SharedFolders are empty, newly created are not shown

Hi all,

one or two weeks ago I upgraded my OMV from 4.x to 5.x. Since the server is only running when I need it as a network storage, I cannot say, if the following behavior also existed directly after the update or just now.

Yesterday I created a new "Shared Folder" named "Fotos2". With the "Privileges" button I gave the folder the same privileg I already gave my "Fotos" folder -> Kodi ("ftp" is a member of this group) Group Read/Write permission (Because I use Kodi on my Raspberry Pi as my photo player).

Then I navigated into "FTP" -> "Shares" and added a "Fotos2"-Share.

Now, I wanted to use my new Fotos2 folder and upload the pictures from my nieces communion celebration on Sunday as root via WinScp. But what a pitty: I didn't see the Fotos2 folder in OMV's /sharedFolder folder. When I e.g. opened the Fotos folder, it was empty. I started extremely sweating, because I feared all my vacation, family photos,... could be lost (or at least those after the last backup).

In the shell (as root) I navigated to /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Disc6 and there, I was happy, my Fotos, etc. folders with all the content still existed.

Now I tried to find out, whether it's a permission problem and therefore looked at the permissions of /sharedFolder and its child folders, but all belong to root:users. But all the /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Disc* folders belong to root:root.

Any idea, how I can fix this? What would be the right permissions and can I set them via OMV or shall I do so via shell? Did I do something wrong or was it caused by the upgrade?

Thanks and kind regards,

Felix

Hello gderf,

thanks a lot!

What I don't understand is on the one hand this entry from the changelog:

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After installing this package your mounted filesystem configuration

might be broken. To fix that, you need to unmount and remount the

filesystems that are connected via this USB enclosure. If the

filesystem contains any shared folders, you can't unmount it, because

of that you need to delete all shared folders that are located on the

filesystem to be unmounted. That is only possible if the shared

folders are not used by any service, so make sure this applies to

these shared folders. After you've unmounted these filesystems in

the UI, apply the changes, reboot the system and then mount the

filesystems again. After that you can reconfigure your shared folders

and services from scratch. Sorry for this inconvenience.

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vs. what you wrote in the linked topic. For me the changelog sounds like, it's a bug, that the file system is broken and your post in the ticket looks like me, the use of the sharedFolder is a toggle I can switch on or off.

I don't need the sharedFolder anymore, if it's not the "natural" behavior of OMV. But I'm not so sure, how to correctly work in via WinScp and upload files. Shall I use directly /src/dev-disk-by-label-Disk* folders? Is that the correct way now? It works to upload the photos, but I'm not sure, if it's meant to be done like that.

Thanks and kind regards,

Felix

Hello gderf,

thanks a lot. Then I'll refer to the /src/dev-disk... folders and use them as entry point for Kodi, my WinScp uploadings, etc.

Kind regards,

Felix