Some Help With FreeNas Please

[buges]

I've just installed FreeNas today & im happy with it, but i got a problem reguarding Multiple Nic's.

I have 2 Nic's installed on my freenas machine 1 is used to transfer stuff from my main pc & the other is connected to the xbox.

I tried for example 1st nic on 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 & then assigned the second to 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0

Smb shares stop working, when i do this. (smb is fine util i assigned the other nic) but the www interface is ok

Is there any way of bridging them? like you can in xp or taking Multiple ip's from the nics & virtualy routing them to a common ip ?

thanks

[syion]

PC to PC or xbox to PC requires a cross over cable.

a HUB, Switch or router would work better with a standard cable

[buges]

Thanks for the reply syion

but it seems it's a bug in freenas & have now moved over to ubuntu for my server

[rashid420]

Originally Posted by buges

I've just installed FreeNas today & im happy with it, but i got a problem reguarding Multiple Nic's.

I have 2 Nic's installed on my freenas machine 1 is used to transfer stuff from my main pc & the other is connected to the xbox.

I tried for example 1st nic on 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 & then assigned the second to 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0

Smb shares stop working, when i do this. (smb is fine util i assigned the other nic) but the www interface is ok

Is there any way of bridging them? like you can in xp or taking Multiple ip's from the nics & virtualy routing them to a common ip ?

thanks

I tried FreeNAS in the past. Thing is they discourage you from using NTFS format for the HD. Problem is I could never get FreeNAS to format it using UFS only NTFS. NTFS is not reliable as per FreeNAS, so I also moved on to Ubuntu as server. I mean NTFS is the only thing I could get working with FreeNAS and then they say I shouldn't use it. Huh?

FreeNAS is one "free" program IMHO is not worth the effort.

[althekiller]

Surely FreeNAS has their own community where you can get better answers?

[rashid420]

Originally Posted by althekiller

Surely FreeNAS has their own community where you can get better answers?

Of course Yes, FreeNas has it's community. But No, it does not mean you can get better answers. Every board is not like XBMC.

Tversity and Freenas could learn a lot from these forums.

[kizer]

You mean you don't like RTFM for a response from everybody.

[Maxim]

Configuring the NICs in the fashion that you have them will not work because both of the NICs are on the same subnet which will result in the OS internally routing the traffic out of only one of the interfaces. Essentially it breaks networking on either end. In order to have that work the way you want, you'll have to configure each interface on a different subnet. So one on the subnet 192.168.1.0, and the other interface on 192.168.2.0. The IPs of each your computer, and the xbox will have to of course be in their respective subnets.

Bridging the two interfaces will not work as you might expect because it will not allow the machine in the middle to communicate with either of the other two machines connected to the interfaces.

Aww wtf, this thread is several months old. Oh well. Hope that info helps someone at some point in time.

[rashid420]

Originally Posted by kizer

You mean you don't like RTFM for a response from everybody.

I actually write manuals for a living and tell other people to RTFM. I RTFM'ed FreeNas just fine. Their manual sucks.