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Home Shares

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Last Modified 2022-09-29 14:24 -0400

TrueNAS offers the Use as Home Share option for organizations or SMEs that want to use a single SMB share to provide a personal directory to every user account.

The Use as Home Share feature is available for a single TrueNAS SMB share. You can create additional SMB shares as described in the SMB sharing article but without the Use as Home Share option enabled.

Create a Pool and Join Active Directory

First, go to Storage > Pools and create a pool.

Next, set up the Active Directory that you want to share resources with over your network.

Prepare a Dataset

Go to Storage > Pools and open the next to the root dataset in the pool you just created, then click Add Dataset.

Name the dataset (this article uses Home_Share_Dataset as an example) and set the Share Type to SMB.

StoragePoolsOptionsDatasetCreateOurhome

After creating the dataset, go to Storage > Pools and open next to the new dataset. Select Edit Permissions.

Click the Group dropdown menu and change the owning group to your Active Directory domain admins and check Apply Group.

GroupDomainAdmins

Click Select an ACL Preset and choose HOME. Then, click SAVE.

StoragePoolsOptionsEditPermissionsACLPresetHome

Create the Share

Go to Sharing > Windows Shares (SMB) and click ADD.

Set the Path to the prepared dataset (Home_Share_Dataset for example).

The Name automatically changes to be identical to the dataset. Leave this at the default.

Set the Purpose to No presets, then click ADVANCED OPTIONS and check Use as Home Share. Click SUBMIT.

SharingSMBAddHomeShareExample

The ACL editor opens, displaying the home ACL preset values.

HomeShareACLEditor

Click SAVE. Enable the SMB service in Services to make the share available on your network.

Add Users

Go to Accounts > Users and click ADD. Create a new user name and password. By default, the user **Home Directory is titled from the user account name and added as a new subdirectory of Home_Share_Dataset.

AccountsUsersEditHomeDir

If existing users require access to the home share, go to Accounts > Users and edit an existing account.

Adjust the user home directory to the appropriate dataset and give it a name to create their own directory.

After the user accounts have been added and permissions configured, users can log in to the share and see a folder matching their user name.

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