I was on FreeNAS 11.2U7 and I created an SMB share of the root of a pool. There were several directories (not datasets) created after this. Now I have upgraded to TrueNAS, imported the pool, and I cannot get the shares to work. Windows says the password is incorrect every time. Im virtualized with t…

In freenas it was possible to use the root dataset and root as user for smb shares. That has been changed to improve security. You now need a dedicated smb user and have to create a child dataset for smb shares. Then you have to move all your data from the root dataset to the child dataset. Since yo…

Thank you. Should I just use mv?

Yes use mv, but do it in a midnight commander session so it keeps running in the background and doesn’t stop when the shell or ssh session is cut

Ty sir. Running now. Since I got you here, I have a single drive that I mirrored from a failing single drive vdev and it has some zfs errors after the resilver and removal of the bad drive. Since I cannot recover those files, how do I remove those bad files and flag the pool as healthy again?

from shell if you use sudo zpool status -v it should tell you which files are affected. But if it’s metadata that’s affected it’s propably a destroy pool and rebuild from backup szenario. Hard to know without the output of the command i posted…

just movies and music. i rm’d them and the list tunred into some variables so im running a scrub now. hoping that’ll make the list empty instead. i dont know about the unhealthy flag tho

Scrub cleared the list, then zpool clear marked the pool as healthy again. Thank you again.

Setting up the new SMB share and: FAILED [EPERM] Filesystem Persmission on path /mnt/vol1 prevent access for group “mygroup” to the path /mnt/vol1/Media. This may be fixed by granting the aforementioned group execute permissions on the path: /mnt/vol1. Is it jacked up from when I shared the root …

according to this post [image] Filesystem permissions on path /mnt/MainPool prevent access for user "apps" TrueNAS General I have an SMB where I store my movies on which was created before I migrated from CORE to SCALE. Now, I am moving my Jellyfin to my server, so I set t…

Shared root of drive, upgraded, now shares broken

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LarsR September 27, 2025, 10:07pm 14

according to this post

yes it can be solved by chmod

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Shared root of drive, upgraded, now shares broken

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