[Novalug] A Plea for NAS Help

Derek LaHousse dlahouss@mtu.edu
Sun Jun 8 19:57:20 EDT 2014


I have no help for you, but I want to congratulate you on your awesome
question-asking format.

If you have multiple computers using the same accounts, have you
considered using LDAP or AD to manage the accounts?


On Sun, 2014-06-08 at 15:23 -0400, Charles R. Head wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> This is a short status report on my project to set up a NAS – and a
> plea for assistance in hopefully completing the job.
> 
> Here's the status -- I've done the following:
> 
>      1. Bought an HP Proliant MiniServer Gen8.
>         
>      2. Installed a CD/DVD drive and 16GB of RAM in the server.
>      3. Plugged a 32GB thumb drive into the USB port on the server's
>         mother board.
>      4. Booted the server from a live CD copy of FreeNAS Ver. 9.2.1.5.
>      5. Installed FreeNAS onto the 32 GB thumb drive.
>      6. Removed the CD, booted into FreeNAS on the thumb drive and
>         configured FreeNAS.
>      7. BTW, my LAN is set up as a workgroup, not a domain.
> 
> The FreeNAS configuration I set up is as follows:
> 
>      1. Four user accounts on the NAS:
>         
>              1. root
>              2. me
>              3. my wife
>              4. guest
>      2. A single RAIDZ1 (~equivalent to a RAID5) array comprised of
>         four 2TB HDDs.
>         
>      3. A single dataset in the RAIDZ array.
>      4. Shares pointed to the following:
>              1. Windows share to the RAIDZ1 array.
>              2. NFS share to the RAIDZ1 array.
>              3. Windows share to the dataset.
>              4. NFS share to the dataset
>      5. Share permissions set to:
>         
>              1. Allow guests.
>              2. Mapall User & Mapall Group – I've tried both nobody
>                 and my NAS account.
> 
> The bad news is that, after the above, using both Windows and Linux
> workstations on my LAN, I can browse to the point where I can see the
> shares on my NAS, but I can't open them because my credentials are not
> recognized. I've tried my NAS account, the root NAS account, the NAS
> guest account, and “nobody” – all to no avail. I've also tried mapping
> to the shares on the NAS, with the same result. Whether I'm browsing
> or mapping, I can't connect to the NAS shares because my user
> credentials are not recognized. For what it's worth, I sometimes have
> the same credential recognition problem when browsing from one of my
> workstations to another, even though I always set up the same user &
> admin accounts on each one.
> 
> 
> Now on to the plea. Does anyone have any idea what I need to do to get
> my user credentials recognized and allow my workstations to connect to
> the shares on my NAS?
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you for any help, hints or suggestions you can give me.  I've
> run out of ideas for now.
> 
> 
> Charlie Head
> 
> 
> 
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