Well Mr. Lo-Res DIY.... I gotta thank you for this easy to follow video; I've tried several others which skips some steps in their video as they assumed the viewers understood what to do next. You took the time to literally go through step-by-step and I finally have a working share.... Thank you and you now have a new subscriber!
Hey man, thanks for all your work here. This video is the reason I now have a 40TB raidz2 NAS as someone who has never built a NAS, used Linux, done any kind of programming and has no idea how to use a terminal. Visual step by step was invaluable, cheers.
This video was excellent to watch for a first time TrueNAS user. I was able to get my server up and running, and had no issues. My version was a little bit newer than this video, but I was able to find everything I needed. Thanks for putting this together.
Thank you so much for your videos on Truenas Scale. Your videos have finally given me the confidence to migrate my Truenas Core server to Scale and it was great. For what I use, the scale apps are much easier than maintaining the core jails. Thank you.
Thanks man, this helps a lot! I was stucked for a moment until I realised after installation I could just ignore it (I'm installing using rufus and installed it on my C: drive on a desktop, I don't know that after that at the configuration page, we could just ignore and use it right away on google to ip address), that's why now it quite make sense that we don't need a screen after the setup. But all an all, hope we can get an upcoming content on how to set it up with phone usable. Thank you again my man!👍👍
Awesome video, I don't leave too many comments but your style was very easy to follow. I got up and running with one playthrough of your video. Thank you!
Scale was a bit different in the UI when I was following this, but I was able to figure out enough to get my first server going. Thanks a bunch for the video, it really helped me get it running the way I needed it to.
I set up trunas scale over a month ago and I could not map a network drive accessible through windows 10 to save my life. Every time I got "network folder not accessible". I deleted all the datasets and users and storage and started again. Watched 6+ hours of tutorials on youtube and still nothing. I want to thank you SO MUCH, after watching your video, I realized that my permissions for owner were not correct and I changed them and now I have a mapped network drive and access on my local network. I am currently working on getting my emby server up and running, and I cannot figure out how to access media/storage from the nas mapped drive through the app media share. I've tried \\192...\storage... and mnt\storage... but I will keep looking. I appreciate you making this video and clearly stating each step so that people like me can understand.
Glad it helped. When you are installing the Emby app there should be a section called "Storage". Click the Add button and in the section "Mount Path in Pod" input the name of the directory of you media i.e. /mnt or /media. In "Host Path" drill down to the data set you media is stored in. Then when creating a library in Emby go to that directory. Hopefully this helps you out. Cheers!
A tip I just came across... If you're getting the "Bad shim signature" error, turn off Secure Boot. In older BIOS' like mine, this was achieved by switching Secure Boot from "windows" to "other OS". Hope this helps someone else!
Hey Man, great video, definitely answered some questions I had with permissions. I am having an issue with mounting a networked smb drive TO my truenas scale system so that I could use it within plex (hosted on the truenas docker). Would love to see a video about that, as there doesn't seem to be many out there.
8:45 Any kind of hand holding is appreciated. I going to go with z1 as one drive of paraity or what have you is fine, I'll start with three drives, then when I can free up two other drives of their data I'd like to expand the pool to 5 drives. I also have a 500GB SSD to act as storage for Apps, but I saw your test pools so I'm presuming you'll be setting up that way shortly as I saw one pool named apps TL;DR I would like to know what's going on with the machine, so yes please
Good video I think you are the only one that's ever used the quick boot menu, others lead people into the bios just to boot the install stick. Only thing I think could have been changed is wiping the test disk to eliminate the optional install choices, but still a good video. Was wondering if you have ever tried Ventoy for USB install stick, it's the only boot stick you'll ever need, as it allows for the drop and drag of images.
12:25 if I understand correctly, the Microsoft Account option is only needed if you're logging into a client PC using an online account. If you're using a local login, this option doesn't need to be checked?
Great video, thanks, I have followed the instructions but when I reboot it tells me: no bootable devices so I go in my bios I see : TrunNAS-0 as boot sequence on top, so not sure, I have ran the USB installation twice? Any ideas?
So, once I create my pool and add an user to it, and everything as you did - Can I/ Should I create a different pool for movies and install Plex on it? My goal is to use truenas as a data storage and also I want to run a plex player, but I don't want my data to be shown for everyone who watch the tv? What is the best way to doing it? Create a different user? Or different pool ? How can I differentiate the 2?
