Users of TrueNAS 24.04 (Dragonfish) or newer can migrate data from a third-party NAS solution onto TrueNAS using the Syncthing Enterprise application. The Syncthing Enterprise application can mount remote SMB shares in a manner that preserves relevant metadata. TrueNAS 24.10 (Electric Eel) also adds migration support for SMB alternate data streams (ADS), used to store application-specific metadata.

TrueNAS Enterprise

Third-party data ingest is available to TrueNAS Enterprise customers with TrueNAS 24.04 (Dragonfish) and newer deployed, as well as the appropriate applications license. TrueNAS Enterprise Support staff are available to assist with deploying the Syncthing Enterprise Application and migrating data. Please contact TrueNAS Enterprise Support to learn more and schedule a time to deploy the app and begin migration.

TrueNAS auditing logs record all operations performed by a session, user, or service (SMB, middleware).

The Audit screen lists all session or user events, facilitating comprehensive monitoring.

SMB Home Share is a legacy feature for organizations looking to maintain existing SMB configurations. Microsoft deprecated the Home Shares feature in Windows 10 and removed it completely from Windows 11. They no longer support Home Shares as of October 2025. TrueNAS removed the home share option from the SMB share Purpose list in 24.04 (Dragonfish).

There are normalize forms for a unicode character with diacritical marks: decomposed (NFD) and pre-composed (NFC).

Take for example the character ä (a + umlaut) and the encoding differences between NFC (b’\xc3\xa4’) and NFD (b’a\xcc\x88’).

The MacOS SMB client historically and at present forces normalization of unicode strings to NFC prior to generating network traffic to the remote SMB server.

The practical impact of this is that a file that contains NFD diacritics on a remote SMB server (TrueNAS, Windows, etc.) might be visible in the directory listing in the MacOS SMB client and thereby Finder, but any operations on the file (edits, deletions, etc.) have undefined behaviors since a file with NFC diacritics does not exist on the remote server.

SMB multichannel allows servers to use multiple network connections simultaneously by combining the bandwidth of several network interface cards (NICs) for better performance.

If you have not added SMB shares to the system, the SMB widget shows text stating general information about the Windows (SMB) Shares until a share is added.

The System > Services screen includes three options on the SMB service row:

• View Logs opens the Audit screen.
• View Sessions opens the SMB Status screen.
• edit Configure icon opens the SMB Service screen showing the Basic Settings by default.

The SMB service screen displays setting options to configure TrueNAS SMB service settings to fit your use case.