recovering from a hardware failure.

[camilo suarez]

Hi, i got a freenas server and the mobo got burned,

it looks that the USB stick with the OS (i even have a backup) and the drive with the information are fine.
the freenas was configured with ZFS and encrypted.

how can i recover this information? i cant find the same board because its very old.

 

[cyberjock]

Take the hard drives and USB stick to your "new machine" and plug them in. Boot them up and find out what happens. Your IP may change and you may need to resetup small things like network settings but if your SATA controller is compatible with the new hardware it should just continue where it left off.

 

[camilo suarez]

hi, i bought a new machine for my server and now freenas doesnt detect any Network interface, when i press 1 to configure the network interface nothing appears there.

i bought a Intel DB85FL board and a pentium g3220. what can i do to be able to set up the ip?

 

[cyberjock]

Sounds like your NIC isn't supported, isn't enabled, or isn't plugged in? I tried to google your motherboard and that is not a server-grade board. Also despite being an Intel board I couldn't find any documentation that said it was an Intel NIC. I only did 5 minutes worth of searching though.

 

[camilo suarez]

researching this is the NIC chipset

http://ark.intel.com/products/70831/Intel-Ethernet-Connection-I217-V

ive read that the drivers have been added in a release of freenas from last year. is there a way to add the drivers to my current Freenas version?, or can i update the freenas version to the last one? im not sure what version im currently running, but its from like 2 years ago.

if i go to the update path ive read that when the hardrive its encrypted when you upgrade freenas you have to enter the passphrase again to unlock it. but i cant remember right now that passphrase. so i dont know what to do :(

 

[cyberjock]

If you don't know the passphrase you should start copying your data off your pool RIGHT NOW. If your server reboots or loses power your data is gone forever.

 

[camilo suarez]

well, then theres something wrong or its not encripted, the server have had several reboots and the information was still accessible.

im kind of lost of how was this server setup because it was setup by a third company and they only gave me the administrator password and username for the GUI.

 

[joeschmuck]

If you purchased this from a third party, contact them to fix it. I'd like to know the name of that company as well as to offer a warning to others who purchase from them.

 

[camilo suarez]

its a small company in colombia, called Nasware,

well i installed the last release in a new usb drive and now it works, i started to autoimport the volume and its now working, i wonder how long does it take to autoimport the volume?

reading this document http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes

if the volume appears like the figure 6.3b its because it wasnt encrypted?

 

[camilo suarez]

well i recovered my volumes, the drives where not encrypted, i have to reconfigure again everything, but now my CIFS shares are not asking for password when i try to open them via file explorer and i want that when i open the shares it ask for the user and passwords that i have created, and i dont know how to configure that.

 

[joeschmuck]

Glad you got your data back.

 

[camilo suarez]

thanks!, any help about how to configure freenas to ask for a password when opening the shares in windows? ive read alot of the documentation but it doesnt tell anything about it.

 

[danb35]

Uncheck the "Allow guest access" checkbox in the share configuration.

 

[camilo suarez]

its already unchecked :( heres a screenshot of the config

 

[cyberjock]

I knew that was going to be your screenshot.

There's no answer for your question. The reason why is that there's so many factors that play into the behavior of shares that it's something you have to *understand* and apply for your server. How your CIFS settings are set up, how your server's file permissions are set up, what account(s) your desktop(especially Windows) has cached, and how your shares are setup are extremely important. Making it work how you want takes coordinating those 4 things(at least.. there's probably more but I just woke up) and it's not something that is easy to just throw an answer out there and have it be the correct one.

I will tell you that *mine* do exactly what you are asking to do, unless the user account I'm logged in has proper permissions in which case it authenticates on its own and "just works".

 

[camilo suarez]

Here are the Volume permissions; the "usuarios" group is the group that i created with the users that i want to have access to the files. What other screenshot do you need? to know what i haven’t set up properly. thanks for your help

 

[anodos]

Here are the Volume permissions; the "usuarios" group is the group that i created with the users that i want to have access to the files. What other screenshot do you need? to know what i haven’t set up properly. thanks for your help

A few quick pointers on this matter:

1) You're sharing your entire zvol (/mnt/DATOS). Don't do that (you will most likely end up breaking your CIFS config). Create a dataset to be shared.
2) Your permissions are wrong (in the big picture you want your user and group permissions under CIFs to be, well, permissive. CIFs has other ways of handling access controls.).
After you create a dataset, change permissions and set it to "Windows/MAC". Permissions will be grayed-out once you have done that.
3) Once you have created the dataset and set it's permissions, follow the steps here to create your share(s).
4) Once you verify that you can access the shares, use Windows Explorer (file manager) to navigate to your FreeNAS (i.e. \\ServerName). Right-click on your share, click on "properties", thence click on the "Security Tab". Then configure ACLs for your share. See this article for an explanation of Windows permissions.

CIFs is complicated and FreeNAS is complicated. Be prepared to read lots of materials. I recommend starting here: http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Quick_Start_Guide and then proceeding on to reading the whole manual. Several times.

 

[camilo suarez]

thanks! great points. ill check them out.