I really don't know why I watch anyone else before you- I wasted about an hour going through other peoples turt and stuck in the same place. 10 min into your video and my issue is gone! Thank you for all your hard work putting these together!!!
GOD BLESS THE REX. I just (2/2023) decided to pull my system forward from Core to Scale...and SMB was driving me NUTS trying to figure out the entire ACL deal with SMB shares. Once you explained the groups thing..I found the issue and I was able to mount SMB shares on OSX. THANK YOU !!!!!
These 3 TrueNAS Scale tutorials have been a wonderful way to get started with the OS. I'm a little sad to see that this is the end of the playlist though. You're really good at explaining the different options in an understandable way!
Absolutely fantastic, it's so great when you follow along step by step with a tutorial and everything goes right, and it actually makes sense. Looking forward to seeing more of your tutorials, thank you.
Thanks. Excellent help. I am a noob and was really struggling. The TrueNas documentation is excelent, but for a complete novice it can be daunting. I was able to review your video multiple times, then go step by step with your video running and pausing and got my NAS up and running. It helps that your videos are well done, organized, and give pragmatic "defaults". This is exactly the help I needed. It doesn't hurt that you are easy on the eyes as well.
I love how you are explaining every step and what it does. I'm new to building nas servers especially on TrueNas Scale system and I would love to see more of this type videos, how to create groups, pools, how to create shared files/folders and how to create private, since truenas scale interface has changed recently. Thank you for all your effort making these videos for us.
Thank you so much for this, been searching through all of the TrueNAS forums and following other channel tutorials and so far this is the only one that's worked. Two whole days wasted (and just a little bit of hair, not that I have a great deal left), time for a beer!
Thanks so much! These are hugely helpful. I'm waiting for the last couple parts to come in to finish my first TrueNAS build. These configuration videos are a tremendous help. Much appreciated! J
@@SpaceRexWill Found your channel ca. 2-3 weeks ago (building my first NAS) and I've been binging ever since. Great content, smooth delivery, no nonsense. Huge thanks for sharing what you've learnt! Cheers, mate!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! It was a little hard because my version looks different, but after one fail it actually worked. In the video I watched before I found yours was a guy telling me it´s a great idea to not create users or groups and just publishing my data to anyone in my network, I´m glad that your version is more secure and still easy to set up as beginner :D
Thank you for the walk through. Somehow I mangled my second TrueNAS scale installation, and you covered the missing piece in this video. I also learned that certain configuration problems you can't simply fix, you have to create a new share and delete the old one!
1:17 coming form windows, as I understand it a dataset is basically a folder. You will share this folder later, and the share name can be different than the folder name. Also just like windows, the permissions can be set on the share as well as on the folder/files. At this point in time, I prefer to set the permissions (ACL) on the files/folder rather than the share so I dont have to maintain 2 different set of permissions.
Great video, as always. How do I handle nested datasets in TrueNAS Scale? I've tried creating a dataset within another dataset, and it asks for ACL permissions. I grant the permissions to a user along with their corresponding dataset, but in addition to that dataset, another one with the same username is created. I'm having trouble understanding the concept of what's happening here.
it is kinda complicated- scattered around the places where it should be done, but once done and once you get the point, it is easy thanks to your video - thank you
Great explanation mate, the TrueNAS community on Discord really sucks at helping people. You made it easy to follow and I look forward to more of your Scale Videos. I have liked and subscribed.
@@SpaceRexWill do you know what to do with hdd activity every 5 seconds on truenas scale? System Dataset Pool is on boot-pool - ssd, but sound from my Toshiba N300 12TB is still on every 5 seconds. I just wanna keep my jellyfin and that's it. Constant sound from the hdd is driving me and my family crazy, server is in another room, but it is very loud, esspecialy at night ~46dB. No one seems to know how to solve this issue. It is probably flushing of ZFS TXGs to the underlying storage media. Is there any solution to stopping it?
many screens look different at this date installing 23.10. Example: At 4:54 you skip explaining ACL TYPE . My default was SMB/NFSv4 you selected INHERIT. What should it be? ACL MODE is defaulted at RESTRICTED and the ? had some important repercussions of chmod impact. Which should it be? I also have MEDIA SPECIAL BLOCK SIZE set to inherit (0). THANKS!!!!
I am following along with you and I am really happy you are starting at this level because I know next to nothing about TrueNAS Scale, what version of TrueNAS Scale are you using? I am running TrueNAS-SCALE-22-12.0 and some of my displays are different, should I be using a different version?
Thanks for your great vids, after seting up a backup tru replication, suddenly my ACL rights where changed and I had to refer to this vid to get everything back up where I could acces my SMB share on windows...
I am having an issue with my setup. I have 2 SMB shares (H & M) pointing to 2 pools (documents and media). The H share only shows only the docs, the M share shows both the docs and the media. How do I fix the M share to only show the media on its pool and not both pools?
Is there a way to make a folder that you can use and work on in your computers local storage (on multiple computers) and it gets automatically synced with the nas?
I'm able to authenticate into the share in macOS finder, but unable to create a directory or upload files. Any ideas? ACL are set to everyone@ FULL ALLOWED. Also, Edit Filesystem ACL is greyed out with root dataset ACLS cannot be editied.
Hi there, i am struggling to get a SMB share working with the Syncthingdata folder, it is inside of Syncthing Jail, it is possible to do so? Thanks in advance.
I tried TrueNAS, it worked fine with Mac OS X 10.13 (High Sierra), but I had problem with mounting it on my really old MacBook with Mac OS X 10.6.8. I figured that old mac cannot use newer SMB, so I activated legacy SMB. Then I was able to connect the server, but the shared folder was shown empty, despite the fact that I had uploaded some files there. I used the same login. Any ideas why?
I keep getting the error "TrueNAS server must be joined to Active Directory or have at least one local SMB user before creating an SMB share" any ides why ?
When trying to setup the SMB I keep getting "TrueNAS server must be joined to Active Directory or have at least one local SMB user before creating an SMB share" any thoughts?
Excellent video!! Couple questions.... Do you prefer this method to the "Use as Home Share Option" when setting up a user's credentials? Ex.) I have a folder in ds1 -> critical for users which is set as a Home Share which comes with predefined permissions. If so, how do you deal with read permissions from one user to the next with them being in the same group, is this done strictly by file permission ACLs by removing the group (700)?
Hi, thanks for the great tutorial! I've one question since this brings lots of confusion to users when creating ACL on smb shares, When creating the dataset you let ACL type as "inherit" but some people has been saying to use "SMB/NFSv4", what's your opinion about this? Thanks.
How much does the "Workgroup" setting in the SMB Services section (in newer TrueNAS versions than the video) matter? I wouldn't think it impacts much, but the default of "WORKGROUP" did seem to restrict access when one of my PCs was set to a localized workgroup (not "WORKGROUP")
Thanks for well explained tutorial! I'm using win11 and I had to use the server name (TrueNAS) not the ip address (192.168.0.15) at the very last step, so that i could get access to the share from windows "Add Network Drive"
Hello Rex, do you know a way to activate the turbo boost of the cpu inside truenas scale v22.12.2 and passing thru to a windows 10 vm machine ? I am running a epyc 7d12 on a supermicro h11 ssl-i,,, the cpu is running on the base clock of 1.1ghz full time, seems a little slow... even when i run cinebench or cpu-z
Its a great option for 99% of users. It can be 'slow' when you are working with 100GbE ethernet compared to other file systems, but thats really a specific edge case.
