Help with setting up password protected shares

[johnblanker]

Is there a video or something explaining how to set up a share with password protection?

I really don't understand the user account stuff. For sharing cifs shares with my windows pc, that is working great. But I want to share a volume that users need to put in a password to access.

Trying to access this on windows and it prompts me for my the username and password. Should it say my domain on that prompt? I tired putting in my user name of the user I created in freenas but no good.

 

[cyberjock]

Nope. There isn't because it's not something that you can cookbook from other examples. It's important that you understand the theory so you can apply it for your exact situation. :/

As for if it should say my domain, that depends on your setup. That's something you should know based on your setup.. maybe and maybe not.

 

[Dalance]

You could use individual folders for users and a main folder only accessed by the administrator/owner. Y ou could then transfer (shared) stuff to the shared file. Another thing you could do is allow only certain IP's to access any given folder. Just thoughts, I am a noob trying to learn something about this system myself on a daily basis.