Thank you for coming back.
This matter was becoming urgent here, we need the NAS. So I decided to use another approach for ruling out possible causes.
I got the latest Rasbian (btw. I love it - a wonderful piece of software) and installed Samba on it. Then I did several hours of reading
the Samba documentation and finally I set up a Samba share in my LAN. No problems the results were perfect. The share came up on all
machines/all OS, runs stable and accepts files of 8G (the biggest I tested). So hardware seems to be out of the equation.
To answer your latest suggestions:
The English screen shot is no problem. Using Linux for years I am well aware of permissions and turned everything I could find to 777 via
CLI (disregarding security). I even changed the owner to make sure.
It is really the login to the share (user/pw) that fails and fast enough to make me think the account does not even exist. I followed the
guide Heise published and, with all the screenshots they took, they really tried that out. So i am confident I had the user set up correct
and gave permissions.
So, what remains:
- changes in omv from 3.0.5 (heise used) to 3.0.8 (the one I installed) maybe within the default smb.conf ?
- remains of the last installation? new SD card / new download / different settings for all user/pw and names
- The USB-stick (SanDisk Extreme 32G) may be a bit touchy but works with my bare metal Samba
I give that problem a ????? rating.
For the time being I shall use my running solution. It is stable, fairly fast and I can arrange tight security.
OMV is a mistery to me, documentation is in parts a matter of luck (as many good open SW products)
Nevertheless I intend to dig into this problem later this year and with a new Rev. of OMV.
Good bye and thanks for helping