January 13, 20242 yr Hello, I am working on my backup strategy, and have built a second NAS for backup purposes. I have mounted the remote NFS shares in UnRAID (/mnt/remotes), but don't want to share them from UnRAID. All I want is to have Syncthing run as a user with full access to the files in my shares, and sync to the second machine (TrueNAS)... Well TrueNAS creates its own users... You can create a user there and set the UID/GID when you create the user... UnRAID... Not so much. When I initially created my users during UnRAID setup, it was "nice enough" to create those users with 1000, 1001, 1002, etc... Of course these now conflict with everything else I have set up on the network. This isn't a terrible thing day to day because we access everything with shares... but now for basic file sync outside the share functions, the UID/GID's won't match between the systems. Both systems share "root" with UID/GID's of zero. Any suggestions/caveats on how to do this securely? I could have Syncthing run as the root account so it is sure to copy everything, but I'd rather create a specific user for syncthing. The issue is that I don't see how to tell UnRAID what UID/GID to use. Is that even possible? Seems like basic server functionality to me, but it's not in the GUI as I can find. Any thoughts how to best accomplish this? Thanks!
January 14, 20242 yr Author BTW... This is pretty unhelpful. 😂 https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/users/
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