Up to 11.3 from 11.2 (orig 9.x). Blew plugins away. Want to keep shares - Convert datasets to ACL?

[Chip Sprague]

Hello,

I upgraded to 11.3 from 11.2 yesterday and blew away my plugins. I have a residual complicated SMB sharing - I'd like to preserve that structure/permissions. I only have two data sets. Jails and a big raidpool. Everything shared via SMB is on the raidpool.

All the guides for new plugin setup I've found want to use ACL. I can't figure out how to "convert" my existing set to ACL. Do I have to create a new dataset and move all the data over? Would I have to re-create all my permissions and shares in that scenario? 3/4 of my space is used so I don't have room to copy everything.

 

[sretalla]

I hope you mean from 11.3-U5 to 12.0... there is no 13.5 to my knowledge.

 

[Chip Sprague]

I hope you mean from 11.3-U5 to 12.0... there is no 13.5 to my knowledge.

Yep! Edited... not enough coffee when I posted. Thanks.

 

[anodos]

There should be no need for a migration. Permissions should just work, but there are a few prominent youtube videos apparently that provide steps to totally break permissions on your server :/

 

[anodos]

Nevermind. Apparently, I needed coffee too. No. There's no real need to move things over. If you have a group that already exists on your NAS that has permissions to your SMB shares in a way that you want it to, create a group with the same GID in your plugin jail, and make the service account the plugin uses (for example, plex), a member of that group in the jail. This involves a little more CLI work (normal FreeBSD stuff to make a group and add an existing user to a group), but it can totally avoid having to alter existing permissions.

 

[Chip Sprague]

Hey, thanks for the reply. Haven't been able to revisit this due to forum outages and local outages.

Step 1 - I already broke something. I created a mount point and the directory I mounted is no longer viewable from Windows. Other shares are. Somehow mounting that path broke access from Windows. That mount was the only thing I changed on that path. I'm up to TrueNAS 12 now, if that matters. I figured I'd go ahead and do that before reconfiguring all this stuff.