freenas error code 80004005 (I was unable to connect to the share) plus a couple other issues.
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Background : I run Win7 x64 Ultimate, private network, running my own NTP on my win7 machine because I don't want to put my nas on the internet and it never wants to stay in synch with my laptop.
Hardware for freenas is:
1 Gigabyte (GA-H87TN) (ultrathin miniITX)
1 Intel Core i5-4460 LGA 1150 CPU (BX80646I54460)
1 Plextor M6M 128GB mSATA SSD (PX-128M6M)
12 Samsung Spinpoint (ST2000LM003) (2TB 2.5inch HDDs)
1 Protronix 8-Port PCI Express SataIII controller
2x8GB Corsair Vengeance (CMSX16GX3M2B1600C9) DDR3L 12800 Laptop memory
(thats 24 TB NAS in a 1.3x15x11 inch form factor! and average power consumption of 30watts. Peak power is 67watts so far.)
The freenas is a stand alone pc with wired network card going via crossover cable into my second pc (my laptop). The link between the two is a private IP scheme without DHCP. The laptop has a separate wifi link to the internet and is not sharing it.
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I ran through the video tutorial to build my nas and share. I used the online video that demos 'freenasiscool' for ver 9.3, ultimately setting up a 12 drive raidz, making a volume, making a dataset, making a share.
I was unable to connect to the nas via the setup cifs share, even when only setting force guest. Seaching online help for 3 days led to no progress. Finally I found someone who pointed out that you can force windows to select "alternate credentials" when using the map network drive wizard! I know how to setup user credentials in windows, and despite setting up in freenas that the user was a windows account, my win7 pc would always attempt to authenticate as a generic credential; see windows credential manager. I had setup and check this more than 50 times. Ironically, despite configuring and logging is as the same user over and over again I had to use the wizard where I could check the box that says "use alternate credentials" with my credentials input as "10.10.10.1\freenasiscool" then the password, then check the box to save it. Windows 7 would not accept manually putting in these credentials any other way.
Also I had to check the adapter settings, as it needed the "Client for Microsoft Networks" installed, as well as under IPv4 I had the NetBIOS "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" checked. I disabled IPv6 all around to reduce any other issues that could arise.
I also had to go into my firewall (Symantec) and configure the rule "Allow UPnP Discovery from private IP addresses" I did this not so that it would work for default login now, but for future services that I wish to enable on the server.
Now I can finally get in, see my directory, make files, delete files, and modify them as well. Unfortunately I further have the issue that copying over a single 54MB file took 30+ minutes, as the transfer rate is right at 28KB/s.
To fix slow transfer to the nas I found how to add options to the network interface. Go to the Network -> Interfaces -> click on yours (mine was re0) in the options set "mtu 9000 up" which I also had to set on the other side of the network link at my laptop. After rebooting the NAS my upload speeds went from 30kbps to 122MB/s peaking out the gigabit LAN.
I hope that some of this helps another person out there.
PS: I posted this here because it directly relates (partially) to jgrecos comments on jumbo frames and their effect on the network throughput.
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Background : I run Win7 x64 Ultimate, private network, running my own NTP on my win7 machine because I don't want to put my nas on the internet and it never wants to stay in synch with my laptop.
Hardware for freenas is:
1 Gigabyte (GA-H87TN) (ultrathin miniITX)
1 Intel Core i5-4460 LGA 1150 CPU (BX80646I54460)
1 Plextor M6M 128GB mSATA SSD (PX-128M6M)
12 Samsung Spinpoint (ST2000LM003) (2TB 2.5inch HDDs)
1 Protronix 8-Port PCI Express SataIII controller
2x8GB Corsair Vengeance (CMSX16GX3M2B1600C9) DDR3L 12800 Laptop memory
(thats 24 TB NAS in a 1.3x15x11 inch form factor! and average power consumption of 30watts. Peak power is 67watts so far.)
The freenas is a stand alone pc with wired network card going via crossover cable into my second pc (my laptop). The link between the two is a private IP scheme without DHCP. The laptop has a separate wifi link to the internet and is not sharing it.
---------------
I ran through the video tutorial to build my nas and share. I used the online video that demos 'freenasiscool' for ver 9.3, ultimately setting up a 12 drive raidz, making a volume, making a dataset, making a share.
I was unable to connect to the nas via the setup cifs share, even when only setting force guest. Seaching online help for 3 days led to no progress. Finally I found someone who pointed out that you can force windows to select "alternate credentials" when using the map network drive wizard! I know how to setup user credentials in windows, and despite setting up in freenas that the user was a windows account, my win7 pc would always attempt to authenticate as a generic credential; see windows credential manager. I had setup and check this more than 50 times. Ironically, despite configuring and logging is as the same user over and over again I had to use the wizard where I could check the box that says "use alternate credentials" with my credentials input as "10.10.10.1\freenasiscool" then the password, then check the box to save it. Windows 7 would not accept manually putting in these credentials any other way.
Also I had to check the adapter settings, as it needed the "Client for Microsoft Networks" installed, as well as under IPv4 I had the NetBIOS "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" checked. I disabled IPv6 all around to reduce any other issues that could arise.
I also had to go into my firewall (Symantec) and configure the rule "Allow UPnP Discovery from private IP addresses" I did this not so that it would work for default login now, but for future services that I wish to enable on the server.
Now I can finally get in, see my directory, make files, delete files, and modify them as well. Unfortunately I further have the issue that copying over a single 54MB file took 30+ minutes, as the transfer rate is right at 28KB/s.
To fix slow transfer to the nas I found how to add options to the network interface. Go to the Network -> Interfaces -> click on yours (mine was re0) in the options set "mtu 9000 up" which I also had to set on the other side of the network link at my laptop. After rebooting the NAS my upload speeds went from 30kbps to 122MB/s peaking out the gigabit LAN.
I hope that some of this helps another person out there.
PS: I posted this here because it directly relates (partially) to jgrecos comments on jumbo frames and their effect on the network throughput.