You are correct, TureNAS is not the most intuitive, but from what I read it is one of the best. In my defense, I’m nearly 80 and a bit of a grouch. Seems in my day, my personal logic was much more common. Today, all the regular people seem to have a different slant on that logic. It tends to annoy me, but that’s my problem and usually I get over it. I don’t have a large knowledge of NAS and need to become better at it. So, I’m not apposed to starting out and then starting over a few times. It is a challenge, even thou I may belly ache a little.
Hoping today to set up a pool and maybe a data set. I’ve been reading about them and still have not understood all the details and choices. I’m sure that I’ll try some of it and maybe will have to start over. Pardon me if I bark a little, Thanks for the help, and probably will ask for more, Mike.
Well…. today I have some time to work on this NAS. The last few days were used up in working on the Ingersol vertical mill. Anyway here is what I did;
Logged into the GUI
Selected storage; selected Create Pool
Set a pool name; set vdev as sda, sdc and named it.
Set the layout as MIRRORED, max disk size, width as 2, vdevs and 1
There was only on choice for the last three,
Next there was log, spare, cache, Metadata etal. I didn’t have a choice here. I think it was because there were no other drives for these options. Lastly, I selected Create Pool. All seemed to work fine.
Next a dataset was made. I picked dataset rather than zvol, because I wanted SMB.
Selected add dataset; named it; datapreset = SMB; then save. I dialog box came up and stated that SMB service was not running. I selected start it. Then I was asked about share ACL permissions. Here is where I’m a little lost. Don’t know what this is. It did say I can set them later. This is as far as I got today. Is TrueNAS ready to go? What are the nest steps? I suppose there is some more reading I need to do, THanks, Mike
One other thing, when into the Ubuntu File Manager and found that the TrueNAS was listed. It asked me for a username, domain and password. I entered something but it didn’t work. DO I have to set up a user? to make this work? Mike
ACLs is how you grant your users different access right to the share. Maybe not all your users don’t need write access to share A but need it for share B. That’s where acls come into play.
OK, since I’m the only one that can use this, I’m the only user. I need to make a share for me that will work from multiple computers on my network, Mike
Well…. I’ll be….. I was trying to follow the documentation and was playing around with User quotas, which probably was the wrong thing to do for setting up a user. Then I stumbled on credentials and users. This is were I could setup the user and it worked. I did set up two users and want to delete on of them, so far I can not find where that is done. Also the documentation talks about backing up TrueNAS and copying the configuration. Is that something I should do? Thanks for the help, Mike
I am not sure if TrueNAS is the best - underneath all the fancy stuff is SMB.
if you want ease of configuration and getting up and running, try fnOS → a few clicks and you are ready to go. it does have its own downside as well, being closed source.
if you want to experiment, you can set up SMB on a linux install → that’s fairly easy as well and need a few command lines and you are ready to go. the Ubuntu guide on SMB is very good: Install and Configure Samba | Ubuntu. the google AI version summarized it up too.
both fnOS and Linux SMB will be much faster and youtube has tons of tutorials on them. unless you have to use truenas, i would give them a try.
In the TrueNAS docs and here on the forum you will always find the recommendation to backup your data to allow restoration after a deletion or failure - same as with any computer system storing Important data (however so defined in any particular case).
With respect to configuration saving - yes you should do that to allow fast recovery after any disruption or reload of the TrueNAS OS - this is made very easy in TrueNAS: System > General , Manage Configuration (Button - top RHS) >Download File.
No need to image anything in reguards to the boot drive/pool.
The config backup management is at System → General Settings → Manage Configuration button
Save (download) a copy of the config file. If you need to replace the boot drive just reinstall Truenas (same version as the config file was saved under) and then restore the configuration file. You system is back up and working.
Always make a fresh config backup before updating (it is an option you have to accept or refuse in order to perform an system update. Always make a new config backup after an system update so the config is sure to match the system version.
I think the latest supports ZFS. but I haven’t tried it - i’m still on a fairly old version. and quite frankly i haven’t seen evidence that ZFS is a big performance factor.
…from China. Hard pass.
understood. that’s why so many people don’t wear socks / underwear, use iphones, or watch tvs, drive cars, or even use the internet, with all the chinese equipment in there.
Deleting a user. Back into credentials - users - click on the user you want to delete. Top right corner under add you will see edit and delete. you have to click on the user first if not you will only see edit
