baodad
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Just finished setting up my first FreeNAS server on an Intel 1U rack server. Things seem to be going well. I have four drives split into two mirrored sets. I have created a Windows shared dataset and a windows share. I was able to successfully connect to and mount the share from my Windows 10 machine. This is a home network without a domain.
I began to transfer files from my hard drive to the FreeNAS share. I created a folder on the share called "Big Disk" (without the quotes), and then proceeded to robocopy everything from the drive to the share. It worked great. The files are all there. Except I can't see the "Big Disk" folder from Windows.
The FreeNAS path to this folder would be \\freenas\share\Big Disk. There are a lot of subdirectories and files below that that I robocopied over. I can browse to the folder from Windows explorer by manually typing the path Z:\Big Disk. When I do that, I can see all my files and subfolders just fine. I can also create and modify files as well. My only problem is that I cannot see the top-level folder "Big Disk"
To simplify access to and authentication with the share, I have created a user in FreeNAS that corresponds (username and password) to my Windows user that I am accessing the share from. In FreeNAS I checked the "Microsoft Account" checkbox for this user. I have tried making this (Windows/Microsoft) user the owner of the dataset. There is also a usergroup with ownership, and I have made sure my Windows user account belongs to that FreeNAS usergroup.
I have tried the windows utility takeown to try to take ownership of the "Big Disk" folder. But I get ERROR: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on the file (or folder) "Z:\Big Disk". I haven't had any luck with icacls either.
From Windows Explorer, I can check the security of the root of the share itself. Windows shows the share ownership belonging to freenas\<my Windows username>, but I'm not sure that this user account is the same as my corresponding local Windows account of the same name, i.e. they probably don't have the same SID? Perhaps if I could sync the SIDs my problem would resolve, or at least I could get access to see this invisible top-level folder...
I've tried to do my homework. Any troubleshooting tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
I began to transfer files from my hard drive to the FreeNAS share. I created a folder on the share called "Big Disk" (without the quotes), and then proceeded to robocopy everything from the drive to the share. It worked great. The files are all there. Except I can't see the "Big Disk" folder from Windows.
The FreeNAS path to this folder would be \\freenas\share\Big Disk. There are a lot of subdirectories and files below that that I robocopied over. I can browse to the folder from Windows explorer by manually typing the path Z:\Big Disk. When I do that, I can see all my files and subfolders just fine. I can also create and modify files as well. My only problem is that I cannot see the top-level folder "Big Disk"
To simplify access to and authentication with the share, I have created a user in FreeNAS that corresponds (username and password) to my Windows user that I am accessing the share from. In FreeNAS I checked the "Microsoft Account" checkbox for this user. I have tried making this (Windows/Microsoft) user the owner of the dataset. There is also a usergroup with ownership, and I have made sure my Windows user account belongs to that FreeNAS usergroup.
I have tried the windows utility takeown to try to take ownership of the "Big Disk" folder. But I get ERROR: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on the file (or folder) "Z:\Big Disk". I haven't had any luck with icacls either.
From Windows Explorer, I can check the security of the root of the share itself. Windows shows the share ownership belonging to freenas\<my Windows username>, but I'm not sure that this user account is the same as my corresponding local Windows account of the same name, i.e. they probably don't have the same SID? Perhaps if I could sync the SIDs my problem would resolve, or at least I could get access to see this invisible top-level folder...
I've tried to do my homework. Any troubleshooting tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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