Cannot see shares on any device

[wibblnz]

I have successfully been using FreeNAS for a few years and decided to build a new NAS box based on an Acer Aspire (mainly because power use is under 50W with 2x SATA drives). BUT - try as I might I am unable to see the root / shares that I have setup.
I had zero problems setting up FreeNAS and expected NAS4Free to be very similar (BTW it's great that the setup pages are so similar).

I even went back to FreeNAS but unfortunately this doesn't 'see' the DVD drive after it has booted from it, so I can't create the bootable SD card - so I'm stuck with trying to get NAS4Free going.

I can not see the 'nas4free' on the Windows 7 PCs on my network or an Android tablet that all see the FreeNAS box still running on the network.

I'm not that familiar with the command line checks so if someone can guide me thru the checking process I'd really appreciate the help and it might help others too.

The GUI innterface works fine.
Andy

[raulfg3]

please post your SMB config and your shares config (only one if all are config in the same way).

[wibblnz]

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please post your SMB config and your shares config (only one if all are config in the same way).

Great, thanks for helping. Heres the screen grabs hope they are the right ones:

smb1.jpg

smb2.jpg

[alexey123]

wibblnz
You need define your disk in first

[wibblnz]

Sorry I had the disk added as a share before but just hadn't added is again. I don't have a disk added as share in FreeNAS so assumed it wasn't required.
Added as you can see but makes no difference I'm afraid.
Andy

smb3.jpg

[wibblnz]

I see no active shares in the Diagnostics / SMB / CIFS area either (but I don't see any on the FreeNAS page either so I guess thats ok)

[alexey123]

In first - Freebsd sequrity not give share /mnt/ folder
Remove this share from smb - share
Second
You mount your disk into /mnt/MountPointName/ Also not good idea share all mounted partition - you give unix-permission for it - 777.
Read here about it

As result.
You need create folder into your drive, such smbshare with path /mnt/MountPointName/smbshare and configure smb share for it.

A simpler explanation
The distance from the root to the shared resource must be greater than 2 folders.

[wibblnz]

Ok... How can I create a folder within the drive if I cannot access it? Is this possible from within the NAS4Free GUI?
Also - how is it that I am able to share the entire /mnt/ folder in FreeNAS but I can't in NAS4Free? (and I can't see what security problem can arise unless I allow access from outside my LAN).
Are you saying that I have to set the permissions manually for a share to work?
Look - I really appreciate your help here, but I can't see why this NAS software is so different from FreeNAS.
I'll have a read of the smbshare info though anyway and see if I can make sense of it.
Andy

[raulfg3]

in autentification, change it to anonimous ( once work, you can experiment / change to local user if necessary).
Disable "local Master Browser & time Server" ( Disable = NO)

Delete actual share root and 1TB, you can't share the root folder ( you can't share /mnt/), you have several options.

1- if use ZFS, create as many dataset as shares you need ( when you create a dataset, a folder is created in mnt/1TB and you can share this folder)

eg: you create a dataset named Video, so a folder Video is created in /mnt/1TB ->>> /mnt/1TB/Video <<<--- Now you can share this.

2 - Use Shell and navigate to /mnt ( cd /mnt/1TB ), create folders that you need ( mkdir /mnt/1TB/{Video,Data,Photo,Backup,Music,Private} ), and share this folders.


with this rules, may work.

[alexey123]

Ok... How can I create a folder within the drive if I cannot access it? Is this possible from within the NAS4Free GUI?

1. Over ssh-shell (such PuTTY or WinSCP)
2. Over file manager
3. Over advanced|command : mkdir /mnt/mountpointname/foldername

Also - how is it that I am able to share the entire /mnt/ folder in FreeNAS but I can't in NAS4Free? (and I can't see what security problem can arise unless I allow access from outside my LAN).

This is FreeBSD restrictions, you can know only - path need content more then 2 folder.

A

re you saying that I have to set the permissions manually for a share to work?

Yes.
You need learn about Unix permissions. For example anonymous access over smb - your shared files and folders need be able for user ftp.

[wibblnz]

Ok... How can I create a folder within the drive if I cannot access it? Is this possible from within the NAS4Free GUI?

1. Over ssh-shell (such PuTTY or WinSCP)
2. Over file manager
3. Over advanced|command : mkdir /mnt/mountpointname/foldername

Thanks - yes I have created folders within the share now

Also - how is it that I am able to share the entire /mnt/ folder in FreeNAS but I can't in NAS4Free? (and I can't see what security problem can arise unless I allow access from outside my LAN).

This is FreeBSD restrictions, you can know only - path need content more then 2 folder.

Ok. Odd that FreeNAS uses freebsd and doesnt have the restriction

A

re you saying that I have to set the permissions manually for a share to work?

Yes.
You need learn about Unix permissions. For example anonymous access over smb - your shared files and folders need be able for user ftp.

I thought that this would 'work out of the box' and could be setup from within the GUI. Guess I was wrong.
No change so far for me the box is not visible to any PC or device. I'll persevere for a while but I'm not hopeful I must admit.

Thanks for the help all though, appreciate it.
Andy