FreeNAS - wtf?

[shovenose]

Sorry, I'm not real knowledgable about disks.
Could somebody please explain to me how to fix this?
I just installed FreeNAS for the first time. It's a dell vostro 200 with 2gb of ram dual core intel cpu and a single 750gb hdd.
Should I put in a lousy old 40gb sata disk i have to install freenas on then use th 750gb for storage only?
thanks

[Mad_Professor]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Did you just install freenas or was this a running setup with an unexpected oops?

Looks like it can't find the disk or you have a bad install or it's missing the driver for sata chipset, or worst case you have a bad hard-drive.

[selldoor]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Is the drive recognised in the bios?

[Time2Retire]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Sounds like it isn't set up properly. Maybe time to consult the documentation?

http://www.freenas.org/images/resour..._428_145473606

http://www.freenas.org/images/resour...8.3_guide.html

[Time2Retire]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

It may be a BIOS setting:

I'm having trouble booting after upgrading/installing FreeNAS™ and get the error:

Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a

mount: /dev/ufs/FreeNASs3 : No such file or directory

User @beyondbuxton found this worked, while other users said it didn't:

Enter BIOS. Select Advanced, IDE Configuration. ATA/IDE config had been set to "Enhanced". I set it to "Compatible", hit F10, and watched FreeNAS™ 8.0.1-REL boot.

It may be worth verifying that "Legacy IDE" is set to "PATA PRI, SATA SEC".

Found here:

http://forums.freenas.org/faq.php?faq=general_freenas

[shovenose]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

It is already set to IDE - my two options are "IDE" and "RAID"
It certainly detects the drive because it boots from it that far and it was detected in the installer.

[shovenose]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Sounds like it isn't set up properly. Maybe time to consult the documentation?

http://www.freenas.org/images/resour..._428_145473606

http://www.freenas.org/images/resour...8.3_guide.html

Fine, I will RTFM

[Time2Retire]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

It is complaining that it can't locate root. It is looking for it in this location:

/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a

I don't know what kind of command options are available to you in that terminal. But can you confirm that the location even exists? I am thinking using simple Linux/Unix commands, like 'cd' to the /dev/ufs directory and use 'ls' to list the contents of the directory.

EDIT: It does say to enter '?' to list valid boot devices. Worth a try to see what it thinks are valid boot devices.

[shovenose]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

OK it's working now.
I installed it on a 40GB drive so the 750GB is purely storage

[Mad_Professor]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

It is complaining that it can't locate root. It is looking for it in this location:

/dev/ufs/FreeNASs1a

I don't know what kind of command options are available to you in that terminal. But can you confirm that the location even exists? I am thinking using simple Linux/Unix commands, like 'cd' to the /dev/ufs directory and use 'ls' to list the contents of the directory.

EDIT: It does say to enter '?' to list valid boot devices. Worth a try to see what it thinks are valid boot devices.

Looks like it was trying to boot from CD or using disk labels you can edit fstab and change it to id-by-disk.

[shovenose]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Looks like it was trying to boot from CD or using disk labels you can edit fstab and change it to id-by-disk.

Well it's fixed now.

How do I set permissions for CIFS shares? I'm having some trouble with it.
Thanks

[Time2Retire]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

I'm not clear exactly what operating system you have this installed on. Is it a version of Linux, or is it Solaris or something else.

Sharing files & folders from a Linux system to Windows users uses the Samba application. You need to set up your shares with that application, usually using config files, a smb.config file I believe is the main one.

[shovenose]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

FreeNAS is a Linux distro itself.
All of my computers run Windows

[smason]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

I'm not clear exactly what operating system you have this installed on. Is it a version of Linux, or is it Solaris or something else.

It's a "NAS for dummies" distro based on FreeBSD

[Time2Retire]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

FreeNAS is a Linux distro itself.
All of my computers run Windows

It's a "NAS for dummies" distro based on FreeBSD

Well, which one is it?

I looked at the FreeNAS web site, and it is FreeBSD. I have never used that, and don't know how similar it is or isn't to Linux. It does say it uses Samba for CIF shares, and provides this page to help in the setup of Samba:

http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Win...CIFS%29_Shares

[smason]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Well, which one is it?

FreeBSD is FreeBSD, little if anything to do with Linux other than the commands being similar. As far as i can remember anyway, it's been a while....

[shovenose]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

FreeBSD is FreeBSD, little if anything to do with Linux other than the commands being similar. As far as i can remember anyway, it's been a while....

Sorry, I meant FreeBSD but I understand some of the stuff because it's the same, such as the way it displays server load, etc.

[Mad_Professor]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Well it's fixed now.

How do I set permissions for CIFS shares? I'm having some trouble with it.
Thanks

Make a directory, set the permissions I usually do 777 for it then vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

depending on how secure you want it and if you want public or private shares, refer to samba for more details.

This is my smb.conf, everyone can read, write and excute.

[global]
workgroup = workgroup
server string = File Server
netbios name = fileserver
security = SHARE
log level = 0
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536
read raw = yes
write raw = yes
aio read size = 1
aio write size = 1
use sendfile = Yes
acl check permissions = no
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
profile acls = yes
nt acl support = no

[Backup's]
path = /storage/Backup's
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[Drivers]
path = /storage2/Drivers
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[Games]
path = /storage2/Games
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[Movies]
path = /storage2/Movies
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[Software]
path = /storage2/software
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[Technician Software]
path = /storage2/Technician Software
read only = no
guest ok = yes


[Tech for 9.x]
path = /storage2/Technician Software
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[Temp Transfers]
path = /storage2/Temp Transfers
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes

Hope this helps.

[Time2Retire]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Make a directory, set the permissions I usually do 777 for it then vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

depending on how secure you want it and if you want public or private shares, refer to samba for more details.

This is my smb.conf, everyone can read, write and excute.

Why would you want to allow anyone and everyone to be able to execute scripts or binaries on your system? This is how systems can then be easily compromised.

[Mad_Professor]

Re: FreeNAS - wtf?

Why would you want to allow anyone and everyone to be able to execute scripts or binaries on your system? This is how systems can then be easily compromised.

When you execute something from the client end, it doesn't execute it on the server, it executes it on the client machine. If I didn't have the execute permission, I would not be able to execute it from a windows share, I would have to copy it over and then execute it. Only downside to this is if you execute it on a infected machine, the file itself is prone to infection, but it would not spread on the server and only infect other machines that execute that file too.

Plus SMB/CIFS is like NFS it should only be used on local networks and vpn, and never be open to the internet, that's what ftp and http is for.