Trying to wrap my head around plugins and jails

[Fuganater]

FreeNAS used to just be a box of HDDs with a Windows share setup. Since I am going with it as my primary solution I am looking into how to setup some of the sweet plugins that it offers.

I read some great things about newshosting/usenet and decided to install sabnzbd to do some downloads but I am hitting a wall when it comes to permissions. The following is testing I am doing on my old FreeNAS setup.

So I have a share out there for NAS which is my main pool and one for media which obv is for media. For simplicity, I set the owner to nobody and the group to nogroup so I can have access. I set sabnzbd to look at /mnt/NAS/media for any new .nzb files I put in there. But when I go to add the folder in the config, I get an error that it can not access that folder. (I'm pretty sure this is my issue but I can access just fine from a windows client, just not in the plugins).

Now this also could be because I set the jail storage up wrong. I tried reading about it but the source and destination make no sense to me no matter how many times I read the documentation. (I am a Windows guy). I have the jail pointing to /mnt/NAS/media for both source and destination. I don't want the data stored in the jail, I want it in my media folder so all my files are in 1 place and not all over.

I did finally get it to work by making a share to /mnt/NAS/jails/customplugin_2/var/db/sabnzbd/Downloads and then mounting that on my windows machine.

Is it really this hard or am I an idiot?

PS. Once I figure this out I want to figure out couchpotato.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

the source is fine, your destination doesn't make much sense. This path should be relative to the jail's perspective. Alot of people use /media because it already exists, but you could use anything.

I don't recommend you setup your share that way. Your share should point to a dataset outside the jail, that dataset should be mounted into the jail.
If you are having permission issues read this and implement this. https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...plugins-write-permissions-to-your-data.27273/

 

[Nick2253]

Each jail has its own folder hierarchy. /mnt/SomeFolder from a jail's perspective would be /mnt/NAS/jails/jailname_1/mnt/SomeFolder from FreeNAS's perspective.

What you want to do is add storage to your jail (https://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_jails.html#add-storage). For example, I have a "Downloads" dataset at /mnt/volume1/Downloads which has all of my downloads. I mount that to my jail so it shows up to the jail as /mnt/Downloads. Then, I point the program in the jail (in this case, Transmission) to use /mnt/Downloads. To share access to that folder, from FreeNAS, I share /mnt/volume1/Downloads. Also, when you add storage to your jail, that helps tremendously with permission issues.

 

[Fuganater]

OK so by adding the "media" (816) user, changing the media dataset to have the owner/group be "media" and now sabnzbd can access that folder and pull the files, great! But now I can't access the folder from windows...

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

OK so by adding the "media" (816) user, changing the media dataset to have the owner/group be "media" and now sabnzbd can access that folder and pull the files, great! But now I can't access the folder from windows...

like I said, it'd fix your plugin issues =P
what I have done for family members needing CIFS is have the share's "force user = media" in the auxiliary parameters. also force guest access

 

[Fuganater]

Well I have it working right now. Both couchpotato and SABnzbd are cooperating, files are downloading and moving to the proper folders after they finish. Things will remain ok until I try plex because I saw in the article that the user is "plex" and not "media". I guess I will have to try that line but use plex? "force user = plex" ?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Well I have it working right now. Both couchpotato and SABnzbd are cooperating, files are downloading and moving to the proper folders after they finish. Things will remain ok until I try plex because I saw in the article that the user is "plex" and not "media". I guess I will have to try that line but use plex? "force user = plex" ?

If plex needs read-only access then you should have to change anything. You can even make the mountpoint a readonly into the plex jail.

This is what I do with Emby