Good morning. I am at a conundrum for testing purposes only I set up true Nas scale on a virtual machine in the cloud and the IP address that was given to me I can login the webpage and access it. No problem I can also access that same IP address to my machine to access the data off of the drive, however, if I take this machine outside of my home, Netwerk, I am unable to access the IP address that was assigned to the machine. Is this a flaw in truenas scale that people are unaware of?
Thank you so much for your tutorial about TrueNAS SCALE. But actually I need some custom config for multi-users for access single dataset, how do we do it? how to set multi-permissions on single dataset. Thanks
Question: Is the reason that TrueNas Scale require 2 HDD of the same size because it is using for storage ? If so then you would need 2 drives for each addl piece of storage that you add into the system, am I understanding that right ?
It creates a copy of the os so if one boot drive fails, it has another to boot from. It makes little sense to have your main array to be redundant but if your operating system drive goes bad you're dead in the water
I like the eye candy of TrueNAS and the simplicity of TrueNAS Scale with their better VM support. However, I am not a business so I choose using Proxmox and managing my own ZFS multiple vdev pools/raidz setup and then using an LXC Debian hosting the passed through (your video helped me on that) raidz passed through for a simple Samba server. I have tried numerous NAS operating systems to include TrueNAS Scale and find myself wishing for eye candy with simplistic sharing without the extra overhead of things I don't need. I guess this is why I like Proxmox as it is minimalist with the ability to build it the way you want. I just wish that Windows did not have issues with activating on Proxmox. Those who get their Windows activated seem to be lucky.
Can I add new drives whenever I want after installing TrueNAS or must they all be present that you are to use when you install TrueNAS? For example, say I set up TrueNAS and then later hook up 2 new SATA drives I want to use in their own pool. That's fine, right?
Is the dual drives an absolute requirement? I've tried upgrade and fresh install from core to scale and my server stops mid way during the boot sequence and never gets to the last screen
After install, I see startup scripts, then my integrated nic gets disconnected, before a black screen. Running msi b550 tomahawk max wifi mobo Ryzen 7 5700g cpu 2x 32gb ddr4 Crucial memory (prob not relevant) 2 12tb seagate nas drives And 2... uh - fanxiang... 128gb boot ssd's, "mirrored" during install If anyone can offer fixes, or suggestions I'd really appreciate it
Just in case no one else has answered you. ZFS pools exist on the drives independent of the boot drives. You can install any ZFS aware OS and import the pools on install. That’s one of the beauties of ZFS. Your data is fine.
Great info but had to search my system as it is version 22.12.2 and is laid out different than yours. Stuff was in different places but after watching a small section of your video and clicking around on my install was able to find the area you were demoing, same info just different location in the GUI.
Do you have or plan to do any videos on setting up FTP/SFTP on TrueNAS Scale? I need to give someone some file access but I dont want them to see all of my shares
Great video, but there is something I don't understand: How did you go from the install of TrueNas to Chrome? Did you access it from another computer, like an operating system? Is it installed on your computer with TrueNas? forgive me if this question is so basic, but I am a true noob at this.
@@LoResDIY ok, so you can't plug up a monitor to your TrueNas machine and run it from the GUI? You need to have another computer that you can use to dial into the TrueNas machine and access the system?
@@LoResDIY Ok, I get that part. I studied for a CCNA some years back, so I have worked on server equipment, and yes, they are very loud. But, what I'm trying to say is when you boot up TrueNas, what command or what option do you select from the menu that puts you in the GUI?
@@LoResDIY Well I am trying to set up noVNC so I can have a window display set up for both Linux Mint 20 & BATOCERA on 2 separate VM's. I seem to have the App installed, I setup a 256gig SSD & used the trick to setup the rest of the drive as an internal storage pool; and shows that it is running. but when I go to say the Linux Mint setup, all I show is the BASH terminal no VNC option... Probably something really stupid of me that I am missing. Ultimately I want to be able to have BATOCERA running my Roms collection & Mint on the 2nd VM just as a general File server with a nice DE & obviously more storage once I figure this out. Thank you for the Reply!!
@@LoResDIY OR can I install the OS I would like on a HDD as SATA0, Get it all set up the way I would like, then move it to SATA1, boot into FreeNAS, and bring the HDD in as a Pool that will boot into the Pre-Installed OS?
This interface is TrueNAS core . Trunas Scale looks quite a bit different on latest version and its menues , options and funcionality is quite different . Also , you are using Linux based server OS but not going trough how to set up UNIX shares for those who use Linux . Unix shares to set up are different from SMB . ALso SMB is pure garbage , but its OK for Windows users accesing TrueNas server . But for Linux users , why in the hell would they use SMB over NFS / UNIX shares ? Its counter intutive . Also your mugg bubble is in the way of everything and no one can see what you are doing . Quite annoying .
