I’m a newbie switching from synology to TRUENAS. However, in passing, many of the conveniences in synology are not here and that’s why it makes me think. For example:; Adding a user and assigning SMB permissions to it is much more difficult than in Synology. What is the obstacle to making this ea…

Ah. but for me more “user friendly” means less flexibility in a technical aspect. like other posters mention might want to checkout other NAS such as UNRAID.

User friendly generally means less flexibility, security and reliability tools. Consumer vs professional-grade solutions.

Hi @sene , I was in the same boot less than a year ago, moving from 10 years on a Synology to TrueNAS. In th beginning it was tough and I almost gave up but now I have almost everything I want running as I would like and once the learning curve passed I’m not sure I would come back to Synology. M…

Very important and good findings. It was enlightening for me. I hope the truenas team evaluates what you wrote. (They’re probably working on making it better, too.) We want to see a much more user-friendly Truenas without sacrificing professionalism. Thank you for your time

[image] slay425: I really wish TrueNAS community has more apps and that they have the right parameters to make them work out of the box, if I could choose I would get ride of all TrueCharts apps. Have a read for the roadmap for TrueNAS 24.10 (Electric Eel) with regards to Apps - we’re going t…

We generally get advice not to open truena outside. maybe a user will use it as auxiliary or secondary repository and not as Main repository. So not for vital data. It’s like a “common area” for in-house and remote people. In this case, it needs to resort to a solution such as ftp, sftp, tftp. Ther…

A good approach is to setup a vpn for access into your network. There is no reason to expose any of TrueNAS’ default services to the internet.

[image] Stux: setup a vpn for access into your network Or in cases where a VPN cannot be used, Cloudflare Access is also very easy to set up and provides similar levels of security (this is what I use as I often like to check in on things while working, and we only have general web-browsing t…

Thanks, that’s super interesting. With full docker (including docker compose) support, this will be unlimited possibilities. I managed to install a couple Docker manually but it’s quite hard to get all the right parameters.

If you have a webservice on it, how can you not expose it to outside?? At least the NPM reverse proxy must be exposed to 80/443 to be able to give access to web services (Wordpress, Paperless, SearXNG, Invidious, Jellyfin, …), even Nextcloud is barely useless without external access. Am I doing it …

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sfatula June 15, 2024, 1:26am 45

Of course it’s a DNS name. But when you’re coming in via VPN, it’s the same local IP address.

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