Mounting a windows share in FreeNAS

[Samwarez]

I just set up a new FreeNAS server and I need to setup some sort of external backup. I understand that plugging in a USB external drive directly is frowned upon, so instead I have a windows machine sharing a drive on the network, I hope mount that share in FreeNAS and then just schedule a regular rsync to the mountpoint. I can access and mount the share on other windows machines so I know my credentials are right.

My problem is in the mounting for the share in FreeNAS.

I tried:

Code:

sudo mount_smbfs -I <WIN_IP> -N //<WIN_User>@<WIN_HostName>/NAS_Backup /mnt/NAS_Backup

result:

Code:

mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error

My ~/.nsmbrc

Code:

[<WIN_HostName>:<WIN_User>]
password=<WIN_Password>

Following some guides I also tried:

Code:

mount -t cifs //<WIN_IP>/NAS_Backup /mnt/NAS_Backup -o username=<WIN_User>,password=<WIN_Password>

But all I get is:

Code:

usage: mount [-adflpruvw] [-F fstab] [-o options] [-t ufs | external_type]
       mount [-dfpruvw] special | node
       mount [-dfpruvw] [-o options] [-t ufs | external_type] special node

I guess my syntax is wrong somewhere?

Trying to troubleshoot I tried:

Code:

smbclient -L //<WIN_IP>/NAS_Backup -U<WIN_User>
Enter <WIN_User>'s password:
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows 7 Enterprise 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows 7 Enterprise 6.1]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
Connection to <WIN_IP> failed (Error NT_STATUS_RESOURCE_NAME_NOT_FOUND)
NetBIOS over TCP disabled -- no workgroup available

I am not sure what to make of this, NetBIOS over TCP is enabled on the windows machine.

Thank you for any insight you can provide.

 

[Samwarez]

Would I be better off just using FTP to the windows box?

 

[anodos]

I think you're approaching this backwards. You can use deltacopy on a windows box to pull the data over.

Alternatively, I just run a powershell script to pull data from my CIFS shares. I have attached an example of such a script below:

Code:

# Volume Name of External Hard Drive
$VolumeName = 'OFFSITE02'

# Make sure you have enough space on the Hard Drive for the shares you're backing up
# This is an array. Separate shares by commas and enclose each share name with quotation marks
$SharesToBackup = "Requests","Shared","EA","Cat photos"
$ServerName = 'storage'

# Make sure you put in a valid log path
$LogPath = "\\storage\it\logs\OFFSITE02"

# Messy way of getting the volume's drive letter
$disk = Get-WmiObject -query "SELECT * from win32_logicaldisk where VolumeName = '$VolumeName'"
$DriveLetter = $disk.DeviceID

# Loop robocopy command 
foreach ($ShareName in $SharesToBackup){
    $SourcePath = "\\$ServerName\$ShareName"
    $LogFile = "$LogPath\$ServerName.$ShareName.$(get-date -f yyyy-MM-dd).log" #don't modify this variable

   
    # Test if disk is actually connected.
    if ($disk.DeviceID -eq $null){
        msg * "RoboBackup task not for $ShareName run - $VolumeName is not connected to the computer"
        break
    }

    else { 
        robocopy "$SourcePath" $DriveLetter\"$ShareName" /MIR /COPY:DT /Z /W:5 /R:15 /FFT /XF ntuser.* *.dat *.db *.tmp /LOG:$LogFile
    }
   
}
msg * "RoboBackup task complete"

 

[Samwarez]

It never occurred to me to pull the data that way, thank you. I will give it a shot