Mount nightmare

darxmurf

Hi there,

I'm fighting on a problem and maybe you can help me.

I have a pfsense 2.0.1 running installation on which I installed the rsync package.
I have plugged on the same network it 2 network HDD

The western disk is a backup of the lacie

Until now to mirror the 2 HDD, I'm using a script on a computer on the same network via samba shares.

I want to simplify this and launch a cron from the PfSense to do it BUT the stupid Lacie HDD only propose to me :

I can SCP files from it but impossible to run a rsync.

so questions, is it possible to

mount a SMB share on pfsense
mount a SFTP/FTP as a folder on pfsense
If yes it's the end of my problems… if not, I have to dismount the Lacie Drive and dig inside the file system to enable the SSH root access.

Thanks in advance

marcelloc

It's not recommended but you can install freesbd samba package on firewall using pkg_add.

Test in on a virtual machine first to see if samba package does not break your pfsense box.

darxmurf

Hi,

thanks for the info but which one should I install ?

marcelloc

Inside the non recommended packages there is a recommended freebsd version :)

Install packages from same freebsd version pfsense uses. Current version is freebsd 8.1 p6.

*-stable packages could depend on shared libs that are not present o outdated on pfsense.