I installed FreeNAS on a machine several years ago and created a dataset pool to use as a NAS. I loaded a good amount of data on it, shut off the machine and left it for several years. Recently, I tried to boot it back up, updated it (at the time to version 12) and all of a sudden, I could no longer…

Do you have a separate user created to ‘own’ the data on TrueNAS. I don’t know if ‘root’ is currently allowed as an owner and user. (i just checked my root account and Samba authentication is set to FALSE where my other user has TRUE) Try creating a new user and group on TrueNAS and allow the new…

“root” is no longer a permitted SMB user account as of TrueNAS 12 (11.3 we started phasing this in IIRC).

Alright, so I went through the full tutorial linked there and got the same issues. I created a new user (“admin”) and a usergroup along with a password. I tried accessing the share through file explorer on my windows 11 home version computer and after typing in the credential for the admin user, it …

If you go to the Accounts, User page and look at ‘admin’ properties. Do you have Samba Authentication = true Are you able to log into the admin account on TrueNAS directly, like in SSH or Console? If you need to make changes are you stopping and restarting the SMB server afterwards? Have you tri…

[image] MisFitz: @oxyde That dataset shows that exact path when I open up the settings. See the screenshot above. Is that how it should look or did I do something wrong? I did also try to create a share to a child directory and had the same error. Making a simple “find the difference” from ho…

Actually having guest access enabled on a share can cause authentication failures from Windows: [image] SMB Signing and Guest Authentication Understanding why guests and SMB signing don't mix.

Yes it is. Yes for SSH. Yes I have restarted SMB fro TrueNAS each time. Yes and I still had issues so I have since deleted the share. That’s correct. I only have one user on Windows, and it is not named “admin” like TrueNas. [image] Windows 11 Cannot Access SMB Shared Pool Orig…

[image] MisFitz: @oxyde Understood. I made each of those changes as well but still no luck. Same issue unfortunately. Are there any other areas you see that you think may cause issues? I’m really starting be confused, because from the screen you post i really don’t see anything strange about …

Oh. I just saw your share ACL. You’ve literally denied access to everyone of course you’re having access problems :slight_smile:

Windows 11 Cannot Access SMB Shared Pool Originally Created on FreeNAS 11

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oxyde July 8, 2024, 5:37am 3

Go to Storage → Windows Share and create/configure you Dataset1 (or whatever name you want for the SMB) with the full path /mnt/Fitz-nss/Dataset1

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