help setting up FreeNas

[cTurtle98]

I need help

 

I have all the hardware but cant figure out the software

 

I have a backup server built with 2x 320gb and 2x250gb drives i had lying around then I bought 2x 8tb drives

 

I have freenas installed on the server and I have tries 3 different times to get a samba share I can add to windows file history (on my gaming desktop)

 

at first I just made a volume with the origional 4 drives and made a samba share in it, I could mount it on my pc and login with the account I made on the freenas server but windows refused to let me back up to it

so then I looked up windows stuff and tried to enable active directory but that just made it so i couldn't mount the share anymore

 

now I have the 8tb drives and im looking at the "share modules trying to figure it out but I just dont know what I need to do

 

if anyone could tell me exactly what I need to do to setup this server to make a samba share I can add in windows backup I would be really greatfull

(between every try I hookup a monitor to the server and use the console reset to factory defaults option)

[Mikensan]

Are you mounting it to a drive letter and then trying to backup to the drive letter? I don't think Windows Backup supports backing up to a UNC path.

 

If you understand volume shadow copy / file versioning, read below. 

File history / Versioning will work for files that exist on the NAS, not files that exist on your PC and you'd like to put versions/history via VSS onto the NAS. If you're looking for file versions for files that exist (or ones you plan on putting) on the NAS, then use FreeNAS snapshots which will advertise the versions to windows so you can go to properties > previous versions.

[cTurtle98]

6 hours ago, Mikensan said:

Are you mounting it to a drive letter and then trying to backup to the drive letter? I don't think Windows Backup supports backing up to a UNC path.

 

If you understand volume shadow copy / file versioning, read below. 

File history / Versioning will work for files that exist on the NAS, not files that exist on your PC and you'd like to put versions/history via VSS onto the NAS. If you're looking for file versions for files that exist (or ones you plan on putting) on the NAS, then use FreeNAS snapshots which will advertise the versions to windows so you can go to properties > previous versions.

I was trying to setup active directory because I thought that was my problem but I eventually gave up on that and got rid of it and restarted from scratch and now it suddenly works, I was able to connect to my freenas in both windows backup and restore (control panel) and windows backup (system settings)

 

not sure what I messed up before

[TonyStark]

Just a few tips.

• Always check your firewall settings
• Check your network IP settings (DHCP or Static etc)
• create proper users and user groups with proper access rights on the NAS
• having mounted the volumes on the NAS check and if necessary restart the proper services to enable sharing
• check the share settings that are mapped to the proper volume share on the nas.

[cTurtle98]

15 minutes ago, TonyStark said:

Just a few tips.

• Always check your firewall settings
• Check your network IP settings (DHCP or Static etc)
• create proper users and user groups with proper access rights on the NAS
• having mounted the volumes on the NAS check and if necessary restart the proper services to enable sharing
• check the share settings that are mapped to the proper volume share on the nas.

Ok so let me see if I'm doing this right

 

I made a group called "OWNER" then I made a user for myself and made that my primary group, then I made groups for my backup and storage datasets and I added those as auxiliary groups for mine

 

In my user on the Nas I added the email for my Microsoft account that is logged in on my PC and checked the box saying Microsoft account but it still asked for my password, does my password need to be the same for the Nas and Microsoft for that to work ?

 

I set a static IP on the server, that was the first thing I did

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HELP

[TonyStark]

If yu set the same username and password on the NAS user, then you will not have to log in every time to the NAS share or enter your credentials.  .

Also If you do not have an infrastructure (greater than a couple of PC's and the NAS) you do not need to set up a domain on the NAS or on a Server (physical or virtual).

[cTurtle98]

1 minute ago, TonyStark said:

If yu set the same username and password on the NAS user, then you will not have to log in every time to the NAS share or enter your credentials.  .

Also If you do not have an infrastructure (greater than a couple of PC's and the NAS) you do not need to set up a domain on the NAS or on a Server (physical or virtual).

My network is my desktop, my laptop my videogame server (factorio and Minecraft) and my web / media (emby) server so I don't think I need domain, also the servers are debian

[TonyStark]

ok, then just make an user account for each user on each machine (one for your desktop, one your your laptop etc) and you can simply log in with thise at once. 

also FreeNAS supports natively Linux OS (since its based on FreeBSD) and it has a plug in for Minecraft Server