Completely outdated video, too fast, skipping things and total chaos. Sure, with 5 years experience running through a basic setup is a waste of time to watch.
Well Mr. Lo-Res DIY.... I gotta thank you for this easy to follow video; I've tried several others which skips some steps in their video as they assumed the viewers understood what to do next. You took the time to literally go through step-by-step and I finally have a working share.... Thank you and you now have a new subscriber!
Great to hear!
Cheers
Hey man, thanks for all your work here. This video is the reason I now have a 40TB raidz2 NAS as someone who has never built a NAS, used Linux, done any kind of programming and has no idea how to use a terminal.
Visual step by step was invaluable, cheers.
Glad I could help
Cheers!
This video was excellent to watch for a first time TrueNAS user. I was able to get my server up and running, and had no issues. My version was a little bit newer than this video, but I was able to find everything I needed. Thanks for putting this together.
This was a super-helpful video for getting my first TrueNAS install set up and sharing out to the network. Thanks!
Thank you so much for your videos on Truenas Scale. Your videos have finally given me the confidence to migrate my Truenas Core server to Scale and it was great. For what I use, the scale apps are much easier than maintaining the core jails. Thank you.
As others have said, this is the perfect, exemplary quick-start guide for first-timers like myself. Cheers LoRes!
Cheers
Thanks man, this helps a lot! I was stucked for a moment until I realised after installation I could just ignore it (I'm installing using rufus and installed it on my C: drive on a desktop, I don't know that after that at the configuration page, we could just ignore and use it right away on google to ip address), that's why now it quite make sense that we don't need a screen after the setup. But all an all, hope we can get an upcoming content on how to set it up with phone usable. Thank you again my man!👍👍
Cheers
Awesome video, I don't leave too many comments but your style was very easy to follow. I got up and running with one playthrough of your video. Thank you!
Glad it helped.
Cheers
Scale was a bit different in the UI when I was following this, but I was able to figure out enough to get my first server going. Thanks a bunch for the video, it really helped me get it running the way I needed it to.
Thank you so much for explaining this is such simple terms.
I set up trunas scale over a month ago and I could not map a network drive accessible through windows 10 to save my life. Every time I got "network folder not accessible". I deleted all the datasets and users and storage and started again. Watched 6+ hours of tutorials on youtube and still nothing. I want to thank you SO MUCH, after watching your video, I realized that my permissions for owner were not correct and I changed them and now I have a mapped network drive and access on my local network. I am currently working on getting my emby server up and running, and I cannot figure out how to access media/storage from the nas mapped drive through the app media share. I've tried \\192...\storage... and mnt\storage... but I will keep looking. I appreciate you making this video and clearly stating each step so that people like me can understand.
Glad it helped.
When you are installing the Emby app there should be a section called "Storage". Click the Add button and in the section "Mount Path in Pod" input the name of the directory of you media i.e. /mnt or /media. In "Host Path" drill down to the data set you media is stored in. Then when creating a library in Emby go to that directory.
Hopefully this helps you out.
Cheers!
dude thank you so much you have fixed a 2 month process cos i wanted to work it out but i was so far off ahah
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much for your helping me to create share folders.Greetings from Greece.
Glad it helped.
Cheers
A tip I just came across... If you're getting the "Bad shim signature" error, turn off Secure Boot. In older BIOS' like mine, this was achieved by switching Secure Boot from "windows" to "other OS". Hope this helps someone else!
Best beginner tutorial . Thanks
Thank You
Hey Man, great video, definitely answered some questions I had with permissions. I am having an issue with mounting a networked smb drive TO my truenas scale system so that I could use it within plex (hosted on the truenas docker). Would love to see a video about that, as there doesn't seem to be many out there.
8:45 Any kind of hand holding is appreciated. I going to go with z1 as one drive of paraity or what have you is fine, I'll start with three drives, then when I can free up two other drives of their data I'd like to expand the pool to 5 drives. I also have a 500GB SSD to act as storage for Apps, but I saw your test pools so I'm presuming you'll be setting up that way shortly as I saw one pool named apps
TL;DR I would like to know what's going on with the machine, so yes please
Good video I think you are the only one that's ever used the quick boot menu, others lead people into the bios just to boot the install stick. Only thing I think could have been changed is wiping the test disk to eliminate the optional install choices, but still a good video. Was wondering if you have ever tried Ventoy for USB install stick, it's the only boot stick you'll ever need, as it allows for the drop and drag of images.
