networkengineer
Cadet
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2011
- Messages
- 6
hi all,
first of all, an apology, I could not find the relevant information using search.
Problem: I am unable to access the CIFS shares using a Windows 7 machines, and unfortunately, both the laptops at home are Windows 7 OEM. The problem is only CIFS/Windows 7, I tried to access the data using FTP and it works just fine! Any ideas?
My setup: Running FreeNAS 8 (FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-amd64 (8288)) over VMWare, data store is on an external USB HDD. The disk itself is from a previous freeNAS installation, and IIRC is UFS (not ZFS). I have done all that I understood to be essential:
- imported the volume
- changed the volume permissions and groups (taken ownership of all data on the disk)
- configured CIFS service
- created the CIFS share
- started the CIFS service
- both machines are part of the same workgroup
- guest access is allowed
However, I am still unable to access the service from my Windows 7 machine, no matter what username/password combination is being used. I am currently using the IP address format, i.e. \\192.168.2.3\datastore. I read a few hints that there might be problems with windows authentication.
Could somebody please point me in the right direction please?
Thanks in advance for any help!
first of all, an apology, I could not find the relevant information using search.
Problem: I am unable to access the CIFS shares using a Windows 7 machines, and unfortunately, both the laptops at home are Windows 7 OEM. The problem is only CIFS/Windows 7, I tried to access the data using FTP and it works just fine! Any ideas?
My setup: Running FreeNAS 8 (FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-amd64 (8288)) over VMWare, data store is on an external USB HDD. The disk itself is from a previous freeNAS installation, and IIRC is UFS (not ZFS). I have done all that I understood to be essential:
- imported the volume
- changed the volume permissions and groups (taken ownership of all data on the disk)
- configured CIFS service
- created the CIFS share
- started the CIFS service
- both machines are part of the same workgroup
- guest access is allowed
However, I am still unable to access the service from my Windows 7 machine, no matter what username/password combination is being used. I am currently using the IP address format, i.e. \\192.168.2.3\datastore. I read a few hints that there might be problems with windows authentication.
Could somebody please point me in the right direction please?
Thanks in advance for any help!