• first make a group e.g. macgroup and apply changes.
• second add some users and give them your previously made group as primary group as well as full shell access.

• Alternate to the above *

• On your mac open a terminal window
• ls -ln (this will tell you the user number associated with your account on the mac, mine was 505)
• create your account on freenas and set your UID to the same number as it is on your mac

If you do the same with all of your accounts / macs then you can enforce permissions on the shares (see below) also the owners will show up correctly when you 'getinfo' on the mac. I wouldn't want to do this with a lot of accounts but it's fine for home or a very small office

• it is recommended that you dont share the whole volume but a folder within this volume. now we need to go to the FreeNAS and create a directory there and change access permissions. If you have SSH enabled these things can be done from remote as well off course.

• first create a folder into your data-volume :

mkdir /mnt/yourvolume/yoursharedfolder

• second take away root - ownerships as netatalk doesn't like this at all:

chown macuser:macgroup /mnt/yourvolume/yoursharedfolder

• third give them access rights into the folder :

chmod 2775 /mnt/yourvolume/yoursharedfolder

(if you have other users you dont want inside there at all use 2770)

• In the share section, only the first 3 entries are really relevant (name, comment, path) the rest can be left out. I personally use the last one (upriv) as with 10.5.x clients this seems to be more compatible.

• Due to stability issues on my machine, with afp in v0.7RC1 (afp would periodically stall or dropout on large file transfers) I used NFS Manager to setup NFS mounts which were rock solid.
• There are two primary actions to perform:
• create a mount point on your mac
  • On mine I opened a terminal window and cd / (this changed me to the root directory)
  • I then sudo mkdir /mnt (this created the directory / folder /mnt at the top of the folder structure)
  • Then I did sudo /mnt/yourmountpoint (this created the folder where NFS would attach the share)
• Open NFS Manager
  • click the lock and authenticate as an administrator
  • select 'Automounts from /Local/Default (on the left hand side)
  • click the plus sign to create a new mount
  • put the IP address of the freenas server in the section marked 'NFS Server'
  • Put the directory you created (on the freenas server in the 'Shares' tab, Path section of the NFS service) in the section marked 'Share Path'
  • select 'Use Predefined folder' and put the directory you created (up there) (/mnt/yourmountpoint)
  • select 'Ignore “set user ID” privledges' checkbox
  • select apply
• Then just hit the 'Trigger selected Mount now' and it should mount in finder