Primarily for my own learning, but I am deeply confused why I had to create a second user just for SMB sharing.
On OMV
- I connected 2 fully wiped 4 TB HDDs
- Made a mirror in the Multiple devices menu
- Mounted a file system (XFS)
- Created a shared folder
- Gave read-write to my primary user in OMV
- Enabled SMB/CIFS
- Created the share
On Windows, on a wired network, where I had been happily ssh-ing into the same server all day
- Went to add a network location (map network drive wouldn't work)
- used \\SERVERIPADDRESS\\SHAREDFOLDERNAME (nothing else would work)
- Tried to log in with the main normal user that I've been using to log in to OMV. It looks like it's in the relevant groups. 1000% sure I used the right password. Windows said invalid credentials
- Went back to OMV, created some random user, gave it read/write to the shared folder and put it in a few random groups, repeated the steps above, and it would.
I know everything is supposed to be locked down and only 1 user can do 1 thing and files aren't supposed to be seen and all that, but I am genuinely confused why this didn't work, whether or not this was the 'right' way of doing this.
Apologies for the frustration. Thank you in advance.
