@Glorious1
Great guide. After re-reading it and looking into some other how-to's on here I have a few questions and wondering if maybe your experience in the matter is similar to mine and you can provide some insight.
I have a macbook pro which I use for work at multiple locations. I'm new to FreeNAS, I have the mini and I have the basic ZFS setup, and have added a share.
I do not have my permissions down yet. I'll I suppose only need two users (Myself, and a media user I believe for transmission etc.). I read your excellent thread, and besides my SSH tunneling issue (i'm assuming its permissions related?) everything went off without a hitch. Thanks!
I have workstations at a few different locations which I dock my laptop to. They all have attached storage through thunderbolt attached to a thunderbolt display.
I'd like to start backing up work at these different locations to the same off-site backup.
I'd also like to use the freenas machine to serve my tv locally and downloads via transmission at home as an added bonus. (I mention as I'm unsure if this changes any permissions settings that might need to be done)
I don't use time machine as I feel its resource intensive and tends to just back up junk rather than useful data which I store on the removable drives (in case laptop is stolen, etc.).
I have a few questions:
If I map the network drive, will I have to re-map it based upon my location (i.e. a local share, vs a share over DDNS?) I'd like to have the share simply pop-up in finder as a network device so I can drag and drop, rather than use FTP however I'm open to whichever may best best given my setup.
I don't want my hand held, but I'd appreciate some direction so I know which is the best road to start traveling down. I'd also appreciate any stickies which help to this end.
Also, where can I find a best-practice permissions example for a single user? I'm slightly confused by the interrelation between a User/Group/Dataset and Share and how I can essentially set "root-type" privileges for myself without logging in as root through ssh.
I want it to be secure. I don't think speed is necessarily top priority as it'll be bottlenecked by the internet connection over the longer distances. Is AFP / SSH the way to go? Is there something else I should consider?