A bit lost with regard to sharing setup

[knubbze]

I have a HP Microserver with 4 x 2TB HDDs (which I intend to configure in RAIDZ2 format for a ~3.6TB zpool), and an external eSATA 4TB 'backup' drive (to which I intend to run nightly/weekly replications of said zpool). The machine will be deployed as a central NAS as part of a home network consisting of (mostly) Windows client machines.

The hardware and initial installation of FreeNAS was very straightforward, but I've now come a bit unstuck at the sharing configuration stage. My intended share setup was as follows:

• Read-only 'Music' and 'Video' folders, which are available to everyone on the network, WITHOUT requiring username/pass credentials (for ease of access with portable devices, media players etc)
• Then a series of 'personal' directories for my documents, backups, etc. These directories would require authentication to access, but I would also like read/write access to the aforementioned Music and Video folders, so that I am able to add new content.

But is it possible to have both anonymous (for the Music/Video shares), and authenticated shares running at the same time? Because when configuring the CIFS service in the GUI, I am only able to choose EITHER 'Anonymous' OR 'Local User'. I can't figure out how to have both running simultaneously.

 

[russnas]

what are you accessing it by?, you created two cifs shares under sharing, one for users and one for read only i tick export read only, allow guests and only allow guests, and you can access them both at once,i have create a folder called public and then put the media in there since you have to select a folder unless you want to create more shares, i have that option set in cifs to local users,

 

[cyberjock]

Windows will only allow 1 username/password combo per connection to the server. So if you try to access \\freenas\personaldirectory and put in a username and password then try to access \\freenas\music(which is anonymous) it should work. But if you add in \\freenas\secondpersonaldirectory and want a different username and password than the first share, Windows won't let you. It's a Windows limitation and not a FreeNAS issue.

 

[russnas]

I see so its a windows limitation, I had a read only anonymous mapped drive in my computer and I couldn't login to my other account till I removed it, windows kept saying one account per computer.thanks