Migrated from Core and now all folders are visible to everyone in group

[Esteban_Baquero]

I was using Truenas Core, have a pool with 3 different datasets, ie mom/dad/son
dad was would view his folder and so would the rest, updated to Scale and now everyone can see all 3 folders but only access their own (which is fine) but what might have changed that made them discoverable ?
total noob…

[bacon]

Scale no longer hides inaccessible folders. There isn’t a setting in TrueNAS to bring the old behaviour back (although there is a samba setting that can achieve something similar). If you create one share for each user you can hide the shares using Access Based Share Enumeration and the share ACL.

You can find more information in the following thread:

Difference in SMB Share Behaviour Between CORE and SCALE

I’ve encountered a difference in SMB share behaviour between CORE and SCALE, particularly when using Active Directory (AD) for permission management with nested AD groups. Scenario In CORE: Create a dataset named Shared123. Assign permissions: testgroup-t: Permission: Read Flags: No Inherit testgroup-m: Permission: Modify Flags: Inherit For Directory Access Control: To restrict access to a subdirectory Shared123/Finance so that only specific users can access it without seeing the …

[Esteban_Baquero]

Thanks for the link !! Going to give this a try :" Ok so it looks like you can drop this into the SMB Global to cover all shares if anyone wants to do this.

1. From the shell run cli
2. service smb update smb_options=“hide unreadable = yes”