Posted: 9/11/2016 10:29:37 PM EDT
| Just installed FreeNAS on an older box. Followed the instructions I saw online for DHCP, but it's not able to grab an IP. Homegroup is on Windows 10 on another machine upstairs. I installed Win7 on another 160GB HDD on this same machine and verified hardware/NIC is good, go back to FreeNAS HDD and it gives network not discoverable or some such... TIA for any help. |
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May have to find linux-flavor drivers for that mobo's NIC chipset - they aren't necessarily available on any and all distros unless they're extremely common cards/chipsets. If not, might have to add in a pci NIC for which you do have a driver or built-in kernel support.
Can test the theory with something generic like a linksys USB NIC and see if that configures. |
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Is there any message in the FreeNAS startup that would tell me it's not seeing the NIC as opposed to just not able to connect to the network? If it helps when I reboot I see... "Starting dhclient. re0: no link .... got link re0: link state changed to UP DHCPDiscover on re0 to 255.255.255.255" etc. ...any specific line I need to look at? |
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I don't have any other other external NICs here to try FYI... detected and configured ethernet devices will usually show as en<x> or eth<x>, occasionally ne<x> Plugging in a usb ethernet while running and monitoring the syslog or messages (depending on distro) will show the USB detection sequence, and assignment of an interface if detected and configured. You can also sift the log for references to the chipset, if you know the maker or number, to see if you can find any error messages related to it. lastly, do an ls on /dev/eth* or /dev/en* to see if anything's been created, though there might be static devices with no configured hardware, even if the listing shows nodes. If no nodes and no messages and no external nics or other cards to try, you're sol until you get something to try |
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lastly, do an ls on /dev/eth* or /dev/en* to see if anything's been created Not exactly sure what that means but if you give me a hint I'll check them out... ls - the list command ls /dev/eth* ls /dev/en* ls /dev/ne* ls -lh if you prefer, for a bit more information about any device nodes it turns up. If you don't understand the ls command from the prompt, there's no point my going any further, sorry. It's all shell wizardry from there on out. |
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synology OS is better than FreeNAS. .02 Details? I've heard good things about the latter and the latest release is supposed to have some nice GUI additions for configuration/monitoring. I've got it standing by but haven't gotten around to installing it yet. |
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Details? I've heard good things about the latter and the latest release is supposed to have some nice GUI additions for configuration/monitoring. I've got it standing by but haven't gotten around to installing it yet. Quoted:
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synology OS is better than FreeNAS. .02 Details? I've heard good things about the latter and the latest release is supposed to have some nice GUI additions for configuration/monitoring. I've got it standing by but haven't gotten around to installing it yet. It's called xpenology. About the same way freenas installs on a thumb drive. Right now xpenology 6 is kinda working but I wouldn't use it for data you cared about at all. Right now the people that work on it are waiting on synology to release the code which they have not done and isn't following the GPL. Freenas is BSD so I would look at the NIC drivers for BSD support instead Linux. |
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Quoted: PCI NIC solved it, thanks. Logged in remotely and created my volume, anybody suggest some tutorials? |
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Does it answer my next question? Yesterday I got access from remote a PC and set up the CIFS shares etc on the NAS, tonight when I try to access the shared drive from a W10 PC I get asked for a login!? I never set this as far as I can recall... WTF? Did you setup permissions? |
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Quoted: Does it answer my next question? Yesterday I got access from remote a PC and set up the CIFS shares etc on the NAS, tonight when I try to access the shared drive from a W10 PC I get asked for a login!? I never set this as far as I can recall... WTF? You "should" use a login. So under Sharing -> Windows (CIFS) Sharing, you setup your share to the appropriate folder. No permissions are set here. Just what you plan to share via CIFS. Under Services -> CIFS, this is where you can setup permissions to the share above. I created a separate account (under Accounts) for logging in. |
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synology OS is better than FreeNAS. .02 OMV is better than both.. :) My issue w/ FreeNas, is it's resource requirements. Since it now requires the use of ZFS.. you're gonna have to have a fairly serious machine to run it. The days of running it on older hardware are older (and I think once OP gets this worked out, he's going to realize that). The way FreeNAS works w/ it's jails, etc... I'm just not a fan anymore, and I loved it back in the day. If OMV ever dies (doesn't seem like it's going away any time soon), I'll just run a vanilla Ubuntu Server and run webMin. Be better off looking at a Linux solution, like OMV. |
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OMV is better than both.. :) My issue w/ FreeNas, is it's resource requirements. Since it now requires the use of ZFS.. you're gonna have to have a fairly serious machine to run it. The days of running it on older hardware are older (and I think once OP gets this worked out, he's going to realize that). The way FreeNAS works w/ it's jails, etc... I'm just not a fan anymore, and I loved it back in the day. If OMV ever dies (doesn't seem like it's going away any time soon), I'll just run a vanilla Ubuntu Server and run webMin. Be better off looking at a Linux solution, like OMV. Quoted:
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synology OS is better than FreeNAS. .02 OMV is better than both.. :) My issue w/ FreeNas, is it's resource requirements. Since it now requires the use of ZFS.. you're gonna have to have a fairly serious machine to run it. The days of running it on older hardware are older (and I think once OP gets this worked out, he's going to realize that). The way FreeNAS works w/ it's jails, etc... I'm just not a fan anymore, and I loved it back in the day. If OMV ever dies (doesn't seem like it's going away any time soon), I'll just run a vanilla Ubuntu Server and run webMin. Be better off looking at a Linux solution, like OMV. The most recent Linux Action Show had a pretty good overview of OMV compared to FreeNAS. |
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FreeNAS is notoriously finicky with NICs. Glad you got it sorted.
I like OMV but it has a slightly different target audience than FreeNAS. It's essentially a Linux fork of FreeNAS which was a good idea from the standpoint that Debian and other distributions have better support for a wider scope of hardware. Package availability is also much more complete than for the *BSDs. I'm sure OMV will be around for a while to come. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Oh nice. I'll keep my eye out for it. I need to turn a couple of UCS servers into an open-source array for our engineers to lab against with all of our partner products. We've been running into more places that are implementing DIY storage. Sometimes the result is horrifying but sometimes the right shop with the right people and hardware have some amazing performance that the enterprise storage vendors would never admit is realistic.
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Version 3 is right around the corner and includes an upgrade to Debian 8. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |