Share Management After creating the SMB share, additional management options are available by going to Sharing > Windows Shares (SMB) and clicking for a share entry:
Name Description Edit Opens the share creation screen to reconfigure the share or disable it. Edit Share ACL Opens a screen to configure an Access Control List (ACL) for the share. The default is open. Edit Share ACL
This is separate from file system permissions, and applies at the level of the entire SMB share.
TrueNAS offers the Use as Home Share option for organizations or SMEs that want to use a single SMB share to provide a personal directory to every user account.
The Use as Home Share feature is available for a single TrueNAS SMB share. You can create additional SMB shares as described in the SMB sharing article but without the Use as Home Share option enabled. Create a Pool and Join Active Directory First, go to Storage > Pools and create a pool.
To access SMB share management options, go to Shares screen with the Windows (SMB) Shares widget. The widget lists SMB shares configured on but is not the full list. Each share listed includes four icons that open other screens or dialogs that provide access to share settings. To see a full list of shares, click on Windows (SMB) Shares launch to open the Sharing > SMB screen. Each share row on this screen provides access to the other screens or dialogs with share settings.
TrueNAS and ZFS by default can support large numbers of files. Per directory this can grow to 281+ trillion and per file system there is no upper limit. However, these are theoritical limits, and there are host and client side practical limits dealing with large quantity of files. Specifically when it comes to how fast you can list or “enumerate” them.
Starting in Dragonfish 24.04 and later, the meta-data performance of directory listings over SMB is greatly improved.
Windows (SMB) Shares Widget If you have not added SMB shares to the system, the SMB widget shows No records have been added yet.
Figure 1: Windows (SMB) Share Widget without Shares Add at the top right of the widget opens the Add SMB screen where you configure SMB shares. After adding an SMB share it displays on the widget.
Figure 2: Windows (SMB) Share Widget with Shares Click on Windows (SMB) Shares launch to open the Sharing > SMB screen.
SCALE uses predefined setting options to establish an SMB share that fits a predefined purpose, such as a basic time machine share.
Setting Up a Basic Time Machine SMB Share To set up a basic time machine share:
Create the user(s) for this SMB share. Go to Credentials > Local User and click Add.
Create the share and dataset with Purpose set to Basic time machine share.
Modify the SMB service settings.
Shadow Copies, also known as the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) or Previous Versions, is a Microsoft service for creating volume snapshots. Shadow copies can be used to restore previous versions of files from within Windows Explorer.
By default, all ZFS snapshots for a dataset underlying an SMB share path are presented to SMB clients through the volume shadow copy service or are accessible directly with SMB when the hidden ZFS snapshot directory is located within the path of the SMB share.
The SCALE CLI guide is a work in progress! New namespace and command documentation is continually added and maintained, so check back here often to see what is new!
Enable Shadow Copies exports ZFS snapshots as Shadow Copies for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) clients.
About SMB Shadow Copies Shadow Copies, also known as the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) or Previous Versions, is a Microsoft service for creating volume snapshots. You can use shadow copies to restore previous versions of files from within Windows Explorer.
By default, all ZFS snapshots for a dataset underlying an SMB share path are presented to SMB clients through the volume shadow copy service or are accessible directly with SMB when the hidden ZFS snapshot directory is within the SMB share path.
About Multiprotocol Shares A multiprotocol or mixed-mode NFS and SMB share supports both NFS and SMB protocols for sharing data. Multiprotocol shares allow clients to use either protocol to access the same data. This can be useful in environments with a mix of Windows systems and Unix-like systems, especially if some clients lack an SMB client.
Carefully consider your environment and access requirements before configuring a multiprotocol share. For many applications, a single protocol SMB share provides better user experience and ease of administration.
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