Create Personal Folders for Family

[Misinthe]

Good afternoon,

I am trying to create personal SMB for each of my family members, so we have somewhere to store our data privately. For some reason, I created my SBM and when I went into it, all the data from the other SMB was in it, and the rights were also the same, like they were one. This is how I have it set up.

In the Pool Settings
Pool1 > Windows Shares (That's what I named the folder in the Pool)

In the Sharing Settings
Windows Shares(SMB) > Miguel > Path: /mnt/Pool1/WindowsShares
Windows Shares(SMB) > Server Media > Path: /mnt/Pool1/WindowsShares

In Windows Explorer they show as two different folders, but they act as one. How can I separate them? And how can I post pictures here? that'll probably be easier.

 

[sretalla]

How can I separate them?

Don't use the same target path (create subdirectories or child datasets and set the path for each of them in an independent share).

Like this:
Windows Shares(SMB) > Miguel > Path: /mnt/Pool1/WindowsShares/Miguel
Windows Shares(SMB) > Server Media > Path: /mnt/Pool1/WindowsShares/Server Media

And how can I post pictures here?

Copy/paste works.

You can also use the Insert Image button in the toolbar (in the last grouping of tools)

 

[thomas-hn]

Apologize for my little bit off-topic question, please.
I would like to sort my data into different datasets, depending on the importance of the data. This should make the backup handling easier as I can simply apply different backup strategies.
When providing Windows Shares (SMB) to the family members, I would prefer to simply give each family member only one single share they have to connect to, but that they see "virtual folders" inside their share which are redirected onto the user's folders located on different datasets inside TrueNAS?

For example:
User A connects to its \\truenas\userA and sees the following folders:
documents --> located on "Dataset 1" (very important data)
photos --> located on "Dataset 2" (less important, but would hurt if lost)
music --> located on "Dataset 3" (less important data, no big problem if it will be lost)

What is the best practive to achieve this?

 

[sretalla]

What is the best practive to achieve this?

DFS.

FreeNAS and Samba Standalone DFS - Basil's Tech Diary

Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you’re interested in accessing SMB shares hosted on different servers on your network through a single namespace. Assumptions The guide is suitable for a small business or home network that doesn’t use a domain controller for authenticated...

blog.udance.com.au

Personally, I would avoid this as it's a lot of work for not a lot of benefit in my opinion, but it's your choice (and invested time).

 

[Misinthe]

Don't use the same target path (create subdirectories or child datasets and set the path for each of them in an independent share).

Like this:
Windows Shares(SMB) > Miguel > Path: /mnt/Pool1/WindowsShares/Miguel
Windows Shares(SMB) > Server Media > Path: /mnt/Pool1/WindowsShares/Server Media


Copy/paste works.

You can also use the Insert Image button in the toolbar (in the last grouping of tools)

Thank you for your answer,I just created different Datasets for each user and that worked.