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    FreeNAS setup help?

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Mike Ralston
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      @Mike-Ralston said:

      It's another type of system I can work with, so I'll figure out what I did wrong with this one, and then do the other.

      Sure, all learning is good learning. Some is more efficient though. If you want to learn the most, do straight FreeBSD and then OpenSuse.

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      • ?
        A Former User
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        I like FreeBSD myself. Never used FreeNAS in a buinsess environment. If you are going with something that simple it usually will end up being just a windows file server based NAS.

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        • ?
          A Former User
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          I'd look at GlusterFS on centos over freenas

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @A Former User
            last edited by

            @thecreativeone91 said:

            I'd look at GlusterFS on centos over freenas

            If building a cluster, definitely.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @A Former User
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              @thecreativeone91 said:

              I like FreeBSD myself.

              I love it, just not for storage tasks generally. It's its one major architectural weak point.

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              • Mike RalstonM
                Mike Ralston @coliver
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                @coliver said:

                I'm sure you've already seen this post but it may help to double-check your work:
                https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/cifs-windows-sharing-guide.20948/

                I followed all of these steps, and everything looks to be set up properly, except, I can't enable the CIFS service, and it doesn't tell me why. It just says "This Service Could Not Be Started".

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @Mike Ralston
                  last edited by

                  @Mike-Ralston said:

                  @coliver said:

                  I'm sure you've already seen this post but it may help to double-check your work:
                  https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/cifs-windows-sharing-guide.20948/

                  I followed all of these steps, and everything looks to be set up properly, except, I can't enable the CIFS service, and it doesn't tell me why. It just says "This Service Could Not Be Started".

                  If I remember correctly that means that something is wrong with your config file. I haven't worked with CIFS shares on Linux in a while... Can you look into the log and see if there is an issue there? Generally it says the line number an error occurred on.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    Ah, well that's a huge step. That the service isn't started means that there is no reason to be looking at firewalls and such. There is something wrong with the service.

                    We need to look a the logs and see what errors are being recorded.

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                    • Mike RalstonM
                      Mike Ralston @coliver
                      last edited by

                      @coliver Where do I find the Log?

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        Should be /var/log/daemon.log

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                        • coliverC
                          coliver @Mike Ralston
                          last edited by

                          @Mike-Ralston said:

                          @coliver Where do I find the Log?

                          I'm not sure with FreeBSD or FreeNAS. Generally it is in something like /var/log/messages. Although that may be different on this server.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @coliver
                            last edited by

                            @coliver said:

                            I'm not sure with FreeBSD or FreeNAS. Generally it is in something like /var/log/messages. Although that may be different on this server.

                            /var/log/messages is RHEL only.

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                            • coliverC
                              coliver @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller Good to know.

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                              • Mike RalstonM
                                Mike Ralston @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller None of those work. They actually do nothing but bring up the main page again.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @coliver
                                  last edited by

                                  @coliver said:

                                  @scottalanmiller Good to know.

                                  Even Ubuntu uses something different.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    if you do this we can see all of the available logs...

                                    ls /var/log
                                    
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                                    • Mike RalstonM
                                      Mike Ralston @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller Doesn't work. Neither the virtualized WebUI console, nor the physical server, accept any commands.

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                                      • ?
                                        A Former User
                                        last edited by

                                        All the logs are under /var/log but they are stored in memory and not preseistant. You need a syslog server if you want them presistant.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @Mike Ralston
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                                          @Mike-Ralston said:

                                          @scottalanmiller Doesn't work. Neither the virtualized WebUI console, nor the physical server, accept any commands.

                                          Well that's another issue altogether. Maybe you need a working OS before trying to get the apps on top of it running 😉 This is like telling your mechanic that something is wrong and you can't get to the store when you know that the issue is that the garage door hasn't been opened yet. Let's get the garage door open before we look at the car, the car might run just fine.

                                          What is a virtualized WebUI console? You have two FreeNAS devices, one virtual and one physical?

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                                          • Mike RalstonM
                                            Mike Ralston @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller FreeNAS is the OS level software. The only way you can properly access it is by navigating to it's IP from a PC within the LAN.

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