I’m new to TN, just deployed it to play with in my home environment. Will use it for Time Machine and Plex mainly.
I use LDAP in the cloud with Jumpcloud to maintain all my users and I understand that samba auth has been removed from the latest version.
I also believe that 24.04 was the last version with that functionality. Is there a way to install the older version of the solution and keep the pools I’ve already set up?
Any major bugs or drawbacks with 24.04 that would make it a bad idea to regress?
Any likelihood we’ll get samba auth back at any time in the future? LDAP is still a widely used technology and it seems like a step in the wrong direction to pull it. Not everyone has an AD server handy. Just put big red letters on the samba auth preference that it’s not as secure as other methods so use at your own risk.
On a related note, does AD run on anything besides Windows? I have zero knowledge of that part of the computing world. I’ve been in Apple land for nearly 40 years.
You can configure LDAP, and I have done so. But the samba auth has been removed so I can’t use my LDAP users to authenticate shares.
This is a major bummer as I don’t want to have to recreate all my users either locally or set up and maintain an ADC and recreate them there.
If you haven’t updated your pool to a newer version, try the Boot Environments and see if you have 24.04 listed. Boot into a previous one. You won’t get any updates or security fixes once it’s EOL.
You can try doing a backup of your configuration and secret seeds.
Download 24.04 iso, put on usb and boot. It would be a fresh install on the boot device. If you have a spare boot device, maybe temporarily install spare and test install and reloading the configuration. It may work and see your pool, etc.
If it doesn’t, you power down, go back to original boot device and you should be where you are now.
Thanks for the info. I’ll delve into it when I have a few spare minutes.
I actually have another computer that I just decommissioned, I could install 24.04 on that one and move my drives to it I suppose.
Backing up the config and secret seeds (those sound fun) can be found in the documentation online?
It’s unlikely that installaing an older version will help you, since you’ve created your pools with 24.10, and 24.04 does not support the zfs version that 24.10 uses. If you did not copy data to your pools yet, you can simply destroy the pools created on 24.10, install 24.05 and recreate the pools.
I already copied my Plex library over to it.
I signed up for a free Entra ID account last night.
I’m going to follow along with this article and see if I can get users syncing from there to TrueNAS, but it’s still not ideal unless Entra offers RADIUS server.
So I followed along with this article and have an IPSec VPN connection up and running between my pfSense router and my Entra Domain.
My issue is I still can’t ping the domain from within a shell on TN, and of course trying to connect AD fail with a “possible DNS” error.