9:40 System Settings --> Services --> SMB --> NetBIOS Name ... I did need to change this as this is my second TrueNAS server on this network ... if my understanding is correct
My pool is running two 4tb nas drives that are fairly fast. ~200mbs they are configured in zfs as mirror. Sharing to a dataset in that pool from smb is running at around 20mbs. I think this is too slow for my needs. I wish the truenas gui supported copying files from an external usb device
Why would you edit the file system ACL and not the share level ACL? I'm in the process of researching TrueNAS for a deployment at the office and have found the share level ACL works as its intended.
File level ALC's are much better in my option. You get much better options and control. For share level I set it to everyone, then restrict all access in the file system ACL
Version: TrueNAS-13.0-U6.2 Does not have the same layout as what you have in this older version. So, an update would be wonderful when you have the chance.
Appreciate the clear breakdown, but unfortunately a year later, and already most of the screens look different and many of the option boxes have been renamed or moved, so I've no idea what silly mistake I made to not get it working. Although to be fair there's every chance its a Windows issue since windows 10 won't even see it, and windows 11 shows it but only read only. File sharing should NOT be this difficult
followed every step identically and still can't access, hate TrueNAS this has been 2 years without success using this server except as a read only guest
Guys, Every new version look complete different than on this video. So if you are new and not SUPER expert in NAS. You are screwed. Don`t waste your time.
I'm getting crazy about that. Did everything exactly the same....multiple times, but I cant Login in the end. Windows always tells me my Password is wrong....Don't know what to do.....Password is right, 100% right. gettin so angry
I really don't know why I watch anyone else before you- I wasted about an hour going through other peoples turt and stuck in the same place. 10 min into your video and my issue is gone! Thank you for all your hard work putting these together!!!
More truenas videos please. Your guides are very good.
Working on them!
@@SpaceRexWill thank you
I really want to get docker running. I am going to install a vm I think to running docker and portina.
Great work like always!
We're looking forward to seeing what you create this year!
Cheers!
-TrueNAS Community Team
GOD BLESS THE REX. I just (2/2023) decided to pull my system forward from Core to Scale...and SMB was driving me NUTS trying to figure out the entire ACL deal with SMB shares. Once you explained the groups thing..I found the issue and I was able to mount SMB shares on OSX. THANK YOU !!!!!
These 3 TrueNAS Scale tutorials have been a wonderful way to get started with the OS. I'm a little sad to see that this is the end of the playlist though. You're really good at explaining the different options in an understandable way!
Absolutely fantastic, it's so great when you follow along step by step with a tutorial and everything goes right, and it actually makes sense.
Looking forward to seeing more of your tutorials, thank you.
Thanks. Excellent help. I am a noob and was really struggling. The TrueNas documentation is excelent, but for a complete novice it can be daunting. I was able to review your video multiple times, then go step by step with your video running and pausing and got my NAS up and running. It helps that your videos are well done, organized, and give pragmatic "defaults". This is exactly the help I needed. It doesn't hurt that you are easy on the eyes as well.
I love how you are explaining every step and what it does. I'm new to building nas servers especially on TrueNas Scale system and I would love to see more of this type videos, how to create groups, pools, how to create shared files/folders and how to create private, since truenas scale interface has changed recently. Thank you for all your effort making these videos for us.
My boot drive failed and I had to start from scratch. Your video saved me hours of work! Please keep making them. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this, been searching through all of the TrueNAS forums and following other channel tutorials and so far this is the only one that's worked. Two whole days wasted (and just a little bit of hair, not that I have a great deal left), time for a beer!
I'm new to trueNAS and your videos have been very helpful! I'm looking forward to more in this series. Thanks
Thanks so much! These are hugely helpful. I'm waiting for the last couple parts to come in to finish my first TrueNAS build. These configuration videos are a tremendous help. Much appreciated!
J
Hey thanks! These videos don't tend to get as many views so its nice to know that people are benefiting from them!
@@SpaceRexWill Found your channel ca. 2-3 weeks ago (building my first NAS) and I've been binging ever since. Great content, smooth delivery, no nonsense. Huge thanks for sharing what you've learnt!
