If either of you can provide accurate and functioning instructions how to install with the plugin I'd use it. Even though my past experience with plugins on TrueNAS is that they can have hard to debug issues. I set it up this morning using the only instructions I could find mixing in some knowledge of how it works and got no answer when I attempted to connect via the web. Possibly this is an issue with the Channels code on AMD processors or possibly I did something wrong.
As I'm extremally experienced with Windows and storage, setting up the VM to access the NAS via SMB was Childs play. Not the case for me with the plugin.