I have a freeNAS 8.5 system that I setup about 12 years ago. If has been working just fine with my Windows machine. I’m in the process of setting up a Ubuntu 24 machine and want to connect to the NAS. But I’m having trouble. I have what I think is the proper settings in Ubuntu, but always get a server did not share share list and it shuts down. I can access the NAS web page via Ubuntu. I use the Firefox browser and enter the IP address. I can then enter the user ID and password, then I can check all the NAS parameters etal. I can not remember exactly what I did when I set up the NAS. I am unsure of the NAS share name and have not been able to determine what it is. Now before you say I need to update the freeNAS, it is working just fine and I would like to retain it as is. Thanks for the help, Mike
But it isn’t, is it? Whatever version you’re actually running (there was never a FreeNAS 8.5–in fact, there was never a FreeNAS 8 release where “5” was any part of the version number), FreeNAS 8 is 16 years old. Security standards change over time. Samba has seen a number of changes, specifically. Are you using SMB1, and no modern OS works with that? It seems like a fair guess.
Sorry, I made a typing error it is version 8.3. Well that is the thing I don’t know what it is. My point that I want to retain it is that I have a number of old (OLD) systems that are connected to this freeNAS and working just fine. Ranging from Windows 3.11, Windows 98, Windows 2000, XP, Win7 etal. I do not want to make the NAS connect to the Ubuntu and not connect to all these other systems. Mike
I can’t tell if you’re trolling us.
Are these real computers or VMs?
FreeNAS 8.3 and Windows 3.11?
They are real machines. In fact I’m working on connecting my DEC PDPE to the network. Mike
How do you edit a post on this forum? I wanted to say PDP8E. Mike
Did I scare you guys away? I think what I need to learn is how I can find out what the share format is for the Ubuntu. I had thought that a windows share would work, but it is not. I don’t know much about the NAS tech. I didn’t actually because each Windows machine just connected as a network drive, with no problems. I need to learn something about this. Where can I find this type of information? Mike
Take the tutorial by the forum bot.
Try NFS.
Thank you for the help. I’m am an old man (nearly 80). I have a boat load of old machines which I used since the 1960’s. In my retirement I have decided to see if I can get them all to work again and connect them all to the NAS. So far I’m doing pretty good at least with the older stuff. It is my pass time. I’ll look else where. Thanks for the help, Mike
Try what @etorix suggests. NFS should work fine.
Apologies for my earlier post. I really thought you were trolling us by using a real computer with Windows 3.11. I’m not sure what you can still do with it other than edit plain text files. 
No problem. THere is quite a lot you can do if you still have the old Software and again I have a bunch. The best thing about the freeNAS connection is that I can save files to the NAS more quickly and can edit them on the newer machines. Using the Teletype ASR 35 on the DEC can take a LOT of time. Saving programs from the PDP8E to paper tape is also a problem. Another issue is dealing with all the disk formats. But these problems are what is keeping me going, especially in the winter which is coming. Thanks, I’ll have to investigate the NFS.
One last thing when I use the fstab file in Ubuntu, I have to include the share_name in the command. I’m not sure what my freeNAS share_name is. I have been looking around on the web connection of the NAS and have tried a couple of names that are not labeled share with no success. Any suggestions? But am going to keep trying. Thanks again, Mike
If you go into the FreeNAS GUI, you’ll see the name of each share under the SMB shares page.
I’m using freenas 8.3 I do not have a smbpage. Here is what I have.
Rats, I tried to post a picture of my freenas and was told I could not.
I have apple shares
Unix shares
Windows shares
no smb shares.
Mike
Windows shares
As you’ve already been told:
But that’s about the extent of my interest in helping you in this ill-advised endeavor.
Browse some other threads and do the Tutorial by the Bot to get your forum trust level up and post images and links
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Ubuntu can read/write smb directly so you don’t have to generally do much special to be able to access the share other than open the file browser in your Ubuntu install and locate the server and share you want. You will need to have the proper user/password to access the share.
This is a bit more involved due to the age of the machines and OS’s the OP want to connect. SMB1 or earlier versions of NFS may be required. Networks may be different formats and not the TCP/IP we are used to.
Yes I agree. During dinner I got to thinking it might not be as straight forward but is it doable.
I just retired a 21 year old (2004) Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS w/RAIDiator OS that only supported smb1 and http. Most Linux distros still can access SMBv1 if you turn it on in the SMB config, but it shouldn’t be necessary if trying to access a fairly recent Ubuntu and a Truenas system. If it is to window a VM with windows 7 can work which was the way I administered the machine.
Windows 3.11 uses the original SMB protocol (whch is basically SMBv1 I think), which is known as CIFS. Most Linux distributions can still access this file system but the cifs-utils package may need to be installed and then you would need to specify the SMB version in the mount command or fstab entry to ensure compatibility I don’t know if Truenas can access CIFS without turning on developer mode
If the OP wants to access Truenas from Windows 3.11 then it might be Truenas → Ubuntu -->Win 3.11, or turn on developer mode to install the needed packages but I don’t really know. Interesting to maybe find out though.
If I understood @mike_z correct he is already successfully accessing the FreeNAS SMB share from Windows 3.1 but has trouble with Ubuntu 24.04.
As others have said Ubuntu 24.04 should be able to use an SMB 1 share just fine. @mike_z depending on what you want to do on Ubuntu and if it’s a desktop system you should just be able to discover and access the share from Ubuntu’s file explorer.
If the Ubuntu machine is a server without a GUI you’ll of course need to find the share name in the web GUI and maybe also change the smb.conf so it’ll allow SMB v1.