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TrueNAS shares help. (lemmy.zip)
submitted 9 months ago by k0mprssd@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm pretty new to self hosting, so apoligies in advance if what i wanna do sounds stupid. I've had an old lenovo desktop set up with truenas for about a month now, and I was wondering if it was possible to have an smb share and a filebrowser instance use the same directory. I tried to set it up like this when deploying filebrowser but when I set the directory to the smb share, truenas gave me an error saying that the path is being used as an smb share. the reason why I wanna do this is for simple access in my desktops file explorer, while also being able to access the same files from my phone, or over the internet. thanks in advance for taking time out of your day to give me a hand.

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[-] MonitorZero@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There's an integrity check they implemented last year.

Login to your TrueNAS

Go to the Shares section from the left hand menu

Turn off the share

Launch the app you need

Once the app is fully deployed turn the file share back on again

That should do it. If the system goes down or the app updates and redeploys you'll need to turn off the share again to pass the integrity check.

[-] Dhs92@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Or mount it as an NFS share if it gives you the option

[-] k0mprssd@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

this seems to have worked, but whenever I go in in filebrowser everything is read only. any way to change this?

[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
NAS Network-Attached Storage
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

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[-] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

If you are more interested in running apps than having a NAS, I recommend trying CasaOS. TrueNAS is great, but I found CasaOS significantly more straightforward, especially when it comes to smb shares (it's like two clicks).

Also TrueNAS uses ZFS which is good for what it is, but means you basically need a machine running TrueNAS to read/write the drives in case something goes wrong.

[-] k0mprssd@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

that is kinda what I'm trying to do. truenas is nice and all but its also pretty advanced and not beginner friendly when it comes to a lot of things. I've heard a lot about casaos from a youtuber that I like to watch, but I never realized that it was more of a nas os than just a platform to run applications. I'll give it a shot! thanks for the recommendation.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

Compared to TrueNAS, CasaOS is more of a "platform for running apps", but unless you're storing dozens of terabytes of improtant data in RAID or something, it's still probably the easier/lower maitenence option.

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