New to FreeNAS. Need help urgently

[Craig SA]

I am a new user of FreeNAS. I want to setup a File Server for a small business(Maximum of 20 users). Need help setting up the system. These are my specs:

Build FreeNAS-11.0-U4 (54848d13b)
Platform Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 3946MB going up to 8Gb in the next two days
2 X 1TB SSDs in RAID 1

What I want to do is setup a Windows share. I would like each user to have their own folder which only they can access with a password . Please assist me in this regard.
Also I have no clue how to set the active directory. Do I need to use that?

 

[garm]

What have you read so far?

 

[Artion]

I am a new user of FreeNAS. I want to setup a File Server for a small business(Maximum of 20 users). Need help setting up the system. These are my specs:

Build FreeNAS-11.0-U4 (54848d13b)
Platform Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 3946MB going up to 8Gb in the next two days
2 X 1TB SSDs in RAID 1

What I want to do is setup a Windows share. I would like each user to have their own folder which only they can access with a password . Please assist me in this regard.
Also I have no clue how to set the active directory. Do I need to use that?

This can help ;)

 

[m0nkey_]

Build FreeNAS-11.0-U4 (54848d13b)
Platform Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 3946MB going up to 8Gb in the next two days
2 X 1TB SSDs in RAID 1

Good to know you're going up to 8GB. 8GB RAM is the absolute minimum for FreeNAS. Also just to correct your terminology, there is no RAID 1 in FreeNAS. It's called a mirrored VDEV.

Also, when using the word RAID, it usually indicates the use of hardware RAID. Please confirm how your pool is configured.

As for permissions, I have a video which you may find useful: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/freenas-and-samba-smb-permissions-video.8/

 

[jlentz3]

Does the i7 processor support ECC?


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[SweetAndLow]

Does the i7 processor support ECC?


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No

 

[Craig SA]

What have you read so far?

I've read up on Windows shares(SMB) but not sure how to implement it properly. For some reason only using 1 is working properly

 

[garm]

Check out this video from @m0nkey_

 

[Craig SA]

Good to know you're going up to 8GB. 8GB RAM is the absolute minimum for FreeNAS. Also just to correct your terminology, there is no RAID 1 in FreeNAS. It's called a mirrored VDEV.

Also, when using the word RAID, it usually indicates the use of hardware RAID. Please confirm how your pool is configured.

As for permissions, I have a video which you may find useful: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/freenas-and-samba-smb-permissions-video.8/

this is what it is like

Good to know you're going up to 8GB. 8GB RAM is the absolute minimum for FreeNAS. Also just to correct your terminology, there is no RAID 1 in FreeNAS. It's called a mirrored VDEV.

Also, when using the word RAID, it usually indicates the use of hardware RAID. Please confirm how your pool is configured.

As for permissions, I have a video which you may find useful: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/freenas-and-samba-smb-permissions-video.8/

I have a single dataset named Shared for now. I want it to hold all the information but in this folder each user must have thier own subfolder which only they can see and have full control over. The admin should also have access to everything.

example of the setup:

Shared contains:
Some files commonly needed to all in the company (eg. company letters etc.)
Folder1: (User 1 is the owner and has full access)
Folder2: (User 2 is the owner and has full access)
and so forth

 

[Artion]

Shared contains:
Some files commonly needed to all in the company (eg. company letters etc.)
Folder1: (User 1 is the owner and has full access)
Folder2: (User 2 is the owner and has full access)
and so forth

Are you using a domain controller in your network?

 

[Craig SA]

Are you using a domain controller in your network?

nope. I am trying a new approach now. Using FTP and File Zilla to get the data. So I have created datasets for each user. But now with this approach can I still have an admin account to be able to view what is going on in all the folders. Do you think this is a good idea

 

[Artion]

As for smb share: you can assign each user a home dir when you create them in FN, with exactly same username and password as in their Windows pc, so when they navigate to \\FN-IP with explorer they see their own share. If you want also a share they all can see just share a dataset that is owned by a group each user is part of.

As for the ftp approach: set the ftp settings so that permits local user login and you can also set that each user is redirected to its own home share by ticking 'Always chroot'

 

[Servman]

Hi @Craig SA,

If you are doing individual folders per user you can setup the Home share with in FreeNAS and map that folder to there PC and then each user will have full permission to that folder and then just allow the admin access to that folder?

it is up to you if you want to do it that way or stay with the current setup your wanted to do.

its easy to set up.

• create a User folder in your storage
• create the user and the home dir be the users folder
  
• go to Sharing Windows (SMB)
• create the windows share
• tick the Use as home share: (see screenshot)
• it will also create a home share

once this is done every time that user logs into the share it will create a separate share for that user an so.

hope this helps.

 

[Craig SA]

Thanks guys for the help. I have setup the share although the one problem I am having is that Windows Xp has a problem adding permissions to folders in the share. I didn't have this problem with Windows 8 and 10. Not sure what the problem is.

 

[styno]

Thanks guys for the help. I have setup the share although the one problem I am having is that Windows Xp has a problem adding permissions to folders in the share. I didn't have this problem with Windows 8 and 10. Not sure what the problem is.

For XP clients, you need to tell Samba to downgrade to SMB1 & NTLMv1, more info here: http://doc.freenas.org/11/services.html#smb

 

[wblock]

Although really, you should try very hard to replace Windows XP clients. Enabling NTLMv1 is bad for security.