I messed up 1 SMB share and and can't get another one working

[viperxoc]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I recently upgraded from a previous version of freeNAS to trueNAS. I had 1 SMB share at that time that was working but now is not and I tried creating another one with an old 2TB drive. The 8TB drive was working until I mucked something up but I have yet to get the 2TB drive working. I can see the 2TB drive on my Widows 11 machine but when I click on it I receive the "You don't have permission" popup. I have been through multiple youtube videos as well as many of the tutorials on here to no avail. The 8TB drive is not set up in any way as I have seen in the tutorials, and I assume that is because it was set up prior to my upgrade to trueNAS 12. Below is my pool setup. Before I upgraded I had full access to the 8TB drive and was using it as plex media storage but now I can see and access it but I can't add or change anything anymore. I tried creating a dataset under the plex-8TB-Drive "plexMedia" and setting up a user but that does not give me drive root access or even access to the plexMedia folder. I thought about using a Windows user account setup but I am currently using an online Windows account and cant figure out how to set that up in the user accounts. Of course like some people I was using the root account to access my drives but as that is not possible anything I try fails. I have spent days trying to fix this to no avail. As a matter of fact I have actually messed the setup more and fixed nothing.

Any help is apreciated.

 

[jgreco]

drive root access or even access to the plexMedia folder. I thought about using a Windows user account setup but I am currently using an online Windows account and cant figure out how to set that up in the user accounts. Of course like some people I was using the root account to access my drives but as that is not possible anything I try fails.

Root access is no longer available. I see that you understand this.

I really know next to nothing about online Windows user accounts. Why don't you just create a user on the NAS, and then provide credentials when mounting the share? This would give you a starting point and is effectively similar except that you're substituting some new string for the old username "root".

 

[viperxoc]

jgreco,

Lol, I tried that a hundred times, but I just tried it again and it worked now. I don't get it. I just created a user and associated it to both drives just as I have done in the past and now suddenly it worked. It could be that I did something on the permissions differently this time. Thank you for the help.

 

[jgreco]

It's always something goofy like the caps lock was on. Computers are annoying.

 

[anodos]

You can view SMB authentication failure attempts with the command:
midclt call smb.status AUTH_LOG '[["Authentication.status", "!=", "NT_STATUS_OK"]]' | jq
(piping through `jq` pretty-prints the output)

Recently I've seen an increasing number of cases where something people are installing seems to be altering Windows security settings to force NTLMv1 auth (basically plain-text in the modern world), which we deny by default.