Hi all,
I'm quite new to FreeNAS and I'm trying out a few things before I start migrating away from "two big disks stuffed in my desktop".
I've been trying out the Syncthing plugin and had some problems with permissions/ACLs (see here) Long story short, Syncthing needs to be able to
The idea is that there will be other types of backups in the future, and that Syncthing will have its own dataset with child datasets for each user (please let me know if this is exceedingly dumb idea :)
All three datasets (backup, sync and bozho) have Unix permissions and group ownership set to the
All of this works fine. I've created a
Then, I wanted to test the scenario for sharing this with a Windows machine. Reading about NFS shares, they seem a bit of a faff on Windows. So, I wanted to try sharing the
As soon as I added the
I can connect to the share just fine from Windows (although I was having some problems yesterday on a previous iteration of this test), but Syncthing cannot
TL;DR: If I have to have a Unix dataset and would like to share it to a Windows client, is NFS really my only option, or is there a way to create an SMB share that won't mess up my dataset Unix permissions?
Thank you!
I'm quite new to FreeNAS and I'm trying out a few things before I start migrating away from "two big disks stuffed in my desktop".
I've been trying out the Syncthing plugin and had some problems with permissions/ACLs (see here) Long story short, Syncthing needs to be able to
chmod files, which means my sync dataset has to be of Unix variety. I've actually created a small hierarchy of "backup" datasets here:Code:
/mnt/master
/backup
/sync
/bozho
The idea is that there will be other types of backups in the future, and that Syncthing will have its own dataset with child datasets for each user (please let me know if this is exceedingly dumb idea :)
All three datasets (backup, sync and bozho) have Unix permissions and group ownership set to the
backup group:Code:
[bozho@freenas /]$ ls -al /mnt/master/backup/ total 10 drwxrwxr-x 3 root backup 3 Jan 3 18:04 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 7 Jan 3 18:03 .. drwxrwxr-x 3 root backup 3 Jan 3 18:04 sync [bozho@freenas /]$ ls -al /mnt/master/backup/sync/ total 2 drwxrwxr-x 3 root backup 3 Jan 3 18:04 . drwxrwxr-x 3 root backup 3 Jan 3 18:04 .. drwxrwxr-x 4 bozho backup 4 Jan 3 18:07 bozho [bozho@freenas /]$ ls -al /mnt/master/backup/sync/bozho/ total 42 drwxrwxr-x 4 bozho backup 4 Jan 3 18:07 . drwxrwxr-x 3 root backup 3 Jan 3 18:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 55 983 backup 116 Jan 3 18:13 documents drwxr-xr-x 7 983 backup 14 Jan 3 18:15 phone_photos
All of this works fine. I've created a
backup group inside the Syncthing jail with the same GID and added the syncthing user to it and Syncthing happily syncs with my Win10 laptop.Then, I wanted to test the scenario for sharing this with a Windows machine. Reading about NFS shares, they seem a bit of a faff on Windows. So, I wanted to try sharing the
backup dataset over SMB. I promise I tried searching for an answer, I couldn't find a good one.As soon as I added the
backup SMB share, that dataset's permissions got converted to ACLs and permissions type is shown as Windows in the GUI. sync and bozho datasets still show up as having Unix permissions, but lsing seems to show they got converted to ACLs (there's a + in file/directory permissions) and all files are owned by root:backup (originally, the bozho dataset was owned by bozho:backup.I can connect to the share just fine from Windows (although I was having some problems yesterday on a previous iteration of this test), but Syncthing cannot
chmod the files anymore.TL;DR: If I have to have a Unix dataset and would like to share it to a Windows client, is NFS really my only option, or is there a way to create an SMB share that won't mess up my dataset Unix permissions?
Thank you!
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