Permissions not persisting

[RichTJ99]

Thanks - I am having issues with my original data pool of 7tb, seems like funky permissions everywhere. I think it is easier to just make a new dataset, make the proper permissions & move the data over which should keep the new permissions.

One question though - when i goto the windows permissions of one of the folders & then choose "search", it brings up users from my last freenas install (same physcial hardware, same pools, new install on usb boot drives).

It has richtj999 & testuser as options but I did not add them to this freenas install. Does Freenas save user data within a data pool?

 

[M H]

No, FreeNAS doesn't save user data within the pool as far as I'm aware. If you open your share and check "set default permissions," it will be like you created a new dataset.

I'm happy to report that almost a month after my ACL issues everything is working well. I do lose some users, or "Account Unknown" error, but a machine reboot usually takes care of it.

My last issue, is that I have no way to give multiple groups permissions via the Windows GUI. How do you add an actual "group?" FreeNAS is mapping my groups to users. So I can add them technically, but if I have a user and group of the same name, I am out of luck. Any ideas? I was trying to research how to add additional group membership via setfacl, but haven't figured it out yet.