The title above is the phrase I used to search the forum for threads on this, but I came up without a definitive answer.
I have two FreeNAS servers both set up pretty much off the shelf with almost no customization and no add-ons. I added DNS servers under NETWORK-Global Configuration because I assumed the information was needed so that FreeNAS would send me status and warning emails.
Last night my internet service died, and moments later I tried to watch a movie using an Android/Kodi media player that was configured to use SMB shares from my servers. Nothing worked, the media player could not find the servers, either one of them. I tried three other similar media players on the network, same result. I turned on NFS on one of the FreeNAS servers and I could easily then add NFS shares to the Kodi boxes. But SMB was dead and gone.
After a few hours the internet service was restored, and SMB again worked perfectly. So, why did this happen? The only threads I found on this suggested it was a DNS problem, and someone suggested removing the DNS entries in FreeNAS. How can it then send out email? And why would a DNS entry in FreeNAS affect the ability of an external machine to see the SMB shares anyway?
I really hope someone has some insight on this, because apparently it has happened to quite a few users. I have a friend who runs a FreeBSD server, he says he used to see this problem but it went away after he upgraded to FreeBSD 10.3. Is this a bug in FreeNAS?
I have two FreeNAS servers both set up pretty much off the shelf with almost no customization and no add-ons. I added DNS servers under NETWORK-Global Configuration because I assumed the information was needed so that FreeNAS would send me status and warning emails.
Last night my internet service died, and moments later I tried to watch a movie using an Android/Kodi media player that was configured to use SMB shares from my servers. Nothing worked, the media player could not find the servers, either one of them. I tried three other similar media players on the network, same result. I turned on NFS on one of the FreeNAS servers and I could easily then add NFS shares to the Kodi boxes. But SMB was dead and gone.
After a few hours the internet service was restored, and SMB again worked perfectly. So, why did this happen? The only threads I found on this suggested it was a DNS problem, and someone suggested removing the DNS entries in FreeNAS. How can it then send out email? And why would a DNS entry in FreeNAS affect the ability of an external machine to see the SMB shares anyway?
I really hope someone has some insight on this, because apparently it has happened to quite a few users. I have a friend who runs a FreeBSD server, he says he used to see this problem but it went away after he upgraded to FreeBSD 10.3. Is this a bug in FreeNAS?