Mount external NFS and share

[Pelle Hanses]

Hi,
I wonder if it is possible to mount an NFS share in FreeNAS and then use this "disk" to make a new NFS share?

We have a big storage server that is running FreeNAS. That server have a connection to one Active Directory and acts as file server for users files and acts as storage for all our virtual machines. Now I need a simple file server on another domain (another Active Directory) and want to use FreeNAS because it is stable and simple. I will not set up a new physical FreeNAS machine for this, I will use the disks on the big FreeNAS.

/Pelle

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to find an answer for this?

 

[toadman]

I couldn't tell exactly what you were trying to do. (I'm not that familiar with Active Directory as I don't use it.) The first sentence suggests you want to mount an NFS share on some server X from FreeNAS (which would be the client), then share that directory out from FreeNAS (which is not the server, effectively "resharing" the folder from server X). Is that right? I think I remember reading about someone trying this and discussing on the forums.

The second paragraph seems to imply you want to join the single Freenas server to two domain controllers. Is that right? (If so, I have no idea if this is possible or not.)

I'm definitely interested to see if you figured this one out. Sorry I couldn't be of any help.

 

[Pelle Hanses]

I have not been able to find an answer to my problem. I will explain alittle bit more.
Here is what I'm trying to do:
StorageServer01 (FreeNAS) have all our hard drives and distruibute a local folder as an NFS share, ex Users01.
StorageServer02 (FreeNAS) will mount that sharem Users01.
StorageServer02 (FreeNAS) will then distribute this as an CIFS share.
Thats all.

The Active Directory are not the problem here (if it is not possible to use two Active Directories connections on one FreeNAS).
When I trie this and mount the NFS share on StorageServer02 I do not see it in the GUI when I try to share it.

/Pelle