Iam relatively new to FreeNAS and not an IT professional. I installed FreeNAS 11.2 U5 and I am trying to configure user accounts and groups. I have 2 problems, which I think are related (but may not)
1- I can login into the GUI from my Mac laptop with the root password I set during installation. However, I cannot access shares as root. Basically when I do: Go-->Connect to Server-->192.xxx.x.xx (the IP address I get from the FreeNAS console) and try to login as root, it does not let me. From this same laptop, I can access shares as a user I created.
2- "Enable password login" is set to "Yes" for root. The FreeNAS user guide (pg 69) says: "for security reasons, password logins are disabled for the root account and changing this setting is highly discouraged". I can't remember if I changed this setting myself. In any case, if I change it back to "No", will I be able to ever log in the GUI from a browser, and be stuck forever?
Am I talking about 2 different things? In other words, "root password login" for the GUI to administering the system, "root login to access shares", are they different things? When I enable or disable root password login in the root account, what am I doing?
Sorry if this a very noob questions. Thanks everybody for any help!!
1- I can login into the GUI from my Mac laptop with the root password I set during installation. However, I cannot access shares as root. Basically when I do: Go-->Connect to Server-->192.xxx.x.xx (the IP address I get from the FreeNAS console) and try to login as root, it does not let me. From this same laptop, I can access shares as a user I created.
2- "Enable password login" is set to "Yes" for root. The FreeNAS user guide (pg 69) says: "for security reasons, password logins are disabled for the root account and changing this setting is highly discouraged". I can't remember if I changed this setting myself. In any case, if I change it back to "No", will I be able to ever log in the GUI from a browser, and be stuck forever?
Am I talking about 2 different things? In other words, "root password login" for the GUI to administering the system, "root login to access shares", are they different things? When I enable or disable root password login in the root account, what am I doing?
Sorry if this a very noob questions. Thanks everybody for any help!!