Hi all,
I am trying to connect my TrueNAS to an SMB share so that I can access it on my windows computer, sounds easy right? Well its been a pain since I first installed TrueNAS.
I currently have a user set up with SMB sharing allowed and since this is my home network I’ve done everything I can under the sun to make it as least restrictive as possible. When I try to mount, I get the error from windows saying that I don’t have permission. When I edit the ACL permissions, I try to add my user directly and grant them perms, but I get the error saying that I need to give them the ability to traverse through /mnt/Pool. The problem is that this is my root directory. When I try to edit the ACL perms there, I can not because TrueNAS won’t let me. Its a circular problem that I can’t figure out how to fix. Please let me know if there is anything I’m missing, or any information you need to know to properly diagnose.
The root dataset isn’t meant to be used for sharing. Create a dataset underneath, and use that as your SMB share.
Ah, this means that you probably followed one of those influencer youtube videos that told you to run chmod 700 on /mnt/Pool. That action basically breaks permissions across your entire NAS. The author of the particular one I’m thinking of never pulled it down or fixed it IIRC (there’s basically no incentive structure for people to actually fix wrong information on the internet 
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Post output of stat /mnt/Pool (running from shell).
Usually fixing is as simple as running chmod 755 /mnt/Pool. If you know the source of the bad advice, feel free to leave negative feedback on it.
From the looks of it, you are correct
root@truenas[~]# stat /mnt/Pool
File: /mnt/Pool
Size: 7 Blocks: 17 IO Block: 512 directory
Device: 0,56 Inode: 34 Links: 3
Access: (0700/drwx------) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2025-09-04 16:04:51.295511649 -0700
Modify: 2025-12-05 21:56:06.533247864 -0800
Change: 2025-12-05 21:56:06.533247864 -0800
Birth: 2025-09-04 16:04:51.295511649 -0700
