Hi,
I'm familiar with older versions of freenas (eg. 9.x and 11.x) but am very new to 12, having set up a new server just today.
I'm seeing something rather odd (to me) with datasets that I'm confused about - hopefully someone can help !!....
Historically on my older freenas systems I have created a pool and then shared the pool via SMB - everything works as expected. If I do that on TrueNas 12 it works exactly the same way - so far so good.
However, I want to encrypt the pool and use a passphrase instead of key, and becasue the system dataset sits in the pool it wont let me do that. So I created a dataset in the pool and this is where things start to go wrong...
The pool is called "Pool" and the dataset named "data". I can see the directory /mnt/Pool/data. So far so good.
I create an smb share of the dataset "data" and mount it as a network drive on my PC, as user "fred".
Now I get a child dataset "fred" created, and its directory /mnt/Pool/data/fred. If another user mounts it they get a directory and dataset for them too and can't see the files created by fred.
Am I doing something wrong or is that intended behaviour ? What I really want is a dataset which in encrypted with a passphrase and shareable to multiple PC's with different users but who can share the data, so just directory under /mnt/Pool/.
Cheers,
John
I'm familiar with older versions of freenas (eg. 9.x and 11.x) but am very new to 12, having set up a new server just today.
I'm seeing something rather odd (to me) with datasets that I'm confused about - hopefully someone can help !!....
Historically on my older freenas systems I have created a pool and then shared the pool via SMB - everything works as expected. If I do that on TrueNas 12 it works exactly the same way - so far so good.
However, I want to encrypt the pool and use a passphrase instead of key, and becasue the system dataset sits in the pool it wont let me do that. So I created a dataset in the pool and this is where things start to go wrong...
The pool is called "Pool" and the dataset named "data". I can see the directory /mnt/Pool/data. So far so good.
I create an smb share of the dataset "data" and mount it as a network drive on my PC, as user "fred".
Now I get a child dataset "fred" created, and its directory /mnt/Pool/data/fred. If another user mounts it they get a directory and dataset for them too and can't see the files created by fred.
Am I doing something wrong or is that intended behaviour ? What I really want is a dataset which in encrypted with a passphrase and shareable to multiple PC's with different users but who can share the data, so just directory under /mnt/Pool/.
Cheers,
John
