Enhance Your TrueNAS Storage With This Web-Based File Manager App [YouTube Release]

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Chapters
00:00 TrueNAS File Browser
00:30 Create Dataset for App Storage
01:00 Setting up the File Browser App
02:15 Getting File Browser App Password
03:16 Adding SMB shares
05:20 User Management
06:07 Permissions

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Hey Tom,
I set this up the other day and all seemed well, was able to move a file from one dataset to another. Awesome, but today, I’m literally trying to move another file from the same source dataset to the same destination dataset, and I just keep getting an error in file browser.
I’ve given the apps user modify permission on both datasets. I even tried FULL CONTROL today.
Not sure why it’s just not working today.
Any ideas?

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Check the logs in the TrueNAS apps side.

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File Browser tries to chmod the file after a copy/move, container logs show, chmod: Operation not permitted

I tried a whole bunch of permission changes, stripped acl and redid with owner apps, root, and others, but ultimately this command is required.
zfs set aclmode=passthrough pool/dataset
for each dataset I want to copy/move between, and the apps users needs at least change permissions.
Without it, it might copy the file, but give a 403 restricted error, but it might copy probably not. I couldn’t figure the pattern out, and lol, I just wanted it to work as I spent a couple hours on this and many fun words were said :joy:.

Not gonna lie, I had to chatgpt my way through this, but I did learn some stuff too which will help in the future.

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