SMB/Dataset Root Lost

[TheTamago]

Hello FreeNAS Supporters,

I am one of those newbie idiots that failed to setup a backup of my FreeNAS 11.8-U8 OS and the configuration. My single USB FD corrupted and I attempted to setup Dual USB FD in mirror mode and imported the Pool like I thought was simple as that. However, after I created the SMB share, I thought I could use the root account again. Sadly, I cannot get back to the root of dataset named /mnt/Igloo01. In my Pool, for Igloo01 I have the Anime dataset which is my primary archive as you can guess already. My FreeNAS was original on version 9.2 and I have been manually ugrading through the GUI every quarter. The FreeNAS is now on 11.3-U5.

Is there a way to get the User/Group for the SMB ACL permissions configured right in the SMB Share for the /mnt/Igloo01? I tried creating a guest user in a group called shared and I could not access the servername\Igloo01 without success.

Much Thanks,

TheTamago

 

[TheTamago]

More Details of what I could find by searching deeper and deeper while I lose my head in this newer permission fudge.

I can see the Anime Folder but nothing else from the dataset and SMB Share

 

[TheTamago]

Managed to use the Shell and move all the Folders off my root dataset /mnt/Igloo01 to the main share dataset /mnt/Igloo01/Anime with the mv source_dir target_dir command

Created the SAMBA share to /mnt/Igloo01/Anime and set the ACL to Open with my Igloo user account and guest group for the ACL recursive.
Guest Connections Allowed
I can now access the SAMBA at the root /mnt/Igloo01/ without any hiccups.
I will monitor this until the Weekend. SO WEIRD

 

[sretalla]

Pay attention when you update to TrueNAS 12.0 CORE. You can't share with SMB as root in that version. You will need to create a user to share with and set the permissions accordingly.

 

[TheTamago]

Pay attention when you update to TrueNAS 12.0 CORE. You can't share with SMB as root in that version. You will need to create a user to share with and set the permissions accordingly.

I've been reading the horror stories and I will be staying away from 12.x if there is a better reason other than a simple SMB. No plans to share online as I hurt my head enough in networking with VPN/Tunnel/Routing and mostly being a Windows Sys Admin at a moderate skill level *cough*

 

[TheTamago]

As a follow-up, access to the root of the dataset broke. I can still access the sub child dataset Anime which was set as the SMB share. So weird. I should be able to created new sub child datasets from the root and share like I did for my Anime as the "correct" way from now with the permission changes in the NAS releases?