Setup Samba Shares With FreeNAS – A 5 Minute Tutorial
March 4th, 2009
FrugalTech has written a 5 minute tutorial on how to setup Samba with FreeNAS.
After reading some tweets between Beq and Freenas (me) on Twitter recently, he thought it would be a great idea to write a quick tutorial on setting up a basic Samba (CIFS/SMB) tutorial for anonymous access.
The tutorial covers:
- Bootup and Install
- Adding the Disk
- Format The Disk
- Mount the Disk
- Setup Samba (CIFS/SMB) Services
- Setup Samba (CIFS/SMB) Shares
Categories: Tips
I am in a jam though with the smb/cifs right now. I put in this freenas server at the office and as anonymous it works great, but when I try to do local user and restrict folders I am stuck. I have read everything and tried all I know to, but several problems continue. I setup my sharename as fileserver and mnt points correctly to that name. I can access the server and see the shares but so can everyone else, even when restricted access is given. Also if you copy a file to one folder it copies to the others as well. I simply need to be able to setup a public folder for all and several private folders for accounting and management as well as private individual folders for different users…can you suggest a solution ?
Rick,
The problem is that FreeNAS doesn’t support individual share permissions yet. If a user has access to the FreeNAS they have access to ALL the shares on the FreeNAS.
This is a major draw back in FreeNAS and should be addressed in version 0.7
I hope this helps,
Gary
@Rick
This may help. Though I’ve not tested it yet. I’m playing with it now. You may also require these too…
YouTube – Linux File Permissions Explained (part 1)
YouTube – Linux File Permissions Explained (part 2)
Linux File Permissions