Incorrect share names

12.0 PR: https://github.com/freenas/ports/pull/844

I can't reproduce the behavior even following your steps let's schedule a teamviewer session so that I can see behavior 1st-hand. You can schedule by emailing me at awalker@ixsystems.com

Great! Thanks for posting the steps. I'll start working on a fix.

I managed to reliability reproduce it:

1. Perform a fresh install of TrueNAS-12.0-RC1.
2. Create user named "user".
3. Create a pool.
4. Create a dataset named "home_shares" with share type SMB. Apply the ACL preset "HOME" and save.
5. Create a dataset named "media" with share type SMB. Apply the ACL preset "OPEN" and save.
6. Create a new share named "media" with the default options.
7. Enable the SMB service when prompted after creating the media share.
8. Create a new share named "home_shares" with the purpose set to "Private SMB Datasets and Shares" and the "Use as Home Share" option enabled. Ignore the ACL editor that opens after creating the share.
9. On a Windows client, enter "\\<ip.of.server>\" at the run dialog and hit enter. Enter the username and password when prompted.
10. Go into the "user" share and create a file named "home".
11. Go back and into the "media" share and create a file named "media".
12. Close the File Explorer window.
13. Open services and restart the "Workstation" service (on the client).
14. Enter "\\<ip.of.server>\" at the run dialog and hit enter. Enter the username and password when prompted.
15. Go into the "user" and "media" shares and confirm they have the correct contents.
16. Close the File Explorer window.
17. Restart the "Workstation" service again.
18. Enter "\\<ip.of.server>\media" at the run dialog and hit enter. Enter the username and password when prompted.
19. The "media" share will open and it will contain the contents of the "user" share.
20. Repeat from step 12 as necessary.

The net cache flush did not help resolve the issue.   Disabling the per-user share did, however.

I believe that the problem is the per-user configuration which uses the [homes] section.  There is documentation on the Samba site that states this does not work well with Active Directory, and [users] is the appropriate way to configure per-user sharing going forwards.

The relevant documentation can be found here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/User_Home_Folders

I tried to find additional documentation around the [homes] section on the Samba site - though they have old examples that use it, I suspect that it is a now-broken configuration path with the latest versions of Samba.