Cheers, mate!
Dude thank you, I just followed you step by step and finally got my SMB to work after trying for the last 5 hours!
thank you and great work. Created a new truenas box and forgot how to set smb shares. Your video was the first who popped up.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
It was a little hard because my version looks different, but after one fail it actually worked.
In the video I watched before I found yours was a guy telling me it´s a great idea to not create users or groups and just publishing my data to anyone in my network, I´m glad that your version is more secure and still easy to set up as beginner :D
Thank you, even one year later and that the new version differs, I was able to locate my fault and set-up everything the right way.
This tutorial really helped me and was done in an easy to understand manor. Bravo!
Glad it helped!
Thank you for the walk through. Somehow I mangled my second TrueNAS scale installation, and you covered the missing piece in this video. I also learned that certain configuration problems you can't simply fix, you have to create a new share and delete the old one!
great video. Easy to follow along and definitely appreciate any help with Truenas
1:17 coming form windows, as I understand it a dataset is basically a folder. You will share this folder later, and the share name can be different than the folder name. Also just like windows, the permissions can be set on the share as well as on the folder/files. At this point in time, I prefer to set the permissions (ACL) on the files/folder rather than the share so I dont have to maintain 2 different set of permissions.
Thank you very much! Been struggling to set this up properly and I was able to do it with yoru help!
Thanks for the tutorial! help me a lot! Greetings from Brazil!
The first tutorial that really helped me thanks👍
Hi, yes please more videos about truenas.
I like your channel.
Congrats from Barcelona
Will do!
Nice one! I was getting stuck at the ACL's recursive part! All working now!
Thx a lot for the very comprehensive video. Helped a lot.
Perfect Tutorial! I'm subscribing!
Nice tutorial, helped me out a LOT!, thanks!
Great video, as always. How do I handle nested datasets in TrueNAS Scale? I've tried creating a dataset within another dataset, and it asks for ACL permissions. I grant the permissions to a user along with their corresponding dataset, but in addition to that dataset, another one with the same username is created. I'm having trouble understanding the concept of what's happening here.
Great video! So simple, so useful!
Super good call with the group permission instead of a per-user basis
Great video, helped me out a lot. Cheers!
it is kinda complicated- scattered around the places where it should be done, but once done and once you get the point, it is easy thanks to your video - thank you
Great explanation mate, the TrueNAS community on Discord really sucks at helping people. You made it easy to follow and I look forward to more of your Scale Videos.
I have liked and subscribed.
I love ZFS, but definitely have found the community to be very suck up when it comes to everything must be enterprise level. Glad you like the videos!
@@SpaceRexWill yup, they are really unhelpful. I was at a stage when I said screw this, I'm going to UNRAID because that community is really helpful.
@@SpaceRexWill do you know what to do with hdd activity every 5 seconds on truenas scale? System Dataset Pool is on boot-pool - ssd, but sound from my Toshiba N300 12TB is still on every 5 seconds. I just wanna keep my jellyfin and that's it. Constant sound from the hdd is driving me and my family crazy, server is in another room, but it is very loud, esspecialy at night ~46dB. No one seems to know how to solve this issue. It is probably flushing of ZFS TXGs to the underlying storage media. Is there any solution to stopping it?
Love your helpful videos.
Thanks very much §8-)
cant get my windows share to work keeps telling me my password is wrong even tho it isnt
many screens look different at this date installing 23.10. Example: At 4:54 you skip explaining ACL TYPE . My default was SMB/NFSv4 you selected INHERIT. What should it be? ACL MODE is defaulted at RESTRICTED and the ? had some important repercussions of chmod impact. Which should it be? I also have MEDIA SPECIAL BLOCK SIZE set to inherit (0). THANKS!!!!
I followed your instructions but Windows won't let me map the network drive, it says connection refused. What am I doing wrong?
