ksignorini
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I've just set up this new FreeNAS box using FreeNAS-9.10.2-U1 (86c7ef5) - (latest update). I'm accessing shares using an updated macOS Sierra computer (10.12.2).
Here's what's happening:
1. I create a dataset, mark it to use Mac permissions, and give it a user and group that correspond to the account I'm accessing it with on my Mac. I set it to use the Mac sharing type.
2. I create an AFP share that points to the dataset in 1.
3. On my Mac, I see the freenas server in Network (or in sidebar of Finder) and I can access the share without any trouble at all. I click on freenas in Finder and it authenticates and connects super fast! Yay!
If I hadn't authenticated yet (i.e. I click on the Connect As button) it brings up the authenticate window with two fields...the Name field (already filled out with my Full Name) and Password field (since it's in my keychain, it's already filled in and I just have to click the Connect button). I connect instantly.
...here's where it goes sideways...
4. Now I create a new dataset for my Time Machine backup and set it up with the same user permissions, etc. as the dataset in 1. It's also marked as using Mac permissions and Mac sharing type.
5. I create an AFP share pointing to the Time Machine dataset and mark it with the Time Machine checkbox.
6. Now whenever I try to connect to the freenas box to see the regular share I created in 2., almost every time, I can't connect. Finder tells me that the connection failed. Sometimes it lets me try to authenticate but the authentication window is different than the one in 3. It has options to connect as Guest or Registered user (radio buttons) and has filled in my short name (not my Full Name) and password. Even entering the correct data won't let me authenticate. Finder just shows Connection Failed.
7. However, the Time Machine share is 100% available for Time Machine to connect to. Works like a charm.
Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I've spent hours monkeying with this. I've made dataset after dataset, some nested, some not nested, some on different volumes; I've tried every type of permission and sharing type available, I've created SMB shares (which I need more help with...another thread maybe). Nothing makes this work.
The only thing that let's me reliably (and instantly!) connect to my original shares is to delete the Time Machine share, and boom. Everything works again (but no Time Machine, now).
Please help. I'm going batty.
Sincerely,
Kent
Here's what's happening:
1. I create a dataset, mark it to use Mac permissions, and give it a user and group that correspond to the account I'm accessing it with on my Mac. I set it to use the Mac sharing type.
2. I create an AFP share that points to the dataset in 1.
3. On my Mac, I see the freenas server in Network (or in sidebar of Finder) and I can access the share without any trouble at all. I click on freenas in Finder and it authenticates and connects super fast! Yay!
If I hadn't authenticated yet (i.e. I click on the Connect As button) it brings up the authenticate window with two fields...the Name field (already filled out with my Full Name) and Password field (since it's in my keychain, it's already filled in and I just have to click the Connect button). I connect instantly.
...here's where it goes sideways...
4. Now I create a new dataset for my Time Machine backup and set it up with the same user permissions, etc. as the dataset in 1. It's also marked as using Mac permissions and Mac sharing type.
5. I create an AFP share pointing to the Time Machine dataset and mark it with the Time Machine checkbox.
6. Now whenever I try to connect to the freenas box to see the regular share I created in 2., almost every time, I can't connect. Finder tells me that the connection failed. Sometimes it lets me try to authenticate but the authentication window is different than the one in 3. It has options to connect as Guest or Registered user (radio buttons) and has filled in my short name (not my Full Name) and password. Even entering the correct data won't let me authenticate. Finder just shows Connection Failed.
7. However, the Time Machine share is 100% available for Time Machine to connect to. Works like a charm.
Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I've spent hours monkeying with this. I've made dataset after dataset, some nested, some not nested, some on different volumes; I've tried every type of permission and sharing type available, I've created SMB shares (which I need more help with...another thread maybe). Nothing makes this work.
The only thing that let's me reliably (and instantly!) connect to my original shares is to delete the Time Machine share, and boom. Everything works again (but no Time Machine, now).
Please help. I'm going batty.
Sincerely,
Kent