Advice on accessing folders / recovering files from external hard drive.

My Question:

Is there a way I can access the folders that were password protected on OMV when the storage hard drive is connected to a system running desktop ubuntu?

Additional Background Information:
I set up Open Media Vault with storage set to an external hard drive.

The external hard drive is formatted to ext4.

My Open Media Vault install has become corrupt so I have connected the external hard drive to another Linux system running desktop ubuntu.

The folders that didn't have a password set, I can access them when connecting the external hard drive to the Ubuntu desktop system.

I can see the folders that with a password, but I can not access them when connecting the external hard drive to the Ubuntu desktop system.

• Is there a way I can access the folders that were password protected on OMV when the storage hard drive is connected to a system running desktop ubuntu?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Zitat von macom

How did you do the password protection?

macom I set up password protection inside the web gui of OMV

I think I followed this guide (or something very similar) from TechnoDadLife to set up the folders with password protection -

Zitat von macom

You should be able to access the folder as root (with elevated privileges).

Still strange, as according to the video you just used smb to access the folders. And smb settings have no effect on file system level.

> You should be able to access the folder as root (with elevated privileges)

Can you provide me with instructions on what it is I need to do to access the folder as root (with elevated privileges) please?

Here is my current set up,

- I'm logged in to Linux Ubuntu as the root user.

- My external HD that contains my password protected folder is connected via USB to the Linux Ubuntu system.

What do I need to do to access the folder as root (with elevated privileges)?

Thank you for your help macom