Having the ability to tweak/add SMB parameters in shares (SCALE)

Feature Requests
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Case

For security purposes, I set

System > Services > SMB > Advanced Settings

to File Mask 0600 and Directory Mask 0700. These SMB settings provide minimal privileges to users as global default.

Issue

Unfortunately share-specific customizations are not possible wit TrueNAS SCALE anymore. Adjusting settings on CLI in my opinion is an insufficient alternative:

  • quite cumbersome and error-prone
  • A change seems to overwrite local config, instead of incrementally appending changes.
  • I would consider share-specific SMB settings a standard case.
  • There is no way to overwrite the global SMB default File Mask and Directory Mask - neither file_mode/dir_mode from client, nor ACL defaults in TrueNAS UI work.

Suggestion

For share-specific needs, we should be able to customize create mask and directory mask - as well as other parameters - under

Shares > x > Edit > Advanced Options > Additional Parameters String

I understand, developers received several user requests due to inproperly configured SMB parameters. Hence suggestion is:

  • Just display a big red warning when entering “Additional Parameters String”, with additional hint, that no further support will be provided by developers.
  • Provide an “Advanced user” flag in global TrueNAS settings, which makes this field editable again (as used by other applications).

Please give us the ability back to configure SMB settings according to own needs, using inherent features already available from Samba.

Thanks and kind regards

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