TFTP Cisco Devices

[pamiller3]

Hello all,

I have just installed FreeNAS recently and so far I have found it to fulfill every file server need. I started to tinker with the TFTP functions and I enabled it with all the defaults, but I cannot tftp simple config files from my cisco network equipment. I am a little shady on the user (/nobody) and possibly where it is storing the config files (/tftproot).

I do apologize for the noobness of my delima but any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[louisk]

You probably want to change the tftproot to be somewhere on your shared volume, for example: /mnt/tank/tftproot
It's been a while since I tinkered with tftp, but I seem to recall it needing world write permission on the directory, so you should probably set that as well.

 

[pamiller3]

Alight I made a new RAID for the TFTP (simple 5gb HDD setup) and then changed the permissions on that volume to nobody and group of nobody. Still didn't work, am I missing something?

 

[louisk]

Did you set the write permissions to everybody?

http://onlamp.com/bsd/2003/06/05/FreeBSD_Basics.html

See the section on "Serving files with tftpd"

 

[pamiller3]

Alright I looked over the link, it seems to be mainly for freeBSD not freeNAS, I tried to make the /tftproot directory but in the root it is a read only even as a superuser. Is there any other suggestions?

 

[ProtoSD]

Alright I looked over the link, it seems to be mainly for freeBSD not freeNAS, I tried to make the /tftproot directory but in the root it is a read only even as a superuser. Is there any other suggestions?

FreeNAS is build on top of FreeBSD, so just about anything that pertains to FreeBSD also pertains to FreeNAS. The problem with creating the tftproot on "/" is that "/" is on your flash drive and is read-only. You need to make tftproot in a folder on your volume, then you can set permissions and it should work ok.

So like @louisk suggested:

You probably want to change the tftproot to be somewhere on your shared volume, for example: /mnt/tank/tftproot

 

[pamiller3]

Wow I knew it was something stupid as this who server is a very simple setup. Thanks for pointing it out tho.

I really appreciate the help and as soon as I get this finely tweaked I plan to setup a FTP server and I will probably be back.

 

[peterh]

In addition to other advices ( have tftpdirectory on a disk volume )
cisco gear expects the file to be there already.
So, for the first time create a file , say 'cisco-confg' by the command 'touch /<whatever</cisco-confg', then
make shure it's writeble by tftp user. Now you should be able to save your cisco config!