[SOLVED] Free NAS: How do I get it to be seen by other PCs on the Network?

[Martino1994]

Doing my head in, I am new to Free NAS, so learning as I go, I followed all the steps to gt it up and running. I need this solved ASAP.

Basically this is where I am at, I created a volume just fine, created a share just fine, got up to the point of adding to Windows 10,... Win 10 can find it for some reason under \\IPADDRESS\homes, however gives me an error message, before it gave me an error code of which I have forgotten but now after verifying and changing many things within Windows, I am convinced that something isn't right in the FREE NAS itself but I have no clue where to go. The error message is basically: IPADDRESS\homes not available, check admin for permissions... if you got access etc, Device attached to the system is not functioning... Please help!

 

[USAFRet]

Presumably you'd need to 'share' (make accessible) some folders.
https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/9.3/freenas_sharing.html

That would then be visible to the other systems, accessible via username and password.

 

[Martino1994]

Presumably you'd need to 'share' (make accessible) some folders.
https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/9.3/freenas_sharing.html

That would then be visible to the other systems, accessible via username and password.

Hi USAFret,

I need the share folder to the accessible via all windows systems without a password? I have given all users read and write access, Root and Guest? Surely that link doesn't help as its for an older version?

 

[USAFRet]

Within Windows, when you map a drive letter to that share, you can tell it to remember the username/password, and reconnect automatically.
You don't have to enter it every time.

 

[Martino1994]

Within Windows, when you map a drive letter to that share, you can tell it to remember the username/password, and reconnect automatically.
You don't have to enter it every time.

Despite trying that, still getting the 'Device is not functioning on the system' error message. It can't connect, I don't understand at all.