So happy now...

[bellasys]

Now that I'm done being pissed about wasting all my time with nas4free! I mean, after like 3 days going round and round trying to access my shares, and they never worked! I did that change thinking I was upgrading after reading that the FreeNAS project "moved".

Got sick of the problem and I set up my entire system in under 10 minutes (again) with FreeNAS.

Not sure what happened, but anyway I'm glad to be back up and running. I would of course like to know WTF, but hey, I'm just happy I'm up and running again.

Have 1 MacBookPro, 1 XP box, 1 Vista Laptop, 1 Win7 desktop, 1 CentOS linux Server, and 1 PyDev machine (fedora) working under the same FreeNAS install, using both CIFS and NFS shares at this time.

 

[cyberjock]

Welcome. I've never used NAS4Free but I've heard its "less polished" than FreeNAS but also has lower system requirements. So yeah.. /shrug.

 

[bellasys]

cool thanks for the welcome...

quick update, I guess running NFS with the CIFS hosed my setup. I will have to research how to isolate a physical hard drive for use with Linux development environments while running my other systems on the shared resource... the Linux box can of course view the CIFS shares already, but I want to isolate a data array for use exclusively with that machine... (that's not a question, I'm just sayin)

 

[bollar]

If you're using zfs, you can create a new dataset for your linux box and only give NFS access to that new dataset. http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes#Creating_ZFS_Datasets

You should probably make the original dataset cifs only.

 

[bellasys]

I will cz that thanks! (yes OG dataset now CIFS only)

...and let me reiterate the love-feeling when after like 3 days of pulling my hair out with the other system I procured an entire server from burning ISO to deploying a first test file in <20 minutes! (I had the noob experience already, or it might have taken half an hour lol...)