TrueNAS Core: Configuring Shares, Permissions, Snapshots & Shadow Copies

any chances we could get get one of these shares and permissions videos using a connected AD server users and groups?

What if we have Microsoft Active Directory connected to TrueNAS Core how to manage permissions between users?

Thanks for this informative yet concise explanation. I tried a couple others first and they generally just rambled on and on about stuff that really didn't matter when I just wanted to get the shares working properly for my Windows machines; one guy used two parts at like 45 mins each covering this same topic and by the end of the first part, still hadn't got a share working properly.

Hello Tom, could you describe how to correct set SMB auditing and where look at the log, in some next video? Thank you very much

Thanks Tom your the best, one line in this Video helped me so much "If there were no snapshots when SMB share created windows won't see previous version until SMB restarted" again thanks :) Love your work.

Thanks from Germany. That video was very helpful to me.

once again, you saved the day. thank you 🙏

Hi there, great content...
I am struggling to get a folder inside of a jail(Syncthing or Nextcloud) shared through the network as a SMB share. I love truenas but the permitions side of it is driving me crazy 🤣

Bonjour, faut-il installer un antivirus, ou il y a aucun risque en sachant que les fichiers sont isoler de windows. Merci de votre avis

Hey,

I've raid_5 configured but the disks on the storage section does not show individual ones, instead all i see total volume of the disk . how to partition/divide them .
Thanks .

As usual you are a scholar and a gentleman. Many thanks Tom.

Hi Tommy, I am in the process of migrating my home lab Open Media Vault to TrueNAS Scale (I chose Scale version as I am more familiar with Debian than FreeBSD). I Created a ZFS Pool with 3 6TB hard drives, created a Dataset and 3 different SMB Shares, each one has a different User and Group, my main user is member of all Groups, I can access each one from my Windows PC but not on my Mac (running MacOS Ventura); all 3 shares are connecting as the same user even though I connected to each share individually (Finder->Go->Connect-to-Server), so I can access only 1 of the Shares (the last one I connect to). What an I missing? Tried pretty much everything with the same result. This is preventing me from doing the migration.

I don't know what it is I do every thing you do and nothing works. i'm about to just say the hell with TrueNAS if I'm going to loose all my stuff..

I can’t even open the UI Linux is such a PITA

I've been over this multiple times now. I can't log in. No matter what I type for acct name and pass, I am just denied access at the windows prompt.

Edit: Try restarting the pc first. Got it!!

Awesome video as usual, but I'm a little upset you deleted my access while making a video about it. lol

Another troubleshot about permissions is resolved by restarting SMB Services.

Can you make another video for Linux users?

Thanks for your detailed explanations and a happy new year. I have a Truenas instance running. The host allow/deny parameters in the smb share don’t seem to be working for me when denying a specific subnet/up address. Anyone got a clue?

Thank you kindly for sharing this video, I watched some other tutorials, and they all had some confusing details that didn't make sense to me, but this one was well explained with granular details.

Thanks again! I dropped a sub as well...

I built my first real viable home-Server using FreeNas thanks to you and your videos and all with hardware that I had accumulated over the past two years. Thank you Tom! In regards to AD/Samba Shares and USERS retaining access via old tokens, would a server reboot serve this purpose as well?

all is good except HOW DID YOU GET THE SHORT CUT ON YOUR DESK TOP??????????

Nice video, but it would be nice to have an updated video which explains how to configure shares and permissions for the Truenas Scale version. Because a lot has changed.

Hi, great tutorial! Would reloading SMB service on TrueNAS do the refreshing of changed permissions? What if we want "marcus" out forcefully?

Love these tutorials. Someone gave me an R710 for free and I know absolutely nothing about servers but this dude helped me get an SMB up and running for my Steam Deck to install games on!

it's still intriguing to me, but less, thanks for well explained topic,
I'm trying to figure out following setup:
let's say I want some SMB share to be accessed by app on truenas - I understand I should probably make a new dedicated usergroup to be owner, and then assign system user "apps" as well as physical individual users to be part of the group?

Excellent Video!

Excellent tutorial. Straight to the point, and concise!

You are my hero.

Being new to Truenas I just built a new storage server to replace a pair of older Readynas 3220 units and after building out the 1st pool, rather than creating sub-datasets, I just went over to sharing and built shares within the pool. It looks like you sub-divide the pool then create shares to the sub-datasets. My question would be, is this going to be an issue for me going forward or does it even matter? The storage server is really for the home lab and backing up all the data from PC's and keeping a master library for Plex etc so no enterprise style use. Permissions are pretty much open to anyone in the house so again does it matter?

Fantastic tutorial, however there are complications with credentials even in simple cases. E.g. having already a shared folder with a user (tom), makes it impossible to mount a second folder (second share, second user - marcus). Windows deny all access.

Great info.

Anyone know how to ignore empty snapshots on a Synology? Seems to be missing this option.

I created two folders for only the user himself so in your example a Tom and a Marcus folder there only the one user has permissions (tom for tom and Marcus for Marcus). In my case I have kind of „admin“ account with his own share. So three shares and users. When I move a file from the admin folder (a setup exe for example) into the „tom“ folder (logged in as admin) the file is not visible to tom.
I‘m not quite understanding this. Seems that somehow the acl is copied over within the file and the permissions/acl of the folder do not overwrite the files ones. Where did I make a mistake? The „folders“ are nested datasets infact.

i will say, it was very frustrating to me when i was setting up my home nas and doing user permissions that appeared not to be working because i wasn't logging out and back in to "refresh" the tokens. took me a while to realize what the issue was.

Could you do it in scale?

Please make one for SCALE also. Only reason I havent switched, is because permissions seems to work really different over there

If you are an admin and a user is login with permission to modify and delete files in the folder. Once you remove the permission for the user to do anything in the folder how would you kick them out remotely if they have the folder and files open?

Thank you for making this video!!!

TrueNAS is certainly interesting, but there are some stuff that they present that are a little bit out of order depending on what it is that you are trying to do (or that you have to jump around in the menus to get said TrueNAS to do what you want it to do, which also means that you need to know to jump around the menus).

Very good video , thanks Tom

Fantastic video as always, Tom!

New studio is looking great, keep it up! We love to see the growth of your channel!

I love your videos but please for the love of God, start making TrueNAS Scale video tutorials, I need them desperately. I know TrueNAS Scale isn't a finished product but it works well enough and I feel like going Linux-based is better for me. But 90% of your videos are based on Core which isn't relevant to me, I do still watch them but some tutorial steps you do are nowhere to be found in Scale.

Sir! You are soooo good at explaining and the fact you add your « best practices » in these videos has to be the biggest added value … (for me anyway) I know I recommend your videos as reference material for friends family and colleagues.

Tom this may just be me asking for free support but it would be awesome if you did a video about smb shares with ldap authentication. I've tried doing it a bunch of times and always get to an "it almost works right" state.

Great tutorial! Can you do one for TrueNas Scale? A little explanation on how to plan/divide drives into vdevs (nothing as crazy as 60 drives) would be very helpful (im thinking SOHO).

Hi. I have tried ACLs many times over the years and somehow manage to get unexpected results and removed ACLs. After your video I tried again and it seems to work. However I would like it to deny user to delete folderrs/files but be able to read/create/execute. That I can´t achieve. Also I´d like to make sure that data/files is not deleted when I do replication to another truenas. E.G if I delete some folderr inn truenas A and replicate again over to truenas B the B wil have all folders/files. How do I do this?

This video was easy to comprehend. Thank you for making it.