truenas scale

Hi chaps, Having a strange issue where my Intel T540-X2 nic won't seem to show it's full capabilities inside my TrueNAS Scale VM. Its using a Virtio driver. connected to a 10Gb switch. Ethtool on Proxmox host shows the correct linkmode, duplex and speed. Ethtool inside TrueNAS shows...

I am wondering the best approach to provide access to my remote file systems. I run into permissions issues regardless so I would like to confirm the approach to share access to files located on my trueNAS scale server. I have the file structure already setup and in use already by TrueNas scale...