Is there a file management system in TrueNAS Scale?

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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!

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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:

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There is the filebrowser app. It works very well.
Here is a tutorial for it:

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