SMB Windows share drive mapping issues

[masonvanmeurs]

Hey all,
I just got my freenas system working this week and am a noob at this. I'm running an old file server node that I got for free after my college upgraded its super computer. If you are curious it's running dual xeon 5420's (I will probably disable one to save power later), 16gb of ecc ram, and I'm running a raid z array with 3 2tb WD red hard drives as primary backup, as well as a raid 5 on 6 1TB drives on a physical raid card for backup of the WD hard drives, as well as a 128gb Adata SSD for boot.

My issue is with SMB sharing. Screen shots will be provided but I can't map both the mason and family network drive in windows at the same time. Yesterday I had the family drive mapped fine and file transfers worked like normal, but I couldn't figure out why I also couldn't map to the mason drive. I disconnected from the family drive and sure enough, I could mount the mason drive with no luck mounting the family drive once connected to the mason drive. FYI the same issue occurs on my dad's laptop. I'm a noob at this as I am more of a hardware guy, any help is appreciated!

 

[m0nkey_]

The last screenshot is a clue. You already have a connection to FreeNAS under a different username.

 

[masonvanmeurs]

So I'm not allowed to connect to freenas using different usernames, even if they are different datasets?

 

[m0nkey_]

So I'm not allowed to connect to freenas using different usernames, even if they are different datasets?

It's a limitation of Widows, not FreeNAS. Windows only allows one user connection to a server.

In order to access multiple SMB shares/datasets, you need to use groups.

Check my SMB permissions video resource: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/freenas-and-samba-smb-permissions-video.8/