FreeNas

Let me start by staying I am a total noob at this. A fellow NBR member introduced me to Freenas, and I liked it until today. So here is my problem.

Two days ago I set up two 360Gb drives as mirror and UFS. They were working great and I could access them from both my PC and Mac. Today I tried to add a third drive to be independent of that volume. So two volumes: 1 mirror and 1 stand alone.

I don't know what happened after that. Once the system booted up, one of the two mirrored drives was degraded. Though after an hour or two it re-synced and all was well. So at the active volume window it shows 2 active volumes just as I had wanted. The problem is when I try to share them. When I go to CIFS share or AFP share it doesn't show either of them in the path section. I can't figure out why. I tried formatting my usb and reinstalling freenas. Exporting volume and destroying data. Ive been at it for about 5 hours with no luck. Is there anything I can type in the shell to completly wipe everything out and start fresh?

Any advice?

Thanks!

EDIT:
It seems to be working now, but when I access it from my home PC, it doesn't specifiy which volume I'm looking at. It just says "folder is empty." If I right click it, it's the size of the stand alone drive. How can I access both the stand alone drive and the mirrored drives? Is that possible?

I created two CIFS shares, one for each volume, both with guest access.

Any Ideas?

 

Do they have different Volume Names?

I have not use freeNAS for ages, since I have commercial units.

 

Yes, they have different names.

I'm so new at this, I'm not even sure if it's possible.

 

One thing I diss liked about the FreeNAS is when you have a HD failure. Early on it was very difficult to recover from. So before you start using the shares fully test and document the recovery process. Do this with a couple of time to make user it works. I do this with any/all NAS. If the recovery process does not work there useless.

Since the server is on one IP use IP/volume to access the share. Then save a shortcut of the volume for quick access.

 

Everything seems peachy with the freenas end of things now. I don't know why. I didn't touch anything, it just works for some reason.

 

That's actually even worse. The most important thing about networking setups is not the speed/throughput but reliability and stability.
You haven't solved the issue so it may as well reappear any day.

 

I agree. I don't know how to resolve it or even attempt to. I joined a freenas forum, but the feedback is slow if any over there. I'm kind of in a losing battle with it.