Setting up TrueNAS Scale ...
The story so far ... Getting the software installed and running was pretty easy (see post above).
I jumped around a bit ... but here is what I managed to knock off tonight ...
ToDo List
BTW - one of my NVMe drives has a heat sink on it, the other is nude. SmartCtrl reports the temps as 40°C and 38°C. Maybe I don't need the heatsink.
The story so far ... Getting the software installed and running was pretty easy (see post above).
I jumped around a bit ... but here is what I managed to knock off tonight ...
- host name - this is under Network / Global Configuration
I have changed it to 'TrueNAS-Scale-Prod'
Apparently ' ' are not allowed ... hence the '-'s.
TrueNAS Scale Configuration - create gmail account to hold all of the NAS reports, config files, etc
sent a test email - it worked, eventually
- Created an Admin group (gave it full local admin)
- Created a User group (gave it read only admin)
- Created a MEAdmin user (part of the Admin group)
This user does the admin stuff in TrueNAS- create datasets
- set up scripts
- tests scripts
- putty's into the system
- etc
- Created a ME user (part of the user group)
This user does the windows interaction with the network stuff- maps to shares
- downloads bits of software, manuals, apps for Windows
- etc
- tested the putty situation
- this was a pain
- had to enable SSH
- had to turn it on for the admin user
- had to move that admin user to the right shell
- had to find out what was the right shell for me (BASH - I like that the command line tells you where you are)
- created two pools (finally!)
- data pool on spinning disks
- meta data pool on NVMe
- created a share ... but not of the pool - oh, no, you can't do that (apparently, this is considered bad form)
- stopped for the night when I realized that I will need to rethink my pool structure
ToDo List
- Devise pool structure that will work for me
- create pool structure
- Plex App
- split media from metadata
- install GPU and test with Plex
- MAC OS Sharing for others in the household
- port over my BASH scripts that monitor my server
BTW - one of my NVMe drives has a heat sink on it, the other is nude. SmartCtrl reports the temps as 40°C and 38°C. Maybe I don't need the heatsink.