I'm stuck in the POSIX permissions menu so like the ACL editor but I want to see the Unix permissions window again?
12:25 if I understand correctly, the Microsoft Account option is only needed if you're logging into a client PC using an online account. If you're using a local login, this option doesn't need to be checked?
Thank you for the great explanation. I have a question regarding the truenas. Do we have a safe mode in truenas
Can't find microsoft account tick box in add user page, please help
I had a problem with this part 5:28. The Username is admin instead of root.
Great video, thanks, I have followed the instructions but when I reboot it tells me: no bootable devices so I go in my bios I see : TrunNAS-0 as boot sequence on top, so not sure, I have ran the USB installation twice? Any ideas?
awesome video! thanks for making this!
No problem!
When you “hopped over to Chrome” after installing TrueNas, was this on a separate computer or on the one you have the flash drive in?
Go to a separate computer and type in the ip address given to earlier during setup
Thank you, keep up the good work!!
Thanks, will do!
Cheers
Please make a video about the raid options!
So, once I create my pool and add an user to it, and everything as you did - Can I/ Should I create a different pool for movies and install Plex on it? My goal is to use truenas as a data storage and also I want to run a plex player, but I don't want my data to be shown for everyone who watch the tv? What is the best way to doing it? Create a different user? Or different pool ? How can I differentiate the 2?
Good morning. I am at a conundrum for testing purposes only I set up true Nas scale on a virtual machine in the cloud and the IP address that was given to me I can login the webpage and access it. No problem I can also access that same IP address to my machine to access the data off of the drive, however, if I take this machine outside of my home, Netwerk, I am unable to access the IP address that was assigned to the machine. Is this a flaw in truenas scale that people are unaware of?
thankyou it was a great help
quick dumb question, I assume truenas scale keeps the IP static automatically right?
Great simple walkthrough
Thank you
Can you create a video on how to install nvidia drivers on Truenas Scales.
Thank you so much for your tutorial about TrueNAS SCALE. But actually I need some custom config for multi-users for access single dataset, how do we do it? how to set multi-permissions on single dataset. Thanks
Bonjour, faut-il installer un antivirus, ou il y a aucun risque en sachant que les fichiers sont isoler de windows. Merci de votre avis
Question: Is the reason that TrueNas Scale require 2 HDD of the same size because it is using for storage ? If so then you would need 2 drives for each addl piece of storage that you add into the system, am I understanding that right ?
It creates a copy of the os so if one boot drive fails, it has another to boot from. It makes little sense to have your main array to be redundant but if your operating system drive goes bad you're dead in the water
Excellent Video
Thank you very much!
Great video! Thank you!!
Thanks Cheers
Can use TruNas software to replace my operating system on Qnap ts932px? I would to use this seems more secure. My nas has 1 2tb ssd and 3 16gb sata.
There is no list of pools for me.
I have a problem where my disk doesn’t show in the create pool
Make sure it is formatted.
thank you for the tutorial ! ;)
Cheers
fyi - 22.02.03 the "test" is no longer there under configure/Storage Widgets
Really helpful video
I tried to install true nas but i juste get fips self test failure and it just don’t boot, any sugestion?
Were you able to solve this?
@@6thhokagealwaysYeah I solved it by remaking a new bootable usb, installing again truenas and deactivate secure boot in the bios
I like the eye candy of TrueNAS and the simplicity of TrueNAS Scale with their better VM support. However, I am not a business so I choose using Proxmox and managing my own ZFS multiple vdev pools/raidz setup and then using an LXC Debian hosting the passed through (your video helped me on that) raidz passed through for a simple Samba server. I have tried numerous NAS operating systems to include TrueNAS Scale and find myself wishing for eye candy with simplistic sharing without the extra overhead of things I don't need. I guess this is why I like Proxmox as it is minimalist with the ability to build it the way you want. I just wish that Windows did not have issues with activating on Proxmox. Those who get their Windows activated seem to be lucky.
Just activate your Windows with "Microsoft Activation Script" or called "MAS".
Can I add new drives whenever I want after installing TrueNAS or must they all be present that you are to use when you install TrueNAS? For example, say I set up TrueNAS and then later hook up 2 new SATA drives I want to use in their own pool. That's fine, right?
yes your scenario is possible, you don't need extra drives to do a system install, you'll need drives when you want to start creating datasets.