I am following along with you and I am really happy you are starting at this level because I know next to nothing about TrueNAS Scale, what version of TrueNAS Scale are you using? I am running TrueNAS-SCALE-22-12.0 and some of my displays are different, should I be using a different version?
Coming from unraid it's a learning curve for me
That is the right version! I recently updated without any issues
@@SpaceRexWill So your next video will be using the 22.12.0 screens, which are a little different from 22.02.2
yes! thats what I am currently running. I think I have one filmed still on 22.02.2
Nice walkthough - quick note, 2 months on and the UI has already been updated and some options are now in different places! 🙅
Thanks for this video. Subscribed.
Very good video! Thank you!
Thanks for your great vids, after seting up a backup tru replication, suddenly my ACL rights where changed and I had to refer to this vid to get everything back up where I could acces my SMB share on windows...
I'm late to the party -- but thanks so much for this!
Thanks! This is really helpful.
I am having an issue with my setup. I have 2 SMB shares (H & M) pointing to 2 pools (documents and media). The H share only shows only the docs, the M share shows both the docs and the media. How do I fix the M share to only show the media on its pool and not both pools?
Thank you. While the interface and options have changed a bit, it's 95% the same.
Hi, how can I configure my Cloudflare Tunnel to have a subdomain in order to have access to my SBM when I'm not home?
Amazing. Thank you!
Is there a way to make a folder that you can use and work on in your computers local storage (on multiple computers) and it gets automatically synced with the nas?
I'm able to authenticate into the share in macOS finder, but unable to create a directory or upload files. Any ideas? ACL are set to everyone@ FULL ALLOWED. Also, Edit Filesystem ACL is greyed out with root dataset ACLS cannot be editied.
Hi there, i am struggling to get a SMB share working with the Syncthingdata folder, it is inside of Syncthing Jail, it is possible to do so? Thanks in advance.
6:06 If you want to be able to do sudo, add the user to the wheel group. Never to the root-group.
I tried TrueNAS, it worked fine with Mac OS X 10.13 (High Sierra), but I had problem with mounting it on my really old MacBook with Mac OS X 10.6.8. I figured that old mac cannot use newer SMB, so I activated legacy SMB. Then I was able to connect the server, but the shared folder was shown empty, despite the fact that I had uploaded some files there. I used the same login. Any ideas why?
I keep getting the error "TrueNAS server must be joined to Active Directory or have at least one local SMB user before creating an SMB share" any ides why ?
When trying to setup the SMB I keep getting "TrueNAS server must be joined to Active Directory or have at least one local SMB user before creating an SMB share"
any thoughts?
I set the dataset permissions and the share permissions but I'm still getting a "Windows cannot access" error when trying to reach the shared folder.
A newbie question, Is a pool and vdev the same? Once I add drives to a pool the vdev is created. I can start creating datasets.
Why does the ADMIN group default to NO for Allows sudo commands (under credentials>groups)?
Excellent video!! Couple questions.... Do you prefer this method to the "Use as Home Share Option" when setting up a user's credentials? Ex.) I have a folder in ds1 -> critical for users which is set as a Home Share which comes with predefined permissions. If so, how do you deal with read permissions from one user to the next with them being in the same group, is this done strictly by file permission ACLs by removing the group (700)?
Hi, thanks for the great tutorial! I've one question since this brings lots of confusion to users when creating ACL on smb shares, When creating the dataset you let ACL type as "inherit" but some people has been saying to use "SMB/NFSv4", what's your opinion about this?
Thanks.
