Hi, what is the recommended method to create smb shares for each of my users? I mean what dataset type to choose, what smb share parameters, etc.
I ask this, because since 24.04 dragonfish, the method described in the docs is listed as legacy. See Setting Up SMB Home Shares | TrueNAS Documentation Hub
Why are you choosing Home Shares? How many users are you setting up shares for?
I am not choosing home shares definitely… I am searching what’s the recommended way.
I have 4-5 users in a small business environment. Users are local truenas users, no active directory in use.
Do you recommend typlical smb datasets/shares with permissions manually set for each user?
Unless you specifically want to set up Home Shares, just create SMB shares for your users by following the instructions in:
Ready the entire article for a full understanding but you can follow the summary procedure and the detailed sections in this article to set up shares for your users.
Ok, so basic shares with desired permissions for each user is your suggestion.
But when one would need to setup a home share?
I have already read the doc you linked. Thanks.
My understanding is this (Home Shares) is or should be a deprecated feature but I’ll need to confirm this. the plan is to deprecate this article as it can lead to confusion.
I don’t understand why there is no more explanation given to this deprecation.
Ok this is gonna be a legacy future, this is not recommended any more. Ok great. Then there schould be alternative answer presented to this line or a link to something.
What schould be doing then?
new dataset for 10 users. How can it be auto created? Just a simple smb share and I have to put in every user with its own dataset? with its own permission?
Trying to understand the decision? Is it because companies are more relying on cloud storage ms enterprise onedrive.
It is informative to give more text
We’re working on updating docs in this area (this week actually), but this might point you in the right direction:
