Never mind, I spent another night reconfiguring it, and now it works. I agree with some of my pre-problem-havers - that it would be a good idea to make that part of OMV a lot "easier". Hide the ACL mechanics and all the Samba configuration, at least from the first level interface, because if you touch it once, it breaks it all.
All one needs really is creating samba shares and users and then give/deny access, using the privileges screen/mechanics. I would think, it covers 90% of people using this.
(But trying to figure out whether I want the samba to become local master browser ... just freaks me out! Samba and me will never be friends
As for solving my problems, here is what I did:
ACLs/Unix Permissions (is that btw the same?) - this here seems to be working for me, I changed the owner to root:users like so:
chown -R root:users /media/somelonggarblednamewithlotsofnumbers/Videos
And set the file permissions to 775:
chmod -R 775 /media/somelongnamewithlotsofnumbers/Videos
Some posts talk about an "ACL reset utility", I cannot seem to find that. Where exactly should it be and what do I do, if I don't have it?
This results into this:
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 root users 4096 Sep 16 2013 somedirectoryname
I then give access to the shares using permissions. ("papa" = "Read/Write"; "kid1" and "kid2" = "Read-only").
I then wanted to have certain sub folders in a share accessible by me, but not by my children. For that, I did use the ACL (just set "kid1" and "kid2" to "no access", left "papa" outouched, so there is nothing selected) and that does the trick.
I haven't tried to play with the host allow / deny fields, I might do that at some point.
During the process, I lost 4TB of movies by accidentially by deleting a vmdisk through deleting an old omv VM (my own fault, always read dialogs), so at the moment there is nothing to share (or deny), but that'll be filled up in no time
Well, there's nothing better than a good clean up every now and then!
crayfish