TrueNAS in 2023

 

I haven't had time to look back at TrueNAS in a while. This video is a raw install on a VM to explore the installation and setup of a basic SMB share. I had to scratch my brain a bit to remember some of the options to make some shortcuts. 

Some of the shortcuts that I took are well highlighted in the interface. 

• First of all I installed on a VM which is not recommended for production. It is known that ZFS doesn't like virtual media, but it is fine for testing and learning the system.
  
• Created a stripe pool - I only added one virtual disks because it doesn't matter for virtual medium - but it was nice the UI forces the user to confirm around 3 times before moving forward. 
• On a standard hardware installation, at least 3 drives - boot and 2 data drives, and more drives can be added to help scale capacity and performance.
• On the SMB share I didn't add a specific user, but rather just opened it up for anyone to modify. All the ACL flags, and allowing guest access is not great, obviously, for security.
  More information about creating a user to password protect the share is here:
  https://youtu.be/UEiwMIG0W9Q?feature=shared
  

I am planning to create some more videos about some of the lesser used features with TrueNAS as well as explore some of the newer features that have continued to improve over the past couple of years since I was using TrueNAS regularly.