The default login is username: openfiler, password: password
Services tab
Enable LDAP
Enable SMB/CIFS if you want sharing with Windows machines.
If you are looking for other services you should already be familiar with them (NFS or iSCSI).
One the right, Services section, click “SMB/CIFS Setup”
All of the default settings should be sufficient. Click Apply.
Accounts tab
(default) On the right, Accounts section, click “Authentication”
check “Use LDAP”
Local LDAP server: check “Use Local LDAP Server”
LDAP Security: (default) uncheck “Use TLS” (I would rather use TLS, but it is local and I got an error with it enabled)
Server: 127.0.0.1 (default)
Base DN: dc=san,dc=revantine,dc=net
Root bind DN: cn=Manager,dc=san,dc=revantine,dc=net
Root Password: (write it down somewhere)
SMB LDAP Configuration: check “Login SMB server to root DN”
User password policy: check “Allow users to set password:
Click submit.
IMPORTANT: When you submit here, it initializes the local LDAP. If you do it again later it could potentially erase changes you have made.
Click the sub-tab “Expert View”, scroll to “UID/GID Synchronization” and check “Synchronize UID/GID information to LDAP”.
You need to restart ldap. Go to the Services tab and out beside LDAP server click “Disable” wait for the refresh and click “Enable”.
On the right, Accounts section, click “Admin Password”
The default password is “password”
Type a new one (and again to confirm it) and click Submit.
On the right, Accounts section, click “Administration”
Since the cached password just changed, you need to login again.
Group Administration sub-tab, Add new group,
Group Name: Users
Override automatic GID, uncheck (default)
Click “Add Group”
User Administration sub-tab, Add new user,
Username: charles
Password: asdfgh
Retype the password
Primary Group: “500: Users”
Override automatic UID, uncheck (default)
Click “Add User”
System tab
On the right, System section, click “Network Setup”
Scroll down to “Network Access Configuration”
We are going to add networks to permit access to
| Delete | Name | Network/Host | Netmask | Type |
| LAN | 192.168.0.0 | 255.255.255.0 | Share |
Click “Update”
Scroll down to “Network Access Configuration”
| Delete | Name | Network/Host | Netmask | Type |
| LAN | 192.168.0.0 | 255.255.255.0 | Share | |
| VPN | 192.168.1.0 | 255.255.255.0 | Share |
Click “Update”
Volumes tab
This walk through is tailored to systems using software raid. The software raid is preferable to fakeraid (if it is on a motherboard or you paid less than $150 it is probably fakeraid) and hardware raid is expensive.
On the right, Volumes section, click “Block Devices”
/dev/sda may be your system drive, if so choose /dev/sdb and continue. You can tell this by looking at the “Partitions” column and your data drives should have 0 partitions.
Edit Disk column, Click /dev/sda,
scroll to the bottom,
Mode: Primary (default)
Partition Type: RAID array member
Leave these default, Starting cylinder, Ending cylinder, Size
Click Create
You are taken to an “Edit partitions” page, click the link “Back to the list of physical storage devices”.
Edit Disk column, Click /dev/sdb
…And repeat for each storage drive…
On the right, Volumes section, click “Software RAID”
Select RAID array type, “RAID-5 (parity)”
Check mark all the devices that you just made “RAID array member” partitions on, /dev/sda1, sdb1, sdc1…
Click “Add array”
It will report back that the State is “Clean & degraded” and Synchronization is “Not started”.
There is a bug in 2.3 that prevents the Physical Volume creation from detecting software raid volumes (/dev/md0).
You can work around the issue by using ssh, login as root and run the commands below.
[root@lumpy ~]# pvcreate /dev/md0 Physical volume "/dev/md0" successfully created [root@lumpy ~]# pvscan PV /dev/md0 lvm2 [2.73 TB] Total: 1 [2.73 TB] / in use: 0 [0 ] / in no VG: 1 [2.73 TB] [root@lumpy ~]# vgcreate store /dev/md0
Volumes tab
On the right, Volumes section, click “Add Volume”
Scroll down,
Volume Name: a
Volume Description:
Required Space (MB): 514702
Filesystem / Volume type: Ext3
Shares tab
Network Shares, click the “a” (/mnt/store/a)
Folder Name: photographs
Click “Create Sub-folder”
Click the “photographs” (/mnt/store/a/photographs/)
Click “Make Share”
Edit share /mnt/store/a/photographs/
Share Access Control Mode:
select “Controlled access”
Scroll to “Group access configuration”
| GID | Group Name | Type | PG | NO | RO | RW |
| 500 | Users | LDAP | * | * |
Click “Update”
Scroll to “Host access configuration (/mnt/store/a/photographs/)”
I have two networks that I configured earlier, LAN and VPN. I want both to be able to read and write.
In the SMB/CIFS column, check “Restart services”
LAN 192.168.0.0 put the dot under RW
VPN 192.168.1.0 put the dot under RW
Click “Update”