FreeNAS on vm

[GoFigureItOut]

One of my future projects involves a home server. I read in Maximum PC about FreeNAS. Before actually buying and building the NAS box, I thought I would give it a go inside VMware player to get my feet wet. It installed just fine and I can access the web GUI. I made extra disk so I can see if I can map them to be shared, but there the problem begins. I enter in the same IP address used for accessing the web GUI and it's share name, but nothing happens. Is it even possible to do this in a virtual environment?

If so, what am I doing wrong? Do I need to use VMware Workstation instead?

 

[blobster21]

Did you add shared folders already ?

see step 2 in this guide

 

[GoFigureItOut]

Yeah, I added one share folder. On Windows end I ran a diagnostic test and said the address is found but a firewall may be preventing the connection. I have file and sharing enabled

 

[blobster21]

You said you're testing freenas in a VM, what kind of network adapter did you choose for your VM ? "Bridged" or "NAT" ?

NATed virtual machines have their IP adresses leased by the VMware network manager and own DHCP, and are not in the same subnet as the host computer IP adress.

This could prevent your host computer to access the shared folders on your VM.

Try to switch your network adapter to "bridged", it's worth a try.

 

[GoFigureItOut]

Okay. I did that, still nothing. The weird thing about this is I do not get prompted to enter in any information. No user name or password it says:

Attempting to connect to: \\192.168.10.130\media. Then it fails a short time later. It even does that without the "media"


I used a step-by-step guide from Maximum PC - November 2012. Everything goes according do plan except the mapping part

 

[GoFigureItOut]

I was able to get it to work using FreeNAS 8.2.0. It's the same version used in the tutorial. I was under the impression that it would work with 9.3 as well

 

[blobster21]

yes, that's weird indeed. More like the samba file sharing service wasn't running or something. Glad you managed to get it working, too bad you had to downgrade though.