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How to connect external network disks in FreeNAS
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A NAS is typically the source of the disks, not the consumer of iSCSI or whatever from other boxes. There are no GUI options for that in FreeNAS. If you can traverse your way through the CLI to attach to an iSCSI target, maybe that can happen, but you're probably using the product in a way it wasn't designed.
Attach more disks directly (including external SAS enclosures using the LSI HBAs with the "e" variant... external ports) to get more capacity on the same box.
Attach more disks directly (including external SAS enclosures using the LSI HBAs with the "e" variant... external ports) to get more capacity on the same box.
How can I do that? sorry i'm new in this
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Second, please describe what you are trying to achive. "More sharing capacity" is quite ambiguous given that you asked how more storage would help ...
First, please describe your current system. This will determine what upgrade paths are possible. Also, please study these links:
Hardware Recommendations Guide
This is the latest edition of the FreeNAS Community hardware recommendations guide. The current major version is R2, dated January 2021, with the last minor update on 2021-01-24. The format has moved away from the forum post form factor, to...The path to success for block storage
It seems like I haven't written a sticky for awhile, but just in the last week I've had to cover this topic several times. ZFS does two different things very well. One is storage of large sequentially-written files, such as archives, logs, or data files, where the file does not have the middle...Path to Success for Structuring Datasets in Your Pool
Path to Success for Structuring Datasets in Your Pool So you've got a shiny new FreeNAS server, just begging to have you create a pool and start loading it up. Assuming you've read @jgreco's The path to success for block storage sticky, you've decided on the composition of your pool (RAIDZx vs...
I have two network disks that I want to synchronize with FreeNAS.
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What is a network disk? Over which protocol are these disks reachable? What do you mean by "synchronize"? Copy the data once? Have a one-way ("backup") copy that is updated from time to time? Have a two-way synchronisation?
You still have not answered what you mean by "increase sharing capacity".
Lots of things still missing to give any answer.
You still have not answered what you mean by "increase sharing capacity".
Lots of things still missing to give any answer.
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I want to Share folder with users
Sorry it's my first time here on the forum
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You've confused everyone here. First, you asked how to do this: FreeNAS <- network folder. Now you say you want to do this: FreeNAS -> network folder.
I see English is probably not your native language. Are you actually trying to do this: network folder -> FreeNAS -> network folder? In this case, why inject FreeNAS into this? The clients can mount the folder from the other system directly.
I see English is probably not your native language. Are you actually trying to do this: network folder -> FreeNAS -> network folder? In this case, why inject FreeNAS into this? The clients can mount the folder from the other system directly.
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Please describe your use case in detail.
- How many desktop systems and what operating systems?
- What network disks, brand and model please?
- is this all a single LAN?
- do you already have a FreeNAS?
- how precisely (components and FreeNAS version) is that set up?
- How do your desktops access those network disks? IPv4 is not a file sharing protocol ...
- What do you mean by "share folder with users"? Share new folders on the new FreeNAS with users?
- If yes, then what about those network disks and the "increase capacity" ...
Nobody expects a detailled technical analysis but please for chrissake ... describe what you are trying to *DO*.
Like:
I want to create a shared folder on my new FreeNAS system to be accessed by Windows desktop systems.
I want to copy over some data I have on two network disks type Western Digital bla 0815
...
Good grief.
- How many desktop systems and what operating systems?
- What network disks, brand and model please?
- is this all a single LAN?
- do you already have a FreeNAS?
- how precisely (components and FreeNAS version) is that set up?
- How do your desktops access those network disks? IPv4 is not a file sharing protocol ...
- What do you mean by "share folder with users"? Share new folders on the new FreeNAS with users?
- If yes, then what about those network disks and the "increase capacity" ...
Nobody expects a detailled technical analysis but please for chrissake ... describe what you are trying to *DO*.
Like:
I want to create a shared folder on my new FreeNAS system to be accessed by Windows desktop systems.
I want to copy over some data I have on two network disks type Western Digital bla 0815
...
Good grief.
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None of this makes sense. Apart from the Ctera disks. What sort of clients access these disks with which mechanism? Is the FreeNAS in the same VLAN? What does "shares made with LDAP" even mean? What does "manage in a location directly" mean?
Where does FreeNAS come into play at all?
Where does FreeNAS come into play at all?
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We still don't understand what you're trying to accomplish. If it would be easier for you, try posting on the Portuguese forum: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/forums/portuguese-português.44/
hope to solve the problem.
