Setting Up Data Sharing
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Last Modified 2023-11-30 10:15 ESTAfter setting up storage on your TrueNAS, it is time to begin sharing data! There are several sharing solutions available on SCALE, but in this article we discuss the most common.
As of SCALE 22.12 (Bluefin), MS-DOS SMB1 clients cannot connect to TrueNAS SCALE Bluefin. TrueNAS SCALE SMB does not support End-of-Life (EoL) Windows clients, including MS-DOS.
The Samba project, which TrueNAS SCALE uses to provide SMB sharing features, has deprecated the SMB1 protocol for security concerns. The Samba 4.16 release notes announced that they deprecated and disabled the whole SMB1 protocol as of 4.11. If needed, for security purposes or code maintenance, Samba continues to remove older protocol commands and unused dialects or those that are replaced in more modern SMB1 versions.
TrueNAS now uses Samba 4.17. TrueNAS still has SMB1 protocol support but:
- MS-DOS-based SMB clients cannot connect to TrueNAS SCALE Bluefin.
- MS-DOS-based SMB clients are no longer able to connect to any TrueNAS servers.
- SMB clients determined to be end-of-life (EOL) by their vendor are not supported.
Administrators should work to phase out any clients using the SMB1 protocol from their environments.
Client systems that can only use the SMB1 protocol for SMB shares are no longer capable of connecting to SMB shares created in TrueNAS SCALE 22.12 or later.
Refer to Samba release notes for more information.
TrueNAS SCALE provides four types of sharing methods, but this article only discusses three:
For more information on TrueNAS SCALE shares, see the Shares tutorials.
Regardless of what type of share you create, the first step is to create a dataset to use for the share.
The share creation process starts with creating a dataset to use for the share.
For more information on adding SMB shares, see Adding SMB Shares.
For more information on creating NFS shares, see Adding NFS Shares.
Setting up block sharing is a complicated scenario that requires detailed configuration steps and knowledge of your network environment. A simple configuration is beyond the scope of this getting started guide, but detailed articles are available in the SCALE Tutorials section.
With simple sharing now set up, you can back up your configuration and set up data backup.