[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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