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Re: ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]

Frank Leng — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:58:00 -0000

Hi. forget about FTP. I never mentioned anything about it in the guide, nor are we ever going to be using that with this setup.

The machine you end up building uses standard Windows file sharing protocol - SMB aka CIFS. This means that Windows can detect the server on the network directly. You will access the file just like you would with any standard Windows network share.

And yes, you can drag and drop any file, any size of files you want from your existing NTFS partitions.
You will want to use fast hard drives. the WD Greens I used will not do you much good.

Re: ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]

Frank Leng — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:49:42 -0000

It was never meant to be a drobo killer. drobo has its place. but for the people who want the best performance/cost ratio, this is it.

most importantly. if your drobo ever breaks down like mine did. your only bet is to buy another drobo. which can be quite costly for most people here

Re: ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]

Burzukk — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:53:04 -0000

I am a video designer and work with numerous and huge files that I wish to keep all this as safe as possible, fast and easy to access from my win7 os

My questions:
1.How will this virtual machine interract with windows 7. Via ftp!?
2. Is it possible to make it a DAS communicating directly with windows (recognized as just an external disk via esata). Would the VM OS just sort all this as the Drobo seems to?
3. In its current state (NAS) can I just throw files from my ntfs drives at it whitout any concern and vice versa?
4. Do you think there is any way I could work directly on the NAS from windows? Without using a ftp!? (edit files, open after effects projects from it, render directly on it, etc)

I know you probably don't use windows as and OS may not know all the answers concerning windows, but just trying to find answers, can't find anything related to my questions on the web. Thanks!

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Frank Leng — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:50:51 -0000

I don't think legacy support for OS9 is supported anymore.

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Colleen Thompson — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:34:38 -0000

This didn't help me get a Lion Mac to connect to an OS 9 Mac which has file sharing turned on.

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

DL — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:39:14 -0000

how do you reverse sudo commands for afp solution?

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Pogosyan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:09:24 -0000

NFS has notions of "soft" and "hard" mounts. With "hard" mount the application that is accessing NFS files will hang if the server disappears, but will resume operation when server comes back. With soft mount NFS server will report an error to the application, and application will probably exit.

Most prefer hard mount, to deal with intermittent connections,
but in addition to run NFS with "intr" option, which allows hanged application to be interrupted.

This is to be configured on the client side, as mount options when NFS share is mounted.

I am not greatly familiar with Mac OSX, but it should have it somewhere. I believe OSX default is hard mounts, so one should look for intr option.

In your case what is happening is that Word tries to access file which make autofs to try to mount NFS share. Since the attempted mount is 'hard', inaccessibility of the server does not make autofs to quit, rather it presistently continues mount attempts. And Word waits. In old Unix times, for NSF with automounting the "soft" mount was recommended. Then autofs should quit after the first failure.

Try to find those options and play with "hard + intro" versus "soft"

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Ernestvandenheuvel — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:39:02 -0000

hi frank,
how do i set-up smb on lion. where and how( with what program etc) in the "terminal" ?
can you please explain the easy way , cause i'm quite desperate that i cannot acces my map movies via smb in osx lion

Re: ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]

Mbwjoe — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:21:33 -0000

I think all you've done here is prove just how great the drobo is.

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Jadoll — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:55:08 -0000

I've tried the AFP workaround but it still does not work. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We're using old Snap Drive Servers. Are they just too old?

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Frank Leng — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:54:42 -0000

Try the "direct connect" method I mentioned in the post. basically just go to Finder and select "Connect to Server" from the menu and enter ur login. It has worked for me and some other ppl on the latest version of Lion

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Frank Leng — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:53:39 -0000

Are you using AFP to access the files or Samba?

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Frank Leng — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:52:55 -0000

thanx for the tip for IPv6 users. tho I really dont think IPv6 has any place in a private network. what made u decide to go for it?

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Frank Leng — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:52:01 -0000

completely agree. I have no problem with Apple getting rid of older technology... but for something that is essential to the workflow of everyday users... this is really pushing it!

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Frank Leng — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:51:12 -0000

sorry. dont think there is a workaround for that.

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Jadoll — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:58:00 -0000

Unfortunately the AFP workaround did not work for me. Uggghh, pulling my hair out. Open to other suggestions. Thanks.

Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Kadu — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:15:03 -0000

Hi Frank, here's an interesting bug I wonder if you know a workaround.
I have most of my files on a NFS share, this is setup via the NFS automoung on Lion Disk Utilities.
All works well, until I disconnect from my network. Applications I used that had files saved on the NFS share (ex. Word or Photoshop) won't open. They keep trying to access the NFS share, I imagine to populate the recently used list.

If I remove the NFS settings from NFS automount then the App starts fine as the OS doesn't try to mount the NFS share at all.

Any ideas?

Re: ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]

mobi — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:39:02 -0000

Thanks for a great article, I'm now fully signed up to freenas! I'm using the Asus E35M1-M PRO
http://www.asus.com/Motherboar...

but I fail to see how the GPU is going to help with data copy throughput. Can you explain? Maybe freebsd or zfs makes use of the GPU??

Re: Drupal Tip: Lightbox pop-up on page load

Mananthnov — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:57:47 -0000

I have written light box on page load. its working fine. i need to set timeout to load lightbox. how do i do it?. code given below.

Script :

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        var popMargLeft = 120;

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Re: ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]

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Re: Maximizing iPhone’s Battery Life

Cgpasco292k — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:56:05 -0000

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Re: Maximizing iPhone’s Battery Life

Cgpasco292k — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:47:46 -0000

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Re: Connect to a FreeNAS Samba or AFP share on Mac OS X Lion [Workarounds] [Updated]

Mike — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:43:36 -0000

Tried the AFP fix - doesn't work through Terminal.

I remain staggered at the attitude of Apple to NAS devices.

So, here I am having 'upgraded' only to find Apple has screwed my working machine again.

IT is outrageous.

Mike

Re: ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]

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Re: ZFS powered NAS, ultimate alternative to Drobo + Droboshare [Complete Guide]

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