<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hello folks, I finally got my FreeNas file server up and running today. I followed this great tutorial on engadget: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/01/how-to-set-up-a-home-file-server-using-freenas/">http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/01/how-to-set-up-a-home-file-server-using-freenas/</a> I used a CIFS share, and the final step in the instruction guide I followed said to run this command: smbmount //192.168.11.40<freenasip><cifssharename><freenasip><cifssharename>/</cifssharename></freenasip></cifssharename></freenasip>shared /home/user/shared So I did this, (with the proper IP address of course) and it denied me permission. then I did it as root. But then it gave me an error that no such directory existed. I created the directory as root, and then the smbmount command worked. So I copied my files over to the freenas server, and I can't access them as user. Man I suck at this permission thing. Do I need to change ownership of the directory to user? If so, why won't Linux let me do that with chown? Thanks, and sorry if this is elementary-school level stuff. </body> </html>