SkyWolf_9000
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Hello everyone,
//Backstory: I am new to the forum and very inexperienced with TrueNAS so please forgive me if i have missed out any detail and I'll be happy to provide it.
So about a year ago I set up an old office computer to run FreeNAS (I'm not sure what version anymore) because it was an old system and i needed a simple way to share files between computers and at work. The system worked great, except for the fact that I couldn't install plugins or create jails. Whenever i attempted, I'd just get a long error that basically mentioned some python error. So i noticed that TrueNAS had been released. I switched my update train and updated to the latest stable version, enabling automatic update and leaving it as is. I still couldn't/can't download or install plugins and jails corrupt themselves all the time on even fresh installations, different hard drives and computers. Eventually i just stopped trying since nothing seemed to work and just accepted my system boots fine and can be used just as a file server (yes i made sure to wait long enough - i left it creating a jail for 2 days straight and it was getting nowhere)
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//Cause: Anyways this was all fine for a while until a very mistimed power cut killed the server during boot-up and corrupted some of the boot files on the drive. I tried to replace them with different ones with the USB installer, however that failed too, so whenever it attempts to start up, it gets stuck on loading a plugin and says the daemon is not running. So i decided to just install TrueNAS on another hard drive, plug the old one as a secondary device and import the pool. (I know i was a moron to use the boot drive for storage but i had no other drives at the time and it was good enough, or so i thought).
//Issue: The problem is, when i imported the pool, all my files do show up when i am in the pools menu and i can drop down and see all my folders, but when i click on the 3 dots to edit the permissions, nothing comes up. I know all my files are there and I'd like to either copy them to another drive, or make this one accessible so i can enable it as an SMB share, however the only folder it allows me to share, is of no use to me. The weird thing is that it does allow to edit the permissions for that dataset, just not the main one that i need. I have tried to import on 3 computers now and none worked. When you open the task list, you see permission denied after the import yet it sees all files fine in the dataset drop-down. Could anyone please be kind enough to help me get this data set to be available and have read permissions or backup the data to another drive? Thank you so much for taking the time to read this abomination if a thread and I'm very thankful for any feedback. Please tell me if you need any other info.
The server is running on a Dell Optiplex 780 USSF with 4gb ram and a core 2 duo 3.2ghz
I also ran it on an Hp Z800 workstation with 2 Xeon X5690s and 64gb ram and i got the exact same results with the pools, plugins and jails so i don't think its a power issue.
//Backstory: I am new to the forum and very inexperienced with TrueNAS so please forgive me if i have missed out any detail and I'll be happy to provide it.
So about a year ago I set up an old office computer to run FreeNAS (I'm not sure what version anymore) because it was an old system and i needed a simple way to share files between computers and at work. The system worked great, except for the fact that I couldn't install plugins or create jails. Whenever i attempted, I'd just get a long error that basically mentioned some python error. So i noticed that TrueNAS had been released. I switched my update train and updated to the latest stable version, enabling automatic update and leaving it as is. I still couldn't/can't download or install plugins and jails corrupt themselves all the time on even fresh installations, different hard drives and computers. Eventually i just stopped trying since nothing seemed to work and just accepted my system boots fine and can be used just as a file server (yes i made sure to wait long enough - i left it creating a jail for 2 days straight and it was getting nowhere)
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//Cause: Anyways this was all fine for a while until a very mistimed power cut killed the server during boot-up and corrupted some of the boot files on the drive. I tried to replace them with different ones with the USB installer, however that failed too, so whenever it attempts to start up, it gets stuck on loading a plugin and says the daemon is not running. So i decided to just install TrueNAS on another hard drive, plug the old one as a secondary device and import the pool. (I know i was a moron to use the boot drive for storage but i had no other drives at the time and it was good enough, or so i thought).
//Issue: The problem is, when i imported the pool, all my files do show up when i am in the pools menu and i can drop down and see all my folders, but when i click on the 3 dots to edit the permissions, nothing comes up. I know all my files are there and I'd like to either copy them to another drive, or make this one accessible so i can enable it as an SMB share, however the only folder it allows me to share, is of no use to me. The weird thing is that it does allow to edit the permissions for that dataset, just not the main one that i need. I have tried to import on 3 computers now and none worked. When you open the task list, you see permission denied after the import yet it sees all files fine in the dataset drop-down. Could anyone please be kind enough to help me get this data set to be available and have read permissions or backup the data to another drive? Thank you so much for taking the time to read this abomination if a thread and I'm very thankful for any feedback. Please tell me if you need any other info.
The server is running on a Dell Optiplex 780 USSF with 4gb ram and a core 2 duo 3.2ghz
I also ran it on an Hp Z800 workstation with 2 Xeon X5690s and 64gb ram and i got the exact same results with the pools, plugins and jails so i don't think its a power issue.