[Novalug] A Plea for NAS Help

Charles Richard Head CharlesRHead@Netscape.Net
Mon Jun 9 12:02:17 EDT 2014


*Derek,*

RAIDZ is a software RAID approach that is being pushed strongly by 
FreeNAS as a means of addressing shortcomings in traditional RAID. I'd 
never run into it before I started trying to configure FreeNAS on my new 
NAS device.  Here are some links that might help:

Pro:  http://www.racktopsystems.com/knowledge/terminology/raidz/

Con?:  https://blogs.oracle.com/ahl/entry/what_is_raid_z

I'm neither Pro or Con at this point.  I just decided to try it out.

*Charlie Head*

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On 06/09/2014 06:03 AM, Derek LaHousse wrote:
> But what is a RAID Z1?  This is claimed equivalent to the RAID 5
>
>
> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 00:15 -0400, Dan Lavu wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> 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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