Yes, the manual is a good start. The trouble is following guides in an attempt to not have to educate oneself fully on a very deep and involving topic, when truthfully my hope is to "set it, and forget it". Once it works, I'm not about to try messing with a good thing. I just thought getting it to the "working" stage would be easier...:(
I was following
this guide, and even though it was written in May of this year, it turns out running
Code:
cd /mnt/share
chown root:wheel .
chmod 1777 .
will completely hose your ACL permissions. Didn't check the errata guide, did I? Nope. I sure didn't. Didn't know what an errata guide was. Always learning, I am.
I'm beginning to really dislike the Ars Technica article that made FreeNAS seem more "user friendly" than it is. Or has been to me I suppose. It's blowing my mind that I can't get a damned share to work with write access.
I've had to learn how to nuke my existing samba4 and recreate it, but the trouble is I don't know enough to know whether I've done that properly or not! Things aren't working as expected, but I don't know if that's simply user error, or if I'm running into a number of issues that seem to line up perfectly with reported bugs...
Sigh. I'm going to reload FreeNAS onto another USB key and start again to rule out my bumbling as the culprit. I'll re-read the manual regarding permissions.
Any other timely, still accurate for FreeNAS 9.2.1.8=Release,
hold-my-hand-like-a-frightened-little-girl resources anyone can recommend?