Have a great deal of trouble with TrueNAS permsissions.
This forum entry gave quite a few hints at what to do. Generally I hae used Option 1.
This video from Lawrence Systems gave a simple overview of permissions in TrueNAS, but I still could not get it to work properly with Syncthing. Ended up having owner = sync and group = bob to get SyncThing to be able to write to folder, whilst still being able to view it on Mac. Would not accept group = sync even though bob was a member of sync.
- Setup Users - Accounts -> Users
- Setup Groups - Accounts -> Groups
- Goto Group_Name, “>” at RHS. Click Members button
- This brings up a screen where you can add/remove users to the group. NOTE: Never add
rootto a group, apparently it does not work
- This brings up a screen where you can add/remove users to the group. NOTE: Never add
- Generally recommended to setup a dataset for each group type
- Select parent dataset, Storage -> Pools, 3-dots at RHS, Add Dataset
- Add name (use underscores rather than spaces), click Submit
- Having added Dataset, go to 3-dots RHS, click Edit Permissions
- Defaults to
root - Add/remove users as required
- Tick Apply User and Apply Group, tick Apply recursively
- Click Save button
- Defaults to
- NOTE: If get into a mess with ACLs, can use Strip ACLs to start over
Share via SMB
- Add sharing via Sharing -> Windows Shares (SMB)
- Expand path to find relevant dataset. NOTE: ACL indicates where permissions are coming from
- Add any Description required Click Submit
Check the folder can be seen on the Mac / Windows machine