Enterprise Level File Server

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Hi everyone,

At the moment me and my team have been using Synology NAS devices for our company’s file server. We have 4 sites with 4 NASes that sync data with each other and use Active Directory (LDAP integration) to configure permissions in each file server, which by the way is proving extremely clunky (permissions not working through security groups, multiple users cannot open files at the same time and setting up permissions for each parent folder and every single child folder if there is variance is extremely time consuming and difficult to manage and maintain.

Since Synology has been following anti-consumer practices and seeing how Tom recommends TrueNas scale with ZFS, i was wondering if this would suit our needs.

Can someone with experience let me know how easy is to setup permissions for file sharing in TrueNas and if it is suitable for enterprise use?

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We have it deployed at numerous clients tied to Active Directory and it works well. But TrueNAS does not have a good way to sync shares across sites.

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I’ve used Microsoft DFS as the front end service for file shares across sites many times. You can replicate your files and integrate VSS for versioning.