EricM Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 18 minutes ago, glennv said: Â Think about it, everything in unraid os is already dynamic as build up in memory. During boot zfs is installed every time from scratch . Then (if set as such) it will import all available pools . In the pool parameters the mountpoint is set (altroot) and used/created during import. so i tried it now and it worked, the zpool is niw importet to my new mountpoint /mnt/disks/zfs. Now i hope i will find an easy way (one that i understand) to show the zpool on my windwos explorer. Â And right now i noticed another thing. When i open up my windows explorer and browse to network and then my server, there is a share i made over a year ago but then deleted it. So the share is shown in the windows explorer but not in my unraid gui in the shares tab. But i am not able to delete the share or enter it in the explorer. how do i get rid of it? Quote Link to comment
glennv Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 check my previous screenshot for the content you can add to smb extra to share your zfs. Maybe the ghost share you see is also in there  So in your case you could add something like this: [My-AMAZING-ZFS-SHARE] path = /mnt/disks/zfs comment = browseable = yes # Public writeable = yes read list = write list = yourusername valid users = yourusername vfs objects =  Quote Link to comment
EricM Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 12 minutes ago, glennv said: check my previous screenshot for the content you can add to smb extra to share your zfs. Maybe the ghost share you see is also in there  So in your case you could add something like this: [My-AMAZING-ZFS-SHARE] path = /mnt/disks/zfs comment = browseable = yes # Public writeable = yes read list = write list = yourusername valid users = yourusername vfs objects =    In my case there is this: #unassigned_devices_start #Unassigned devices share includes include = /tmp/unassigned.devices/smb-settings.conf #unassigned_devices_end [Backup] path = /mnt/zfs public = yes export = yes browseable = yes writeable = yes create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 vfs objects =  what do i need to write exactly? And the ghost share is called Backup, is this this [Backup]? Quote Link to comment
glennv Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 7 minutes ago, EricM said:   In my case there is this: #unassigned_devices_start #Unassigned devices share includes include = /tmp/unassigned.devices/smb-settings.conf #unassigned_devices_end [Backup] path = /mnt/zfs public = yes export = yes browseable = yes writeable = yes create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 vfs objects =  what do i need to write exactly? And the ghost share is called Backup, is this this [Backup]? Yes indeed . Your ghost share is [Backup] Between brackets you define the name you want the share to be visible by in windows. So you could reuse that and just change the "path" variable underneath to the actual mountpoint of your zfs (eg /mnt/disks/zfs) The only thing extra i have (which you may or may not need) is write list = yourusername valid users = yourusername With yourusername to be replaced with your unraid share user you want it to have access to. Last thing you need to do is open up the permissions of the zfs mountpoint on unraid. chmod 777 /mnt/disks/zfs chown nobody:users /mnt/disks/zfs  Then restart samba (or the whole array ) Quote Link to comment
EricM Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, glennv said: Yes indeed . Your ghost share is [Backup] Between brackets you define the name you want the share to be visible by in windows. So you could reuse that and just change the "path" variable underneath to the actual mountpoint of your zfs (eg /mnt/disks/zfs) The only thing extra i have (which you may or may not need) is write list = yourusername valid users = yourusername With yourusername to be replaced with your unraid share user you want it to have access to. Last thing you need to do is open up the permissions of the zfs mountpoint on unraid. chmod 777 /mnt/disks/zfs chown nobody:users /mnt/disks/zfs  Then restart samba (or the whole array )   ok right now i got it like this: #unassigned_devices_start #Unassigned devices share includes include = /tmp/unassigned.devices/smb-settings.conf #unassigned_devices_end [zfs] path = /mnt/disks/zfs public = no export = yes browseable = yes writeable = yes write list = eric valid users = eric create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 vfs objects =  what do you mean with i need to p´open up the permissions? should i just type the two commands in the terminal? Quote Link to comment
EricM Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, EricM said:   ok right now i got it like this: #unassigned_devices_start #Unassigned devices share includes include = /tmp/unassigned.devices/smb-settings.conf #unassigned_devices_end [zfs] path = /mnt/disks/zfs public = no export = yes browseable = yes writeable = yes write list = eric valid users = eric create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 vfs objects =  what do you mean with i need to p´open up the permissions? should i just type the two commands in the terminal?  and also my mount point is a little bit weird. i mountet my zpool to /mnt/disks/zfs but now its combined with the old mount point. its /mnt/disks/zfs/mnt/user/zfs/finalfolder. But i want it like /mnt/disks/zfs/finalfolder. But i cant copy or paste or do anything there  Quote Link to comment
glennv Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 (edited) 17 minutes ago, EricM said:  and also my mount point is a little bit weird. i mountet my zpool to /mnt/disks/zfs but now its combined with the old mount point. its /mnt/disks/zfs/mnt/user/zfs/finalfolder. But i want it like /mnt/disks/zfs/finalfolder. But i cant copy or paste or do anything there  Then there is still something wrong with the mountpoint or you manualy mounted it using mount commands. You can see that if you check : zpool get altroot zfs There it should only show the root folder (zo without the name of the zfs) altroot "/mnt/disks" It will then always use the name of the zpool (in your case "zfs") to create the full mount path as /mnt/disks/zfs In there you will see the content of the pool. If it does not show that, export again and reimport using the commands given before. The import mounts it for you at the right place so no need to manualy mount it. I must admit i have had it in the past that it remembered the old mountpoint in the altroot value but a few export/imports solved it in the end i think Its best to already specify the right mountpoint during pool creation to prevent this , but it should be possible to adjust bu using export/import. If not and it gets messed up at every boot, you can add the 2 export/import commands to your go file (/boot/config/go) so it will do an export and import to the right mountpoint you want at boot.  If you want you can create a dataset named finalfolder in the zpool, which will then be mounted under /mnt/disks/zfs/finalfolder. datasets are sub devices in zpools with their own characteristics and they inherit the characteristics of the main pool unless set otherwise. You can simply create one (after you got the mountpoint sorted out to be /mnt/disks/zfs) by using the command. zfs create zfs/finalfolder    Edited September 17, 2021 by glennv Quote Link to comment
glennv Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 (edited) 23 minutes ago, EricM said:  what do you mean with i need to p´open up the permissions? should i just type the two commands in the terminal? yes Edited September 17, 2021 by glennv Quote Link to comment
EricM Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 1 minute ago, glennv said: yes ok, again thank you very much fort your help Quote Link to comment
glennv Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Your welcome. PLay with it and i thing with all the info sofar you will figure it out (and learn more about zfs in the process). I also started that way, step by step . But zfs and the commands (only 2 commands to do everything . zpool <blabla> and zfs <blabla>) are super simple and very well documented on the internet. Have fun learning. I have to do some other stuff so wont be repying today anymore. Have a great evening. Quote Link to comment
Solution EricM Posted September 17, 2021 Author Solution Share Posted September 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, glennv said: Your welcome. PLay with it and i thing with all the info sofar you will figure it out (and learn more about zfs in the process). I also started that way, step by step . But zfs and the commands (only 2 commands to do everything . zpool <blabla> and zfs <blabla>) are super simple and very well documented on the internet. Have fun learning. I have to do some other stuff so wont be repying today anymore. Have a great evening. Thanks you too Quote Link to comment
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