Hey! trueNAS noob here! im trying to access my TrueNAS SMB shared pool from my windows 11 PCs. they’re all on the same LAN network SMB client is enabled on all windows 11 pcs password is disabled on the SMB pool in trueNAS. however whenever i try to access my truenas server and it asks for username and password. when i enter the username and password for my truenas server in the form it says invalid credintals. i’m pretty sure i enter them correctly. i only have windows 11 pcs no macs no win 11 or earlier and no linux/ubunto so i cant test on any other os other than win 11.
That might be a problem. i need continuous 24/7 access to the NAS server as the other computers’ software access files and folders on the NAS server as the server acts as a centralized library for assets dependencies and projects for multiple software on multiple win 11 PCs requiring the NAS storage disk to be mapped as a network disk on all the PCs. therefore entering the NAS password and username each time each software wants to access earch file/folder on each pc can become a real problem real fast. is there a way to make that not a big headache. cause the way i just mentioned is NOT an option
i tried adding a password to the user called root and i enabled microsoft account in the checkbox but when i tried to access the server from a pc uusing the username root and the password it still says invalid creditials.what am i doing wrong?
Don’t use root. That’s the mistake.
Create a new local user with a password and give him rights to the shares via ACLs.
In Windows use:
cmdkey /add:TRUENAS /user:username /pass:password
where TRUENAS is the Netbios name of your server, and username and password are for the account you just created. This stores the account so users don’t need to type it in every time. This is a per-user setting on Windows, you have to do this for each user on each machine, unless you have a Windows domain, where this is tored on the domain controller.
