LucidNAS Quick Start Guide
This section demonstrates the initial preparation that should be performed before you start using the LucidNAS system.
Set Administrative Access
By default, no password is required to access the LucidNAS administrative interface. For security reasons, you should immediately set a password to prevent unauthorized access to the NAS.
From the left pane System Management dropdown select "System Preferences" and click on the "Access Control" button.
Input your chosen password into the "Authentication password" fields and click on "Apply Settings" to activate it.
Optionally, you can chose to restrict access to the Administrative interface to computers on local network only or to a list of specific IP addresses.
NOTE: at this time, LucidNAS only supports one user account for accessing the administrative GUI.
Change the Administrative SSH access password
To set the password for the ''ssh'' account, go to System Management → Services → Internal. Click the OpenSSH Service hotlink:
Prepare Disk Drives
Select "Physical Disks" from the dropdown menu and then click on each individual disk name, in any sequence, and create a GPT partition on every disk that you would like to include in a ZFS storage pool:
Create a Storage Pool
When creating a storage pool or a volume, you have several choices depending upon your storage requirements and whether or not data already exists on the disk(s). The following options are available:
1. Auto-import an existing ZFS storage pool by clicking on the "Import Pool" button. 2. Search for and attempt to import a Hidden ZFS disk, stripe, mirror, RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2, or RAIDZ3 pool by clicking on the "Search for Hidden Pools" button.
on from the dropdown box. Click on "Create" to create a new filesystem.
Set Filesystem Options and Share it
You are almost there. The last step is to set the filesystem options (or simply accept the defaults) and specify how this filesystem is to be shared with the clients:
It is recommended that you select only one type of share per filesystem or dataset' in order to prevent possible conflicts between different types of shares. However, it is possible to share a filesystem with multiple clients using different protocols to access the share.
A filesystem can be shared via CIFS/SMB by clicking the "Share" button next to the "Not shared with Samba" status box. A green checkmark will replace the red X to indicate that the filesystem is now shared via SMB.
Perform Additional Configuration
LucidNAS supports a variety of user access scenarios:
* the use of an anonymous or guest account that everyone in the network uses to access the stored data
* the creation of individual user accounts where each user has access to their own ZFS filesystem
* the addition of individual user accounts to groups where each group has access to their own volume or ZFS dataset
We have pre-selected a common set of configuration defaults for the SAMBA file sharing service but you may still find it necessary to modify a few options, e.g. the Server String, Workgroup Name, Netbios Name, etc.:
Input your domain server names and IP addresses in the form. At lease one domain controller must be entered. Please provide the username and password of DOMAIN ADMINISTRATOR and click "OK":
Congratulations! Your NAS should be fully operational.
