HP ProLiant Gen8: SAMBA and Permissions Issues

Hey everyone

Accessing SAMBA via \\OPENMEDIAVAULT works, but for an individual folder I get the error "Windows cannot access \\openmediavault\Downloads". I then checked the permissions for the users again, but they all should have access. When resetting the permissions it seems to work:

Clearing ACLs ...
Changing owner to root:users ...
Change directory permissions to 2775 ...
Change file permissions to 664 ...
Done...

But in the system log, I get the message omv-engined[11063]: Failed to write to socket: Broken pipe whenever I apply "reset permissions"

I don't really understand the concept behind it though: If I click on "reset permissions" they are changed for all shares in the list, not just the one I selected.

Thanks in advance for any hints or solutions.

Ok, thank you for the clarification!

I once again removed all the shares, users, disabled/enabled SMB and used a different laptop to login, but still no luck. I still get "Windows cannot access \\openmediavault\Downloads" and omv-engined[6074]: Failed to write to socket: Broken pipe in OMV systemlog

Should I try reinstalling or do you have any other ideas?

EDIT: Changing the SMB settings to "only guests" didn't work either

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to when you say "authorization to users". I added one user as part of the group "users" and gave it the necessary permissions (Read/Write). I then tried using the "reset permissions" tab under "file systems", which yields the error omv-engined[6074]: Failed to write to socket: Broken pipe. Is there anything else I need to pay attention to? It is quite frustrating, as I have tried many different things over the last couple of hours.

SMB is running according to services and I also restarted it via SSH to make sure (service samba restart).

EDIT: OMV is running on HP ProLiant Gen8 G1610T and I set up a RAID6 using 4x3TB WD RED HDDs

Sorry, I was taking a bit longer to reply and your answer wasn't there before.

As I mentioned above:
"OMV is running on HP ProLiant Gen8 G1610T and I set up a RAID6 using 4x3TB WD RED HDDs"

I installed OMV on a flash drive and used the privileges, I haven't touch ACL at all.

That would be a shame, as it looks a lot nicer not having an external HDD lying around. What is the reason for this? I read that HDD would be better than flash drive, but not that it doesn't work.

Having spent several hours setting everything up once again, this time using a 2.5" HDD, I am at exactly the same point. Same behaviour and error messages - so it wasn't due to the flash drive. I also checked on a Linux machine, but couldn't login either. Any further ideas? Could it help to delete the RAID and set it up again?

Btw: The Gen8 doesn't natively support 2.5" HDDs in the ODD bay (see here)

The filesystem is ext4 (the default option if I'm not mistaken?).

That's what I did, but it would be a lot nicer if HP had thought of ways to attach it to the casing.

Combing through the forums, I found this reply indicating that there was some issue back in 2013.

Could it be that this still hasn't been resolved? After some research, I found out that the network controller is a NC332i Broadcom BCM5720 and that the driver can be downloaded here. As I'm rather new to Linux... How should I go about it, if I had to install this?

EDIT: I solved it by setting up the RAID and the filesystem again. I suspect that it may have to do with the fact that I encountered some issues when I tried creating the root directory as the shared folder.