Can't find FreeNAS on the network

[dseb]

I'm running FreeNAS 9.1 on the box I have it set up on. It's an old laptop that I took out of the case, removed screen and unneccessary components so all that's left is the motherboard, harddrive, all that stuff. It worked great, I had MiniDLNA configured and everything, and I was using it as a media server. It was always at 192.168.1.122.
One day I turned it on and the media server didn't show up, so I went to check on it's status and I couldn't access it at its normal path. When it's on and connected I can't find the path to the Web GUI. Is there any way to find how to locate it on the network with no screen attached?

 

[PinkyThePig]

Log in to your router and check the connected devices. On DD WRT this can be accomplished by going to Status > LAN > Active Clients

Alternatively you can make a good guess and brute force it. If on windows open a command prompt and type ipconfig. Then try IPs that are around that same number. e.g. If you get 192.168.1.101 then try 102, 103, 104 etc.

There are other ways to get devices connected to your network via apps and other such things but these two should get you in the right direction.

 

[gpsguy]

As PinkyThePig said, checking your DHCP server (router?) is the probably the easiest way to find it - assuming that it's up and running okay.

If you get connected to it, change the configuration to use a static IP address.

 

[russnas]

connect the screen see what ip is assigned
as above, did you make a static IP,? you have to otherwise your modem will assign the device an ip so try 121,123

 

[bigunk]

I'm struggling along kinda the same line here. I set up the box and it got a DHCP of 192.168.0.165. I was able to set up a quick CIFS share. Cool, but I want to have the box at 192.168.0.22, so I went into network | interfaces and added the interface (only thing I could find). Now, I can hit the GUI at .22, but my share comes up as no permission, and it's completely gone on .165. So I'm rather confused here. Is there some place to configure the IP address where shares talk through that's different from the management IP?

I guess I should state that this box was a Centos samba box at one time. I'm okay at setting those up, but I wanted something that was a bit easier to manage. I've gone through the pain of raw linux and lived to tell about it, but I'm getting old, cranky, and impatient.

 

[Whattteva]

I'm not understanding what you're asking.
Are you trying to have management under one IP and shares under a different IP or you want them both under one IP?

If you want two IP's you would need to configure the shares under a jail, which would probably require more shell knowledge that you are trying to avoid.

 

[bigunk]

Management and communication on the same IP address is just fine. For the time being, I created a sticky DHCP on my router, so no big deal there. Now, I'm running into "cannot GPT format disk...". Weird, since earlier today, I got all 5 drives up and running. The shares failed when I messed with the IP addressing, so I tore it down and started again. That's when the fun started.

FYI, and I know many will sneer at this, I'm doing 5 drives, each a separate volume and each a separate share. ZFS or whatever will come later when I can afford new drives.

 

[Whattteva]

You called it. I'm definitely going ??? at that setup. Unless, of course if all 5 of your drives happen to be all different sizes.

 

[gpsguy]

Try wiping the drives first. Either from the webgui, or if that fails, use Darik's Boot & Nuke.

Now, I'm running into "cannot GPT format disk...". Weird, since earlier today, I got all 5 drives up and running.

 

[bigunk]

I have 4 1TB drives, a 320, and a 4TB. The server has been an evolution. It started with dual 250s, then dual 500s, then dual 1TBs. Then I went for 5 1TBs. Each drive had different content and I didn't know enough about RAID on Centos, nor did I think using the on-board RAID controller would be a good idea. So by the time I hit 5TB, I realized I had no viable backup solution, so I built another machine with the same capacity. Then I swapped out one drive on each for a 4TB. It's a good thing I had two machines, as the one I'm working on was my primary server and one of the drives started kicking errors, so I took it offline, switched the IP address of the backup server, and was up and running in a few minutes. I've been running on the backup server (now primary) for some time now and really wanted to get a new backup online, so here we are now.

I did a full wipe on the drives, and they formatted right up, so that's a good thing.

Now, I just need to figure out permissions so stuff that's related to my business is accessible only by me, while home and other stuff can be accessed by others in my house. This looks a lot like SAMBA, but I'm having trouble assigning ownership, groups, and permissions to directories. Any tips would be most appreciated. If we need to start another thread on this or if you want to chase to one that has what I need to see, I'm cool with that.

 

[gpsguy]

Yes, please do.

If we need to start another thread on this ...

For permissions, peruse the documentation and search the forum. You should find some good examples.

If you do post a message, let us know whether you're doing UFS or ZFS. With the latter, Datasets would probably be advantageous for your environment.

 

[bigunk]

I'll have a look and see what I find. I'm running UFS right now. It seems that's the only way to have the discreet drives show up. Truth is I really want to do ZFS, but I haven't the money to buy a whole set of drives. Soon...

 

[gpsguy]

You can create a single drive ZFS volume. I just did for 3 different sized drives in a VM. You could also mix UFS and ZFS volumes, if need be. One feature you get with ZFS, is the ability to take snapshots. You might want to do it for your business.

 

[bigunk]

Didn't know that. I could give it a shot. One other thing I noticed is when I get a drive formatted, mounted, and ready to go, there's 40GB less than on my Centos machine. One each drive. 6 drives. A lot of space gone. Did I make a wrong setting? Perhaps the 40G is used for ZFS snapshots but can't be disabled in UFS? I really would like to recover the space, or I might need to go back to Centos.