All my shares stopped working and I cannot get new ones to work.

[mynewromantica]

Let me start by saying, I am relatively new to FreeNAS, but I have had this server running for about a year with no major issues. Here is the build I am using.

A few days ago all of my shares stopped working. After trying to fix them, and getting no where I thought I would just start over. I deleted all of my users, groups, and shares. I found this video to help me through setting everything back up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVJQ0Vx_6i4

I am trying to create an AFP share first. Then I will need to do the same thing for a CIFS share.

My first question: Do I have to create a new dataset or can I use an existing data set for a user? What is the proper way of doing this? Just change the owner in the permissions of the dataset?

I followed the steps in that video except for creating a new dataset and I am unable to connect to the server through finder. I tried browsing to the "Shared" section of finder, clicking on the FreeNAS machine, connect as, put in the password for the user, and it does not connect. Then I tried to connect through Command+K, and putting in AFP://Free.nas.IP. Nothing happens. Not even a dialog for logging in.

At this point I have absolutely no clue what I am doing wrong. This stuff worked just fine when I set it up the first time.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Here is the build I am using.

Looks like you forgot to paste.

Do I have to create a new dataset or can I use an existing data set for a user?

No need to make a new dataset, but for sanity checking when things are not working it can't hurt.

This stuff worked just fine when I set it up the first time.

Based on your symptoms and what you've tried without success, my wild guess is that this is nothing to do with FreeNAS, and that you probably have some kind of network issue.

 

[mynewromantica]

Looks like you forgot to paste.

No need to make a new dataset, but for sanity checking when things are not working it can't hurt.

Based on your symptoms and what you've tried without success, my wild guess is that this is nothing to do with FreeNAS, and that you probably have some kind of network issue.

Yup, I forgot to paste. I am running FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201509282017

Any ideas what I should look at on my network? I haven't made any recent changes there.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I would start by looking for an IP address conflict.