Password Nightmare

[matty]

Setting up the freenas for the first time. Followed tutorials off the net but keep coming up with a password problem. When I go to sign in to the drive on backup drive on the nas i use my ip address them it asks me for my credentials, and it says every time the password is wrong. Now I have deleted the user re-added the user and just going round in circles .

Can anyone just walk me through it so i can see what I am doing wrong.

Sorry if this as been asked before,

Many thanks

 

[stinger608]

I have encountered this same thing! At the console I type in option 7 to change password and no matter what I do nothing happens?

The courser doesn't move or type anything? I type in a password and hit enter and it asks to type in password once again. I type it in and hit enter and it states that password was successful. However, I go to one of my systems and type it in and it keeps giving me a wrong password and just sits there.
I open up a browser and type it in and the same thing happens.

 

[Samuel Tai]

The console 7 password only sets the root password for the GUI. For SMB sharing, root is disabled by default from sharing. You should create another account for sharing.

 

[stinger608]

The console 7 password only sets the root password for the GUI. For SMB sharing, root is disabled by default from sharing. You should create another account for sharing.

Right. If I go to the GUI and type the password in, it still gives me the wrong password notice though.

 

[Samuel Tai]

Are you using root as the login in the GUI? Are you using spaces in the password? Remember, you have to use Unix password conventions, and passwords are case-sensitive. Also avoid shell special characters, like #$[]\/'"&^@!`*;?. The only special characters I've found safe to use are ()+-.

 

[stinger608]

Nope, no special characters. I guess I am trying to use the root to login to the GUI.......
No other way to get to the user interface?

 

[Samuel Tai]

You have to explicitly type in root as the username, and then the password in the GUI.