In my home environment, I run Active Directory. I recently installed the latest production version of TrueNAS Scale. I’ve connected it to AD; however, I’ve noticed that whenever I add a new user or group or even update membership for an existing group, TrueNAS does not reflect the update. I’ve come across a few posts where they suggested rebuilding the AD cache or troubleshooting from the command line. Am I missing something when connecting TrueNAS to AD? There’s no way you could use this in an AD environment if you have to rebuild the cache every time you need to grant a new user or group access to a share.
If you are looking for immediate changes then you have to rebuild the cache. I don’t recall how often it refreshes the cache though. This is just its implementation at this point in time. You aren’t missing anything.
In my experience, CORE refreshes pretty fast. I have not tried scale connected to AD yet, this was one of my concerns and why I didn’t make the migration.
By pretty fast I should probably mention that often I’ll make a test user account in AD, then go log into a user workstation with it and the shares are all working. Span of time around 10 minutes between the two events. I do not have an exact time on this and never even thought about the process taking time to update the catalog in CORE.
Which version of SCALE are you running? I have a 24.01 that I was going to try working with AD mapped shares but haven’t had time. EEL is still Beta and I decided that I didn’t want to go there on my lab (yet).
Thanks for the response I will give Core a try because for me this is a non-negotiable and I would have a hard time recommending this for business use. Not a big deal I can always deploy server 2022 or an Alma Linux build add that to AD and configure Samba.
All of my system is Windows and this has climbed up through the ages from Server 2008r2 to now Server 2022 and CORE 13-u6. And Freenas 9.x up through 13-u6.
I run the latest version of core in a true production environment for a business and I don’t find that it is fast by any means to update the cache on its own. I also run scale at home in my lab and it is still the same.