Thanks for helping
Handy tutorial - thanks
Cheers
Question:
Do I have to format the hard drives first before installation, or can TrueNas format them in the installation process?
truenas can do it
Is the dual drives an absolute requirement? I've tried upgrade and fresh install from core to scale and my server stops mid way during the boot sequence and never gets to the last screen
also will it support UEFI or will the primary boot drives need to support legacy?
After install, I see startup scripts, then my integrated nic gets disconnected, before a black screen.
Running msi b550 tomahawk max wifi mobo
Ryzen 7 5700g cpu
2x 32gb ddr4 Crucial memory (prob not relevant)
2 12tb seagate nas drives
And 2... uh - fanxiang... 128gb boot ssd's, "mirrored" during install
If anyone can offer fixes, or suggestions I'd really appreciate it
Good video thank you.
Thank you
Cheers
Thanks for the vid. I have a question. My boot drive disk died. How do I recover the data In my pools? Thanks I’m advance!
Just in case no one else has answered you. ZFS pools exist on the drives independent of the boot drives. You can install any ZFS aware OS and import the pools on install. That’s one of the beauties of ZFS. Your data is fine.
Gregory hit the nail on the head.
Great info but had to search my system as it is version 22.12.2 and is laid out different than yours. Stuff was in different places but after watching a small section of your video and clicking around on my install was able to find the area you were demoing, same info just different location in the GUI.
Do you have or plan to do any videos on setting up FTP/SFTP on TrueNAS Scale? I need to give someone some file access but I dont want them to see all of my shares
Not at the moment.
I can't login from my pc browser. But it's work from my smart phone. Solved this issue plz.
Did you enter the url as (youripaddress) ?
What browser are you using?
Great video, but there is something I don't understand:
How did you go from the install of TrueNas to Chrome? Did you access it from another computer, like an operating system? Is it installed on your computer with TrueNas?
forgive me if this question is so basic, but I am a true noob at this.
The computer I installed Truenas on has an IDRAC in it which allows me to control it remotely.
@@LoResDIY ok, so you can't plug up a monitor to your TrueNas machine and run it from the GUI? You need to have another computer that you can use to dial into the TrueNas machine and access the system?
No I can plug a monitor into it, but it is so loud that I have it in another room. Lots of commercial grade servers have this feature.
@@LoResDIY Ok, I get that part. I studied for a CCNA some years back, so I have worked on server equipment, and yes, they are very loud.
But, what I'm trying to say is when you boot up TrueNas, what command or what option do you select from the menu that puts you in the GUI?
Im trying to get this setup, Trying to Setup Up 2 Linux VM's & File Server on a AMD quad core x64
Where are you falling short?
@@LoResDIY Well I am trying to set up noVNC so I can have a window display set up for both Linux Mint 20 & BATOCERA on 2 separate VM's.
I seem to have the App installed, I setup a 256gig SSD & used the trick to setup the rest of the drive as an internal storage pool; and shows that it is running.
but when I go to say the Linux Mint setup, all I show is the BASH terminal no VNC option...
Probably something really stupid of me that I am missing.
Ultimately I want to be able to have BATOCERA running my Roms collection & Mint on the 2nd VM just as a general File server with a nice DE & obviously more storage once I figure this out.
Thank you for the Reply!!
@@LoResDIY OR can I install the OS I would like on a HDD as SATA0, Get it all set up the way I would like, then move it to SATA1, boot into FreeNAS, and bring the HDD in as a Pool that will boot into the Pre-Installed OS?
I would be interested in learning about Raids as I’m new to all this but find it all interested.
Good video
Great 👍 vid
Newby question, is this TrueNas Scale 100% free?
Yep
thanks
Cheers
vdevs more information plase ;=)
Your mail is showing @12.40
Got it.
Thank You!
user name as of today is admin
This interface is TrueNAS core . Trunas Scale looks quite a bit different on latest version and its menues , options and funcionality is quite different . Also , you are using Linux based server OS but not going trough how to set up UNIX shares for those who use Linux . Unix shares to set up are different from SMB . ALso SMB is pure garbage , but its OK for Windows users accesing TrueNas server . But for Linux users , why in the hell would they use SMB over NFS / UNIX shares ? Its counter intutive . Also your mugg bubble is in the way of everything and no one can see what you are doing . Quite annoying .
Thanks for the feed back, and love the mug bubble.
Completely outdated video, too fast, skipping things and total chaos. Sure, with 5 years experience running through a basic setup is a waste of time to watch.