[Novalug] A Plea for NAS Help

Dan Lavu side_control@runlevelone.net
Mon Jun 9 00:15:35 EDT 2014


When you are entering the credentials, by default windows appends the domain name or host, e.g. HOST\username make sure this is correct. 

Also a raid 1 is not a raid 5, a raid 1 is a direct copy of the other drive. A raid 5 is a minimum of 3 drives with 1 disk for parity. For example, 100g drive in a raid 1 it's a 100g between 2 disks, raid 5 will have two drives that contain storage space while the third contains rebuild information and will have a total of 200g. 


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> On Jun 8, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss@mtu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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