Hi everyone. Thanks for any help. This is my first attempt with NAS so I am sorry if my questions are not worded correctly. I am still trying to wrap my brain around everything and I got the flu mid setup so my knowledge is disjointed.
My main question is, is there a file manager in trueNAS Scale? I believe I set up my pool/dataset correctly for SMB share. When I hop onto my Windows machine I see the drive I set up for my pool (ipXXXX.XXX.XX.XX driveX) that I can add folders and my movies into. I also see under NETWORK a TRUENAS system I can’t connect to with my truenas_admin password (I have enabled networking in Windows). Are these two the same? I just want to make sure the movies I am adding are in the correct dataset. I believe it is because I see storage being used back in TrueNAS datasets tab. Not being able to connect to TRUENAS through Windows network is confusing/concerning me.
Ultimately I want this be a Jellyfin server. Right now it isn’t seeing the movies I have but that is another problem for tomorrow. I mostly want to know if my basics are correct. Thanks again!
TrueNAS itself does not have a filebrowser built-in, you can access your data via an SMB share for example. For this you should create a new user and then give them access to the dataset / pool you want to share. Then you can mount the share in windows and log in with your created user.
Here is a tutorial that explains each step in detail:
and here is a tutorial from the TrueNAS docs:
here are also the long SMB docs if you want more info about the whole thing:
iX agreed, many years ago, to put a GUI file manager into TrueNAS, but somehow it has yet to actually happen. It’ll likely show up at some point before the heat death of the universe, but I don’t know that I’d want to bet on it any sooner than that.
LOL in which case it’ll be a race against me finding a universal file manager which suits me and my linux boxes and TN and a few other bits and pieces, and/or me actually learning and remembering the mc commands and keystrokes and so on so I can install it everywhere!
Running just fine for me. You most likely either have a permissions issue or you’re trying to mount your root /mnt/ dataset in additional storage (use /mnt/DATASET as the host path instead).
FileBrowser doesn’t work on the current community version of Truenas 25, as of my writing of this post. I have attempted with multiple permutations of the process and the same thing happens each time. (It does that “get to 80% done and then blurt out a deleterious stack-trace to a file that says absolutely nothing useful,” thing that Truenas’s docker apps seem to do very frequently if the template or compose file is incorrect for some reason.)
This is no more useful of a problem report than it was the first time you made it–in particular, that “stack-trace that says absolutely nothing useful,” while ugly (and yes, TrueNAS’ error reporting is pretty poor if it’s so easy to get it to spit one out), often identifies exactly what the problem is. But since you haven’t shared it, we can’t say anything in response other than “it works for me” (as two others have).
I have found that the install finally does work, when I go back and 1) create a user and populate that user id in place of the default user id, which I don’t generally need to do, 2) setup Host Path ACL from within the radio-button, or else it will ignore that same ACLs when set outside this dialog, again something I have never seen before.
Maybe I just have an odd install of the current upgrade, and it is behaving inconsistently.
However, after getting the docker image to finally deploy, the webui is saying my password is incorrect.
At this point the novelty has warn off and I don’t really see the point in dealing with such a headache when this entire process will probably become currupted or otherwise fail at some point in six months and I have to go back and remember how I fixed it in the first place, like with NextCloud installs on Truenas. (I just ended up building my own VM and then containerizing it so that I could avoid this same process loop for NextCloud.)
The filebrowser app, i.e. webui, shouldn’t be this weird and hard to get up and running.
It should “just work” and these docker images seem to be inconsistent in my experience, after they removed Kubernetes. (The password was saved to my password manager so it is not being fat-fingered.)
To clarify, you’re unable to login to the TrueNAS webgui?
Perhaps you inadvertently changed your admin user when you were creating the new user? The password doesn’t just change by itself.
You could just have used the apps user (568) as DjP-iX described in the other thread, this account is built-in and exists on all installs.
Edit: In case you do indeed mean the TrueNAS Webgui, you can reset the admin password using the Console setup menu. This menu is available if you attach a monitor and keyboard to the TrueNAS server. It’s option 4) Change local administrator password.
The referenced statement was intended to reference the docker deployment, not the primary Truenas deployment or gui. The FileBrowser webui says my previously saved credentials for the created user are incorrect.
