re SHIT.

go on, ban me. CAUSE YOUR CRAP, and ALL YOUR SOFTWARE IS SHIT!!!

By: pman

pman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:10:18 +0000

I installed freenas but created a software RAID configuration with 2 drives – now I cannot select this configuration for the mount part of the instructions. Also when the machine boots it always needs to boot from the CD – how can it be actually installed on a system with two raid drives?

By: Derek D

Derek D — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:09:42 +0000

hey im really having some trouble here, i set it up fine i believe, followed all the steps exactly. when i went to \\freenas\data i made folders called videos and music. when i tried to add movies to my videos folder it says I only have 6 gigs but my hard drive is 500gb.. what do i do? im really stuck

By: tico

tico — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:11:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing your Knowlegdes

By: rob

rob — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:48:24 +0000

@Andy – really glad it helped. This series still gets a ton of hits – this long after I wrote it. Wish I could do an update. I know much has changed. Just don’t have the time right now.

Anyway, happy to be of service!

Rob

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:23:42 +0000

Rob, thanks so much for this whole tutorial series. I just followed your instructions to the letter, and now my office of 8 has a FreeNAS server made entirely from duct tape, along with lots of SyncToyed PCs. And they think I’m a genius.
Andy

By: Pokey

Pokey — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:40:51 +0000

I believe that the problem some people are having with FreeNAS and SMB/CIFS is to do with the installation of single drive Systems. When putting shares in the mnt/ path and not using a mount point pointing to another partition or drive there are security issues. This is not a bug it is by design, to prevent the System being more easily hacked.

Cheers

Good luck

By: NotSoEasy

NotSoEasy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:09:15 +0000

Yeah you could scrap the freeNas and just use LinuxSME. It seems like FreeNAS has alot of bugs.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:28:33 +0000

Help please!!.
I cannot get my freenas system to stop asking for guest password.
I have followed instructions detailed above but to no avail. I have completely reinstalled but all is the same.
Does anybody have any clues?

Dave

By: Ingo

Ingo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:54:38 +0000

I could add, i see a lot of errors like the following, and would image it has to do with this …

Feb 26 16:50:00 winbindd[2452]: [2009/02/26 16:50:00, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_group.c:winbindd_getgrent(1110)
Feb 26 16:50:00 winbindd[2452]: could not lookup domain group wins users

By: Ingo

Ingo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:52:48 +0000

Hello,

I love the easy set-up of FreeNAS. But I am stuck with one issue … Our original windows file server blew out. Now the data are on another machine on a spare disk. It is now time to move them to the FreeNAS server, but I would like to preserve the Ownership and Access permissions. How would I go about this. If I simply copy the data to the FreeNAS server, what belonged to the group “users” before now all belongs to “ingo”. It must be some problem with the Server talking to the domain server or so, but I am clueless. Any ideas ?