Newbie Help -- How to Get Started

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to the world of NAS, so some total n00b questions here.

I have OpenMediaVault running on an old Dell XPS435 MT. It's got an i7 quad core, 12GB of RAM and a 1TB ATA internal drive which is where I've got OMV installed. (I know the specs are a bit much for this purpose, but it used to be my primary machine).

I also have hooked up two 1TB external drives and one 2TB external drive.

I managed to install OMV onto the Dell box from a USB stick.

Now I'm back at my laptop and I can access the web GUI via the IP address. I've logged in using the default admin credentials.

I want to set up Network drives so that I and others in my household can access them from our laptops.

We are a mix of PCs and Macs, so I understand that I need to create some NFS shares?

When I try to do that under the services section in the web interface, I go to

Add Share
[green + sign] next to shared folder
New dialog box -- Add a shared folder

Then, in the "Volume" drop down, I don't get any volumes listed. It feels like I'm stuck at this point, and I'm not sure what do do next.

My question is, what do I do from here?

All I really want to get started is to create some drives that we can access from our laptops on the home network. I don't see any of the physical hard drives attached to OMV showing up as available drives in my Finder on my Mac, so I am assuming I need to do something further in the web GUI, but as mentioned above I can't sort out what my next steps should be.

Thanks for the help!

Hi ryecoaaron,

Thanks a lot for the response -- I will check it out when I get home today.

From memory yesterday, I did see my three external drives listed as "online" under filesystems, but when I tried to create shared folders, I ran into the problem where there aren't any volumes listed. I'm not sure why they aren't appearing there.

But I will have another look tonight.

Thanks.

OK, you're right ryecoaaron -- they are not mounted.

However, now I'm having trouble mounting them :?

When I select a filesystem and click "Mount", I get the following errors (screenshot below).

Any help much appreciated!

Trying it again, and I this time get the error message:

The configuration object is not unique: A mount point already exists for the given filesystem

Hi tekkbebe,

I don't have an android but I took some screenshots from my laptop -- hope this works just as well.

I just couldn't find cd/media in the web UI -- where is it located please?

Thank you very much in advance for any help.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

@tekkbebe, I put in the DNS details for primary and secondary as mentioned, but unfortunately the same error message appears when I try to mount filesystems.

I've used Putty perhaps once before but I could figure it out if need be. Let me know if there is something to try.

ryecoaaron, to run command line commands, do I go to the actual machine where OMV is installed and type in "cd /media"?

I tried doing that, but I'm not sure how to interpret the results (see image below).

Thanks again for the help.

Hi guys,

Apologies for the delay. I still very much want to get this sorted out.

Please find below an image from the command line (tried to run this as best as I could) as well as screen shots of the file systems and physical disks sections of the web GUI.

(Note -- the images appear to get cropped when viewed inline but if you save them you can see it all)

Thanks again for the help!