Comments on: How to Setup iSCSI Drive Using FreeNAS

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:34:39 +0000

First I’d like to compliment you on your outstanding tutorials I have just recently started working with iSCSI and FreeNAS and you’ve really given me a good education over the past two days. SO on to my question…Out of personal and business curiosity I’ve been trying to make my FreeNAS drive available through the internet. Is this possible? I can see the target from a remote network however when I try to log on i get a connection failed error. I can connect and transfer data just fine on my local network it’s the WAN part that’s giving me a hard time.

Thanks,

-Dan

By: powpow

powpow — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:28:39 +0000

Hey Iggy,
This error is likely being caused by a open file or shared folder pointing to a location on that target.
Under My Computer | Manage | Shared Folders | Shares, stop any shares that point to that target.

By: vinzzz

vinzzz — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:36:07 +0000

Hi I have a question regarding iSCSI. I bought a NAS so i can centralize my data. While my data is centralized, i want to index my networkshares on the NAS, so i can quickly find files, metadata etc.
Windows 7 doesnt allow indexing networkshares.

Is iSCSI a solution for my situation? Can the data still resist on my NAS, available for all computers in my LAN, and still trick windows that i have a local drive of 1.5TB (actually the disk on the NAS) ?

By: Kakunka

Kakunka — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:42:31 +0000

Guys:

This is for Vanilla XP

First, go to Control Panel Select Administrative Tools
Now Select Services
Make sure Logical Disk Manager and Logical Disk Manager Administrative Services
are started, right click and select start.
Now
Check that Microsoft ISCSI Initiator Service is started (same deal)

Now make sure ISCSI is up using the MS ISCSI initiator as he specs above
( run C:\WINDOWS\system32\iscsicpl.cpl )

Okay close out Services go back to Admin Tools
Now select Computer Management
under Storage select Disk Management
The disk will appear with a red no go icon
right click and select initialize
Now right click and select partition and format and select Drive letter. . .

“voila” as they say in Frogland. . . Drive should appear in your Win Explorer window
K.

By: jonthegimp

jonthegimp — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:30:45 +0000

Ash
It depends on what version you have – I was able to fix mine with the following:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=4854

Hope that helps, it is a frustrating problem.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:47:52 +0000

Error code 1 is owning me. Tried unmounting, makes absolutely no difference.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:51:34 +0000

The new version has just been released and I have never used FREENAS before and loved this tutorial. The version 7 has implemented some changes with regards to iSCSI Target and I am a bit confused. Would love to see a revised turorial based on the FreeNAS .7

Thanks in advance

By: Iceberg Titanic

Iceberg Titanic — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:08:02 +0000

Hi folks -

To unmount the devices, so that you can enable the iSCSI service, go to the Disks menu, and select Mount Point. You can unmount drives there.

By: Emre CAN

Emre CAN — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:42:55 +0000

Hello thank you for this excellent tutorial.

Im hoping to get a solution from experts here,
My problem is, windows does not start to “New Simple Volume Wizard” because, Windows itself can not find the iSCSI disk no matter how much i clicked tru “rescan disks”

What would you suggest?

Sincerely,
Emre.

By: Iggy

Iggy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:08:08 +0000

Very cool and useful guide. I do have one question for you that I can’t figure out.
Let’s say I get all the way to Step 19 (where the drive is mounted and functioning).

How do I unmount it gracefully and then disconnect from the target?

I can’t find this info anywhere on the ‘net. I’ve tried the “mountvol F: /d” command and that ‘unmounts’ F:, but I cannot logoff the session (using the Targets tab of the iSCSI Initiator Properties panel). I get an error: “The session cannot be logged out since a device on that session is currently being used.”

I’m using Vista Enterprise on my client machine.

Thanks,
Iggy

By: Shankar

Shankar — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:26:57 +0000

Thanks for the guide
it is wonderful

once again thank u very much

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By: Giorgio

Giorgio — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:13:04 +0000

for Scottt problem ‘…error code 1 when selecting the check mark for the enable iSCSI Target…’ you must umount disks then check mark and it works.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:15:38 +0000

Hi Im having the same problem as Scottt. Any ideas ? Thanks

By: Bas

Bas — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:21:08 +0000

Great guide, I’m a total newby with freenas but this makes it easy.

@Scotty: I had the same problem, but then I discovered I allready mounted the iSCSI device somewhere else. Deleted this an after that no error code 1 anymore.

By: Scottt

Scottt — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:03:57 +0000

After setting up the system per your recommendation I get an error code 1 when selecting the check mark for the enable in step 12. I look at the log and it says it is failing to start the ISCSI service. Any ideas.

By: Gary Sims

Gary Sims — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:03:33 +0000

Thanks for an excellent guide, I have blogged about it at http://www.learnfreenas.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=54

Thanks, Gary