Can Freenas use storage on another server
I have a Freenas box running on the same network as a Ubuntu Linux box. The Freenas box provides an FTP service and files are stored locally. I have a requirement for one user to use the same FTP service but store their files on the Ubuntu Linux box (it's a web server so I want them to be able to amend their web site).
Can the Freenas box address storage on the Ubuntu box?
Can the Freenas box address storage on the Ubuntu box?
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Are you asking if you can mount Ubuntu server in Freenas so FTP are send to ubuntu instead?
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yes, exactly but only for one user.
Sure. I see no reason why it won't work.
You can setup NFS in Ubuntu and export the path then mount Ubuntu in freenas. If it works, add it to fstab so it will remount on boot.
You can setup NFS in Ubuntu and export the path then mount Ubuntu in freenas. If it works, add it to fstab so it will remount on boot.
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I've created a NFS share on Ubuntu and successfully mounted in through the shell on freenas. The next step was to make the new mapped share the home directory of the ftp user but when I give the share to the user I get the error "The path must reside within a volume mount point"
Not sure what that means.
Not sure what that means.
Do you get the error from the GUI? What error of freeNas are you using?
Can you provide the exact commands or steps you have done?
Can you provide the exact commands or steps you have done?
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Yes, Freenas doesn't see anything that it didn't create through the GUI. What I've done is to look at it from another angle and create a NFS share on the Freenas box and then mount that from the Web server and put the web site on the share. I think this is a better solution anyway because now the website resides on a RAID5 array.
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The NFS share is created on the RAID 5 array and mounted by the web server so the data does reside on the RAID 5.
I did wonder about the integrity of the solution and whether it was a good idea to do what I've done - it does work but maybe it's not the best way.
I will try your suggestion (skullnobrains) this evening and report back. Cheers.
I did wonder about the integrity of the solution and whether it was a good idea to do what I've done - it does work but maybe it's not the best way.
I will try your suggestion (skullnobrains) this evening and report back. Cheers.
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I've been running the nginx web server with a NFS mounted file system hosted on the FreeNas server and all seems good. It's only a very low volume site so performance is not really an issue so I'm happy with this solution.
Thanks all for the input.
Thanks all for the input.