First Time TrueNAS Scale user and the learning curve

[BrokenHalo]

As excited as I am to have built my first TrueNAS Scale system I am running into most likely easy problems if I knew what I was doing. I've created 2 map pool datasets (one for all my photography and video editing and one for everyone in the home), created the users however when I try to map the drives on windows I can't get it to find the drives and/or credentials don't match even though I'm using the user credentials I had already created. What am I doing wrong? I can post screenshots if needed however I don't wanna overs share useless screenshots any help would be greatly appreciated. I also noticed one of my datasets says used by the system which doesn't make since as the drive for the system is a different drive then the one I set up for the data sets. Did I create the dataset wrong? Nothing has been added to the drives so any start over can be done and not have to worry about data loss atm.

 

[BrokenHalo]

PC Specs:
Intel Core i5-4460 Processor
MSI Z97 PC Mate Motherboard
x4 HyperX hx318c10f/8 - 32G RAM
QFly 10 Gigabit PCIE NIC
ACTIMED PCIE SATA Expansion Card
Corsair CX750 Power supply
x8 Lexar Lexar NS100 1TB SSDs
x2 WD Blue 1TB HDDs
x1 Seagate IronWolf125 1TB SSD
x1 SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB (System Drive)

 

[BrokenHalo]

Can some one tell me when mapping the drive in windows how the path is laid out? Some research I've found show IP address followed by the path to the dataset and some show just the system host name to the path to the dataset. Am I supposed to add "mnt" to the path when mapping it in windows?
\\192.168.1.XXX/mnt/BrokenHalo_Studio
or is it
\\truenas/mnt/BrokenHalo_Studio
or is it something else?

 

[Ericloewe]

Some research I've found show IP address followed by the path to the dataset and some show just the system host name to the path to the dataset.

It's \\server\share, where the server can be the usual IP address or hostname known to your system.

Am I supposed to add "mnt" to the path when mapping it in windows?

No, unless you did something really silly like creating a share named "mnt".

 

[chuck32]

on windows I can't get it to find the drives and/or credentials don't match even though I'm using the user credentials I had already created. What am I doing wrong?

Which one is it? Can't map the drive or can't login?

For logging in, if I remember correctly you can get to the point, where windows will use some credentials (stored and saved at some point) and not necessarily ask you which credentials you want to use. Try removing all SMB credentials in credential manager and try again. If not being able to log in is your problem.

Ericloewe already pointed out the correct syntax for accessing the shares. it's \ not / and without mnt.

some show just the system host name to the path to the dataset

Haven't tinkered with it yet, but I believe that requires a local DNS resolver to point the host name or anything else to your IP. Stick to using the IP for now.

I also noticed one of my datasets says used by the system which doesn't make since as the drive for the system is a different drive then the one I set up for the data sets.

Do not confuse your boot pool with that. I moved the system dataset to my bootpool though (when we're at it already, is this a good idea anyway?). I think per default the first data pool you create will get used as the location.