Synology and FreeNAS Not Playing Nice?

[MrTPN]

Hi folks,

Let me pretense this post by saying, I think this is a Synology issue and not a FreeNas One.

However, as we are migrating away from Synology and onto a FreeNAS box I wanted to see if the community could help me out :)

I have built my FreeNas Box and everything looks great, I can even connect to the SMB Shares on my clients no problem.

However, when I try to mount the remote folder on my Synology I get the following error:

Code:

"Failed to connect to the remote folder. Please make sure the remote server is accessible via CIFS protocol."

This is what the remote mount folder dialogue looks like:



As I said, I can mount this just fine on my client devices (Windows, Mac) no problem....but on the synology, it throws a wobbly.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Chris Moore]

As I said, I can mount this just fine on my client devices (Windows, Mac) no problem.

You are using the same login name and password to mount the same share elsewhere and it works, but on the Synology system it fails.
That is an interesting question.

 

[MrTPN]

You are using the same login name and password to mount the same share elsewhere and it works, but on the Synology system it fails.
That is an interesting question.

Yep! Same username and password works just fine on my clients. Just not the Synology and it’s puzzling me beyond belief.

It’s a fresh install, one pool setup and one share with a Single username and password. That share was assigned to said user account too

 

[sretalla]

Since the Synology is based on Linux, perhaps it would be a good start to try accessing the share from a Linux VM (you could try one of the very basic installs like debian).

I suspect NTLM version as the potential cause, but hard to say what Synology is doing as a client (but Linux may give us some clues).

 

[MrTPN]

Just wanted to follow up on this post with some more investigation....

So, i setup a NFS share on the FreeNAS box and then tried to connect this to my Synology box.

Surprisingly, this works just fine. So i then tried to connect to the CIFS share using MacOS and Windows.

Both failed, but connecting using SMB worked fine. I am currently running FreeNAS-11.2-BETA2.

At this point my assumption is that the SMB implementation on this build does not support CIFS, that or i missed a setting somewhere. I have reviewed Services and Share Options and do not see anything for CIFS.

Any further advise or help would be great :)
Thanks!

 

[toadman]

It could be a versions thing. I hope it doesn't literally mean CIFS. If yes (gulp), you'd need to drop the SMB server side way down to support the 1.0 protocol. I'm not even sure that is supported on FreeNAS.

On some linuxes I've had to specify SMB 2.1 in the mount for it to work as 3.0 wasn't working right. I'm not familiar with Synology, but you might look at how to specify a known working version in your mount command.