I apologize for the long post ahead of time. I'm not getting any traction on another post I created a while ago, so I'm trying here.
About 3 years ago when I setup my freenas box using Freenas 9, I setup my Main volume as a Unix volume. I then created 2 datasets, DS1 and Media. DS1 is a windows share (documents, photos, general storage) and Media for media. When I created these datasets I used the default permissions type, which at the time, I believe was windows permissions. This assumption is based on the current permissions the datasets are set to currently. Since the initial implementation I've updated Freenas multiple times and am now on Freenas 11 Stable.
Shortly after the initial implementation, I've created NFS and CIFS shares. The NFS share was for the Media dataset and the CIFS share for the DS1 dataset. I access these shares using a Mac. Over the years, I've also updated my Mac OS. At one point, I was no longer able to access the CIFS share with my Mac, so I created an NFS share for my DS1 dataset. In short, I now have a CIFS and NFS share for both the DS1 and Media datasets (4 shares in total). In the past 3 or 4 months, I've lost write access to the DS1 dataset, Plex is unable to read from the DS1 dataset, and my Media dataset says files exist, even though I don't see those files in the Media dataset.
My questions:
About 3 years ago when I setup my freenas box using Freenas 9, I setup my Main volume as a Unix volume. I then created 2 datasets, DS1 and Media. DS1 is a windows share (documents, photos, general storage) and Media for media. When I created these datasets I used the default permissions type, which at the time, I believe was windows permissions. This assumption is based on the current permissions the datasets are set to currently. Since the initial implementation I've updated Freenas multiple times and am now on Freenas 11 Stable.
Shortly after the initial implementation, I've created NFS and CIFS shares. The NFS share was for the Media dataset and the CIFS share for the DS1 dataset. I access these shares using a Mac. Over the years, I've also updated my Mac OS. At one point, I was no longer able to access the CIFS share with my Mac, so I created an NFS share for my DS1 dataset. In short, I now have a CIFS and NFS share for both the DS1 and Media datasets (4 shares in total). In the past 3 or 4 months, I've lost write access to the DS1 dataset, Plex is unable to read from the DS1 dataset, and my Media dataset says files exist, even though I don't see those files in the Media dataset.
My questions:
- Can I or should I change the permissions of the datasets to be Unix?
- Will this cause issues or fix issues?
- If I delete shares and re-create them, will this fix some of my permissions issues?
- Any precautions I can take, such as taking snapshots of datasets, before making modifications
- Any other advice to fix my permissions issues?