Sharing drives and conclusion
In order to share the drive on a Windows network the relevant details must be filled in under the ‘CIFS’ section, as detailed below. Replace ’MSHOME’ with your network name for this to work. As mentioned before the wealth of options provided by FreeNAS mean options here should be explored independently.
Click the ‘Save and Restart’ button at the button of the page to apply the changes. Now click on the ‘Shares’ tab and set up the information users will see when they explore the network.
The share on the server is now visible on the network.
FreeNAS is an excellent use of old hardware, and a cheap alternative to NAS devices, if you are willing to get your hands dirty. There is a wealth of options to cater for access by users with different operating systems. There are even options to sync files and folders between the server and client computers using RSync. While the above example illustrates the process can be awkward and slightly counter intuitive it is well worth exploring to have the flexibility of a cheap and cheerful NAS server at your fingertips.
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Freenas was released nearly 2 years ago,and I signed right up at the initial release, after many many many frustrations, losing 2 raid setups I have scrapped it, and after all that time one would think it would be stable, quite the contrary, each release brings new bugs and more problems. Freebsd is not the problem, it's the freenas frontend that makes things unstable.
I think the freenas website speaks for itself in terms of the people with problems, bugs and unaswered and RUDE responses from some of the freenas team.