Windows
Share (SMB/CIFS) Configuration on FreeNAS.
The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is a network
file sharing protocol, and as implemented in Microsoft Windows is known as
Microsoft SMB Protocol. The set of message packets that defines a particular
version of the protocol is called a dialect. The Common Internet File System
(CIFS) Protocol is a dialect of SMB. Both SMB and CIFS are also available on
VMS, several versions of Unix, and other operating systems.
The technical reference to CIFS is available from
Microsoft Corporation at Common Internet File System (CIFS) File Access
Protocol.
“The
protocol used to share files over a LAN by the majority of personal computers
is called SMB”
FreeNAS Latest Version Installation & Configuration:
Please find the below link for FreeNAS configuration.
https://linuxwala.blogspot.in/2016/08/how-install-and-configure-freenas.html
Here is my FreeNAS Server details:
Please find the below link for FreeNAS configuration.
https://linuxwala.blogspot.in/2016/08/how-install-and-configure-freenas.html
Here is my FreeNAS Server details:
Hostname: freenas
FreeNAS version : 9.10.1
IP address: 192.168.1.209
Step
1:
First
Create a Disk Volume for providing for shared storage to the share folder.
Select “Storage
Tab”, then click on “Volume Manager”
Give Volume name “Windows Share” and adjust the Volume layout size then click on Add Volume,
Enable
the Service:
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Step
2:
Change
the permissions for open Access for the Volume group
Go to “Storage Tab” click on Change Permissions as
shown below
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Step
3:
Create Dataset for
share Directory as same showed below
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Successfully configure Server side, now verify in client systems.
Client
Side:
Go
to windows machine, Select run then type //freenas (or) //192.168.1.209
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Successfully
configured Windows share (SMB/CIFS) on FreeNAS.
- Ashok Kalakoti