Im having problems, it says windows cannot access \\TRUENAS\Family (I use family because im using it for my family)
How much does the "Workgroup" setting in the SMB Services section (in newer TrueNAS versions than the video) matter? I wouldn't think it impacts much, but the default of "WORKGROUP" did seem to restrict access when one of my PCs was set to a localized workgroup (not "WORKGROUP")
Thanks for well explained tutorial! I'm using win11 and I had to use the server name (TrueNAS) not the ip address (192.168.0.15) at the very last step, so that i could get access to the share from windows "Add Network Drive"
Hello Rex, do you know a way to activate the turbo boost of the cpu inside truenas scale v22.12.2 and passing thru to a windows 10 vm machine ? I am running a epyc 7d12 on a supermicro h11 ssl-i,,, the cpu is running on the base clock of 1.1ghz full time, seems a little slow... even when i run cinebench or cpu-z
Awesome, thanks!
thank you got mine working
where did the SMB IP come from? it wasnt there, and then poof, it was type in
When I log into windows map network drive, it doesn't accept my username nor password.
Is there a windows tutorial for this?
Great Video
Hi SpaceRex! Good vid as always! But I am wondering, is TrueNAS Scale a good option for pure NVMe NAS, or should I use unraid or something? Thanks!
Its a great option for 99% of users. It can be 'slow' when you are working with 100GbE ethernet compared to other file systems, but thats really a specific edge case.
On my Truenas it will shows error The file name is too long. How to solve can you help me
tell me, how did you make sure that there were not tiles but lines in Storage?
This was an update where they changed the user interface
It's unnecessarily complicated
For crying out loud... A dev who designed this has to let the users feel stupid
How to do in using username and password to certain folders?
9:40 System Settings --> Services --> SMB --> NetBIOS Name ... I did need to change this as this is my second TrueNAS server on this network ... if my understanding is correct
My pool is running two 4tb nas drives that are fairly fast. ~200mbs they are configured in zfs as mirror. Sharing to a dataset in that pool from smb is running at around 20mbs. I think this is too slow for my needs. I wish the truenas gui supported copying files from an external usb device
Why would you edit the file system ACL and not the share level ACL? I'm in the process of researching TrueNAS for a deployment at the office and have found the share level ACL works as its intended.
File level ALC's are much better in my option. You get much better options and control. For share level I set it to everyone, then restrict all access in the file system ACL
Thank you so much.
thanks I'm appreciating :BR:
This does not match TrueNAS version 13 and did not address the issues that I am having.
There are two versions of truenas: CORE and SCALE
They are completely different
@@SpaceRexWill thank you for clarifying. Can you please direct me to setting up TrueNAS core?
Thank you
anyone know a way to set it up so that you dont need a password?
Version: TrueNAS-13.0-U6.2
Does not have the same layout as what you have in this older version.
So, an update would be wonderful when you have the chance.
Thnx!
Thank You................
Appreciate the clear breakdown, but unfortunately a year later, and already most of the screens look different and many of the option boxes have been renamed or moved, so I've no idea what silly mistake I made to not get it working. Although to be fair there's every chance its a Windows issue since windows 10 won't even see it, and windows 11 shows it but only read only. File sharing should NOT be this difficult
This needs to be updated
Thank you when i start acls
My list has many things in it like
Group
Default feoup
Mask
Default mask etx
Not sure y my list is so pouplated
thanks
followed every step identically and still can't access, hate TrueNAS this has been 2 years without success using this server except as a read only guest
Good call and make sense to move to this. Now that Synology is totally stupid for almost anything.
Your windows look different than mine.
add dataset option doesn't exist.
Just for me Edit filesystem ACL is greyed out?
Guys, Every new version look complete different than on this video. So if you are new and not SUPER expert in NAS. You are screwed. Don`t waste your time.
I'm getting crazy about that. Did everything exactly the same....multiple times, but I cant Login in the end. Windows always tells me my Password is wrong....Don't know what to do.....Password is right, 100% right. gettin so angry
same :/
Dude, great videos, but.....Breathe!
This tutorial is defunct - most of the options have changed, and trying to follow it, does not result in a working share ...
Do you have a link to a new tutorial?
@@teddyruxpin3811
sadly I do not, I gave-up and installed unraid
@@teddyruxpin3811 This worked for me tonight to set things up on the latest version of TrueNAS Scale. No new tutorial needed.
nice video but did not work.