You know what’s the funny thing? Immediately after submitting my earlier comment, I was just browsing around the NAS4Free forum I’ve linked to and came across a thread mentioning SMB. It occurred to me that you could have the service disabled, hence you’re not seeing the shares. However, I immediately dismissed that idea because I specifically went over enabling the SMB service in my tutorial and since you followed the tutorial, there was no way that you could have missed that part! Anyways, thanks again for reporting back, especially on the disks issue.

First off all I had to import the disks instead of adding them. After I did that it said that the filesystem was UFS, just like before.

The second (little bit stupid ) thing was that I didn’t enable CIFS/SMB service. I did add the shares but without enabling it of course nothing is visible. I was about to throw something out of the window when I accidentally noticed there were no green check marks in the services/status page.

I’m not sure what is going on as far as the format issue goes.

Have you made sure to actually install Nas4Free onto your hard hard? If not, the settings you make will not stick around if you reboot the server. If you’ve followed my tutorial, then I’m assuming that you have indeed installed the operating system onto your hard drive. In that case, I’ll have to kindly redirect you to the NAS4Free forums for more help because I simply lack the knowledge to continue further. It would have helped if I also experienced the same issues as you did here but I did not for the most part except for the server not appearing in Windows.

http://forums.nas4free.org/

But after following your tutorial again somehow my NAS still isn’t visible in my network. The disks are mounted and when I use the filemanager all my files are visible on the disks. When I looked further into the problem I noticed some strange things. When I go to diskmanagement the filesystem of all my disks apparently is ‘unknown or unformatted’. I can’t simply choose to format the disks because they’re full with my data.

The second thing I’ve noticed is that the things I change with WinSCP aren’t saved. When I reboot the nas and then start WinSCP again the owner of the shares is set back to ‘root’ again.

Are the things I mention the cause of my problems? Or am I doing something else wrong?

Also, the Windows built in remote desktop client connects to other systems via the RDC protocol, which is specific to Windows. Therefore, I don’t think you can remote into your server with that client without some configuration on the server side first. That or use another remote client/server software like VNC. However, you don’t normally remote in to the NAS4Free server because there is nothing to configure besides the network configuration! Once that is done, you manage the server remotely via your browser from then on. You’re best option is still to just simply boot via USB or detach the HDD.

I hope this makes sense to you. If not, please let me know and we can continue our conversation via email instead.

I am with you. Encryption is just smart.