Hi, After reading this comment I decided to move the metadata folder of my Plex plugin (49.2GB at this moment) from the jail to a dedicated dataset outside the jail. This allows easy jail reinstallation in case of a plugin issue, which actually happened by the way, but that's another story...

I have just build a brand new file server to replace my old DroboFS. I have installed FreeNAS 9.10.1 on it. It has 4 WD Red disks in it. I have configured it via the wizard to raidz2 for now. I have setup a cifs share on the server and I can access the share from my Arch Linux box fine. Though I...

I'm on V9.3.I have a volume with a bunch of movies of various levels of age appropriateness in 3 specific folders. Lets call them Kids, Teens, Adults. I have 3 windows users(Tom(kid), John(Teen), Kim(Adult) in the house. Tom and John should only be able access their respective folders and Kim...

Hello, I've been trying to figure out what determines the default permissions of new files and folders within a CIFS share. I've got a machine running ubuntu which connects to my freenas box using information I specified in /etc/fstab, according to these instructions...

Hey! So I've been fiddling around and trying to get the USER rooted to the USER dataset and not the branch before. User in question - ftpuser ftpuser has primary group 'ftpuser' and auxillary group 'sftp' which is used as reference for the SSH match block. What happens is that if I set the home...

Hello! I have problems with the following... yesterday ive created a dataset called: Quincy Fleuren and it up for *q_fleuren* After getting into the folder there was a unhidden folder called q_fleuren in the setup *Quincy Fleuren* folder So i moved this folder out on to my desktop since i...

Hello guys, I got a little problem with the VirtualBox-plugin. Ihave installed the plaugin, addes some storage to access my .iso files for installing the VMs but everytime I try to start a VM I got this error message: The virtual machine 'Windows7' has terminated unexpectedly during startup...

Hello all, I am having some issues, either technical or my own stupidity regarding permissions for accessing shares through CIFS. If I can explain what I am trying to do I hope that someone can tell me where I am going wrong in my logic. Running FreenNAS 9.10 I have one data set called DataPool...

I feel really dumb and cant figure this issue out. I have installed syncthing plugin. When I login to my jail I can see the following: Syncthing is running as syncthing user. Default/primary group for syncthing user is syncthing. I map a datastore(all datastores are windows ACL) so syncthing...

I CAN get the AD service to start when making the user part of the "Domain Admins" group. As most system admins, I like to follow least privilege scenario. What rights do I need to delegate to my service account to be able start the AD service. I have already tried giving it access to add...

Hi guys, i'm new here and new to Freenas. I'm writing after reading all the blog posts and stuff about the issue that I am experiencing and that is driving me crazy, but still I can't manage to fix it... Here's the story: I followed this guide to setup my FreeNas with Couchpotato...

Hi, Im Matías from Argentina. Im new in FreeNAS, and my problem is with permission in sharing. I want to let my users copy all files in a shared folder (this shared folder is a RAID 5 in my FreeNAS), then they can execute this files and copy back to their pc, but I don't want to let them delete...

So I have a AFP share that I can access with my credentials, however the drive is shown as a question mark in finder. I don't see the drive in disk utility or when choosing a drive to back up to with Time Machine. I think it has something to do with permissions, but I can't find it. Any ideas...

I'm trying to implement this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1criI2T-QcnrCCbBzlTME-8hK5C1VFd7XckFzKgA952w/edit?usp=sharing I want my "elite" user to be able to read/write everywhere. I also want: A limited user, "grunt", to: Not see some Read some Read/Write some My Plex server to...

This has been my approach to directories and permissions on a Linux server: http://imgur.com/a/83fLq [1] What adaptations would you make when converting to FreenNAS? And any ideas on how can that be tightened up? [2] Source and Destination for jails. I'm having a heck of a time with this...

Warning: n00b alert! Please be aware that this is long so other can learn from my (many) mistakes! OK, here are the basics: Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H CPU: A6-5400K 8-core AMD APU RAM: 16GB DDR3 (non-ECC) SSD: Sandisk 120GB (Boot) HDD: 6 x WD RED 4TB in ZRAID2 (16TB net storage) NIC...

Hello i have a Freenas server running on a HP Server with the following specs 12gb ram Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz 7TB hd space Running the following build FreeNAS-9.10.1 (d989edd I have 8 mac users all of whom which backup to a 3tb time capsule. Ultimately I would like every user to...

Hi guys Need some help, for what i search i beliave both situations are related to permissions. I will apreciat all kind of help. after configure email from freenas i am getting this erros daily: > pid 77498 (Plex Media Scanner), uid 972: exited on signal 11 > pid 77499 (Plex Media Scanner)...

Hey, I've done a pretty thorough search of the forums here and have't seen anyone else encountering the problems I'm facing. First, let me explain my setup: I have two servers, one to work on and one to backup the files on the first server via rsync. For simplicity, however, I'll just be...

UPDATE! The contents of this how-to has been moved to the resources section of this forum. Please see https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/freenas-and-samba-cifs-permissions-video.8/ for updates. This thread can be used to discuss the videos. Mod note: This is now an official XenForo...