Need to share files across your network? TrueNAS makes it easy to set up and manage SMB, NFS, and AFP shares for seamless file access. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know to create and manage network shares on TrueNAS, ensuring secure and efficient file sharing.
✅ What You'll Learn:
? Setting up SMB (Windows file sharing)
? Configuring NFS for Linux/macOS access
? Managing user permissions and access control
? Troubleshooting common share issues
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? Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
*** NFS Shares ***
1:05 Creating a dataset for NFS share with POSIX permissions
1:30 Creating an NFS share
2:25 Changing permissions for the dataset
2:50 Mounting the share on Fedora
4:21 Modifying permissions for a specific Linux user
*** SMB Shares ***
6:42 Creating a dataset for SMB share with ACL permissions
7:28 Editing permissions
7:41 Creating an SMB user
8:50 Mounting the share in Windows
*** Converting Datasets ***
10:08 POSIX dataset being shared with SMB
10:35 Changing POSIX to ACL
11:05 Adding users to the permissions
^ *edit:* when adding the _mask_ give it read/write/execute permissions
11:40 Mounting the share
*** Apps Preset Dataset ***
12:48 Creating Apps preset dataset
13:45 Mounting the share
14:45 Warning about permissions
18:11 Outro
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