Problem/Justification
(What is the problem you are trying to solve with this feature/improvement or why should it be considered?)
An internal file manger in truenas with the ACL functionality like the Asustor Inc NAS has would benefit a lot of users. Then the NAS admins have a clear visibility all the folders in the system and does not need to login to a windows machine to control ACL in to individual folders. Therefore they can give access to folders or even specific files inside folders within TrueNAS GUI. Asustor ADM can even play mp4 files and do many things on the web GUI it self…
Impact
(How is this feature going to impact all TrueNAS users? What are the benefits and advantages? Are there disadvantages?)
Admins can give access to folders or even specific files inside folders within TrueNAS GUI
Admins won’t have to login to a windows computer all the time to control ACL
Clear visibility of the file tree
I don’t see any disadvantages of this except that the NAS superadmin can view all the data.
User Story
(Please give a short description on how you envision some user taking advantage of this feature, what are the steps a user will follow to accomplish it)
It would make all the NAS admins lives easier. Otherwise they have to do this by loging in to a windows computer (especially ACL editing)
If this feature is provisioned then the NAS admins just have to navigate to the required folder within the web GUI and click and just edit ACL even for a specific file nested within several folders…
Thanks for the reply guys, but the features that I’m searching for are different from those of the ones in the filemanager container such as controlling ACL through the file manager…
Yea, it’s still on my backlog / feature wish-list to add eventually into SCALE. Ideally when we do it, the WebUI file manager could respect SMB/NFS ACLs and be full-featured in that sense, so it plays well with clients using the other protocols.
That doesn’t make it particularly easier I’d suspect. You’re still having to log into a desktop somewhere, be it hardware or virtual. I think the real ask is to have something web-based and skip the RDP no?
One approach would be to simply show folders in the existing datasets view.
That’d probably take care of the need to set permissions on things (for example, this is very hard/impossible for Mac users)
A more advanced version could be like a graphical version of mc. Ie, an Orthodox File Manager with the two panes for operating to/from. There are lots of examples btw, but this could allow all sorts of capabilities, including the ability to download to/from other servers.
Many NAS operating systems, like Synology DSM, QNAP, and Ugreen, offer internal file managers with ACL control. Adding this feature to TrueNAS would simplify access management and give admins better control directly from the TrueNAS GUI, without needing a separate system.
