FreeNAS, CIFS, and user login problems
I have been in the process of converting from the dead-end Windows Home Server product to a FreeNAS server for my home NAS. I was trying to replicate the same sort of set up that WHS had for user directories. In WHS, there was a share called "Users" and under that share there were various user directories corresponding to each user account. I thought it would be pretty simple to replicate that same behavior to allow users to simply attach to \\nas-server-name\Users in Windows, and then navigate to their own user folder. What follows is how I achieved this, as well as a problem I fought with for a while that prevented certain users from connecting via CIFS. First, I started off the process by installing FreeNAS to a USB stick, added a few disks in the server, plugged in the USB stick and booted up. I performed basic config for the networking, and admin account passwords, and turned on the CIFS service. Next, I created a some user accounts for my wife and myself, an