Montecrysto
Cadet
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Hi folks!
I just started to learn how to use FreeNAS, the best practices of the many things you can do with it and, while toying with my new creature, I asked myself (and tried to find the answers on the web) these three things:
Don't know if that may help you personalising your responses, but this is the hierarchy I'm planning for my pool:
If all of this is not recommended or not possible my backup plan is to scrap all the private/public thing and simply have the datasets under the root (p0) and share them acconrdingly as needed (so SMB every single of them but /backups, which will be manually shared as per share type requirements).
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Thanks for your time, hope all of this actually made sense and wasn't answered elsewhere.
Also sorry for my english, I'm not a native speaker.
I just started to learn how to use FreeNAS, the best practices of the many things you can do with it and, while toying with my new creature, I asked myself (and tried to find the answers on the web) these three things:
- It's better to share the "root" dataset or all of its children? E.g. pool/users vs pool/users/user1, pool/users/user2
- Can I have a dataset with UNIX/Mac as share type inside a dataset with Windows share type which is being shared with SMB? If yes, are there any problems I may occur in?
- What are the differences between creating a home share via the webUI during the setup process of a SMB share versus manually creating a dataset (allowing me to manage their quotas) with all its users subfolders and then linking each one of them to the specific user? The only difference I can think of is that with this last one method you can see other users folders, but you can still avoid it disabling the "Browsable to Network Clients" checkbox, can't you?
Don't know if that may help you personalising your responses, but this is the hierarchy I'm planning for my pool:
- p0
- p0/private
This dataset will contain many other datasets with different permissions, as pointed below. Question n° 1 is about sharing this folder or its subfolders.
- p0/private/backups
This dataset will contain at least one time machine backup, so an AFP share with MAC share type, which lead me to ask question n° 2.
- p0/private/downloads
This dataset will be used to store downloads from a VM (outside FreeNAS), so it's the only one which will have read/write permissions, while all the others will just have the read one.
- p0/private/shares
Only the family users will be able to write/read on this dataset.
- p0/private/users
This dataset will contains all the users private folders; question n° 3 is about how to manage the home directories.
- p0/public
This dataset will be shared among all the users and will be used as a way to exchange data.
If all of this is not recommended or not possible my backup plan is to scrap all the private/public thing and simply have the datasets under the root (p0) and share them acconrdingly as needed (so SMB every single of them but /backups, which will be manually shared as per share type requirements).
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Thanks for your time, hope all of this actually made sense and wasn't answered elsewhere.
Also sorry for my english, I'm not a native speaker.