I am using FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE-p1x64. I am trying to achieve the following: I want to share a drive on the FreeNAS system with Windows computers thus both system seeing the drive and can read/write it. I have another drive that I want to share similarly but limit it to read-only. How would you go about setting this up?
I have played around with CIFS and iSCSI and this is what I have found.
CIFS Option: I know I can achieve this by using CIFS share but that's not so clean as Windows 7's security blocks running programs from network mapped drive and requires me to always type the full network path to be able to run the program (at least the installation program).
iSCSI Option: I tried to set that up with FreeNAS and here is what I have found:
1) A disk that's been mounted cannot be setup as a Target in iSCSI. Is this always true or is there a way to get around it?
2) A iSCSI target cannot be mounted. Is this always true or is there a way to get around it?
3) How do I Target folder from a mounted disk?
I have played around with CIFS and iSCSI and this is what I have found.
CIFS Option: I know I can achieve this by using CIFS share but that's not so clean as Windows 7's security blocks running programs from network mapped drive and requires me to always type the full network path to be able to run the program (at least the installation program).
iSCSI Option: I tried to set that up with FreeNAS and here is what I have found:
1) A disk that's been mounted cannot be setup as a Target in iSCSI. Is this always true or is there a way to get around it?
2) A iSCSI target cannot be mounted. Is this always true or is there a way to get around it?
3) How do I Target folder from a mounted disk?