#Free nas file share for mac and windows password

ATA type disks (IDE/ SATA) are prefixed with ‘a’, followed by ‘d’ short for disk, CD devices are followed by ‘cd’. FreeBSD (Unix) labels disks differently to Linux. Now from the Add window, click on the drop-down in Disk field, this will display all your “disk” devices including removable media, like my DVD ROM drive. The screen should refresh and you should seeįrom the FreeNAS menu bar, click on Disks > Management, the following screen will be displayedĪs we are adding a disk, click on the + symbol on the right. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on Save and Restart. Tick the Enable check box (top right of screen) SMB and CIFS allow Unix/ Linux, Apple OSX and Windows PCs to access the share. Set-up the File Sharing Service (CIFS/ SMB)įrom the FreeNAS menu bar, click on Services > CIFS/ SMB. In the Username field enter the name of the username you wish to use, go to the bottom of the page and click Save. If you wish you can also change the username from Admin to something else, this can be done from the General tab under WebGUI section.

Your old password is already entered for you, so enter your new password (twice) in the fields provided.

This is the first thing we need to do, now the server is up and running.įrom the FreeNAS menu bar, click on System > General and select the Password tab. In Part 2 we are going to configure this PC into to a fully fledged NAS Server. For FreeNAS this is quite a high spec PC as it can run with 256Mb RAM and a Pentium II CPU! In my case this is a Pentium III 800MHz Compaq Deskpro EN tower, maxed out with 512Mb of RAM and a Promise PCI SATA/ IDE card to manage large 250Gb+ hard disks. In Part 1 we installed our FreeNAS Server on an old PC gathering dust in the corner of the office.

#Free nas file share for mac and windows password