I am running personal backup server on OMV2 for about 3 years without any problems.
Recently my media sharing server (cheap Zyxel NAS) died, so I decided to build another one on OMV.
Both servers (the old one and the new build) has almost the same specs: Asrock E350M, 4GB RAM, 2x4TB storage (old server) vs. Asrock C-70, 2GB RAM, 2x500GB storage (the new one).
The only difference is in the OMV version - I decided to try OMV3 on the new server and that was the problem. I was not able to access the server.
- both servers has assigned static IP on my local network,
- web GUI was accessible,
- I was able to ping the server by its IP, but not by its server name. The old server works both with IP and with server name,
- the server did not show up in Network listing on Windows 7,
- I've checked everything - firewall on Windows and router side, created shared folders, turned on samba, rebooted computer, rebooted router - nothing works.
So after one day of troubleshooting I decided to "downgrade" OMV3 to OMV2 and... everything works fine out-of-the-box.
The server is now using the same IP address and name as before with OMV3, but now I can see it in Network listing on Win7 (and on other devices too) and access all shared folders.
I don't know what was the problem, but it looks like a bug in OMV3.