voyager529
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- Jul 27, 2011
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Hello everyone!
Here's my situation: I've got a Nas4Free box that's my primary NAS, built with identical hard drives, an LSI controller card, etc. I recently built a secondary box running ESXi that I've dubbed "The FrankenNAS", as it's an amalgam of whatever parts I had lying around. I just got done reading the threads on what a bad idea using non-ECC RAM is, so I'm completely aware that the FrankenNAS is the kind of situation that would get me yelled at quite loudly...which is why it's a pet project instead of anything I'm deeming "production grade", but I digress.
FreeNAS is a VM using 4GB of RAM with 4x800GB virtual hard disks assigned to it in a RAIDz configuration, otherwise fairly bone stock. It's got two datasets, mnt/nas/jails (playing with some plug-ins), and /mnt/nas/sync, where Bittorrent Sync was originally downloaded. Now what worked for me on the N4F box (where everything is happily functioning) was to make a new dataset, wget the .tar.gz file, extract it into a folder, and then add an init script that would run the executable at startup. N4F, things are perfectly happy. FreeNAS...not so much.
In my initial attempt to make this happen, I did basically the same thing. The application ran fine, I was able to access the browser interface and do my thing. The problem was simple - things weren't syncing. I couldn't get files to replicate, be it from my laptop or my other NAS. My first thought was that it was a permissions issue, so I chmod'd the whole dataset to 777 (yes, I know...), even though btsync was running as root (yes, I know...). Even under those circumstances, I couldn't get the FreeNAS box to pull files either from my laptop or my N4F unit, both of which have been happily talking for quite some time.
I came to the forums to look around, and it turned out that there was a PBI for the application. I downloaded it and ran the installer, but no luck. By "no luck", I mean "couldn't access the UI at all, let alone get files to transfer". I did add the folder in the 'sync' dataset to the fstab via the gui, but still no luck. I could see the plug-in, which was technically running, on the books...but no luck getting it to do anything else.
Google searching confirms my N4F experience, and leads me to believe that I'm not entirely inept and that I did perform the steps correctly. All machines were tested on the same LAN, with LAN searching explicitly enabled, including adding specific hosts. I also tried 'nudging' it by making a manual config file using nano and the template export, also to no avail.
I appreciate any and all assistance in this regard. Thank you in advance.
Joey
Here's my situation: I've got a Nas4Free box that's my primary NAS, built with identical hard drives, an LSI controller card, etc. I recently built a secondary box running ESXi that I've dubbed "The FrankenNAS", as it's an amalgam of whatever parts I had lying around. I just got done reading the threads on what a bad idea using non-ECC RAM is, so I'm completely aware that the FrankenNAS is the kind of situation that would get me yelled at quite loudly...which is why it's a pet project instead of anything I'm deeming "production grade", but I digress.
FreeNAS is a VM using 4GB of RAM with 4x800GB virtual hard disks assigned to it in a RAIDz configuration, otherwise fairly bone stock. It's got two datasets, mnt/nas/jails (playing with some plug-ins), and /mnt/nas/sync, where Bittorrent Sync was originally downloaded. Now what worked for me on the N4F box (where everything is happily functioning) was to make a new dataset, wget the .tar.gz file, extract it into a folder, and then add an init script that would run the executable at startup. N4F, things are perfectly happy. FreeNAS...not so much.
In my initial attempt to make this happen, I did basically the same thing. The application ran fine, I was able to access the browser interface and do my thing. The problem was simple - things weren't syncing. I couldn't get files to replicate, be it from my laptop or my other NAS. My first thought was that it was a permissions issue, so I chmod'd the whole dataset to 777 (yes, I know...), even though btsync was running as root (yes, I know...). Even under those circumstances, I couldn't get the FreeNAS box to pull files either from my laptop or my N4F unit, both of which have been happily talking for quite some time.
I came to the forums to look around, and it turned out that there was a PBI for the application. I downloaded it and ran the installer, but no luck. By "no luck", I mean "couldn't access the UI at all, let alone get files to transfer". I did add the folder in the 'sync' dataset to the fstab via the gui, but still no luck. I could see the plug-in, which was technically running, on the books...but no luck getting it to do anything else.
Google searching confirms my N4F experience, and leads me to believe that I'm not entirely inept and that I did perform the steps correctly. All machines were tested on the same LAN, with LAN searching explicitly enabled, including adding specific hosts. I also tried 'nudging' it by making a manual config file using nano and the template export, also to no avail.
I appreciate any and all assistance in this regard. Thank you in advance.
Joey