Beiträge von jsimmonstx

  • Can't see Existing Folders

    I have five analog drives, each are 2TB to 3TB. The volume labels are "Media_1" through "Media_5"


    All of the drives have a single EXT4 partition consuming all of the space on the drive.


    All of the drives have existing data (the three folders I mentioned in my prior message, along with files in those folders).


    I created one share for each of the drives ("Media1" through "Media5") (set read/write to everyone).


    I added these shares to the SMB service (public and with inheritance turned on).


    When I browse the shares in Windows, I can see the server and the shares.


    However, when I browse to a given share, I cannot see the folders that already exist.


    I suspect it might be a permissions problem, but I'm not sure (and I don't understand why that would be the case since I setup the entire partition as a single share).

  • Can't see Existing Folders

    I did that. The shares show up in windows, but I can't see the existing folders in the share.


    I see this:


    OMVMedia
    |
    + Media2
    + Media3


    Both Media2 and Media3 have the following folders

    Media2
    |
    + Movies
    + TV Shows
    + Music


    But I don't see those three folders under either of the shares.

  • Can't see Existing Folders

    So I have to share the existing folders separately?


    I thought I could get away with sharing the root of the partition... Maybe I did that part incorrectly?


    I'll ave to wait until I get home to check out the videos. I watched a couple of the tech dad videos to get to where I am. There's nothing there (that I saw) though about setting up shares that already have an established folder hierarchy.

  • Can't see Existing Folders

    I have managed to get shares configured, but when I browse the shares from Windows, I can't see folders that already exist on the shares. I have not yet tried it from another Linux box. I did't want to try creating a new folder until I was sure it wouldn't somehow prevent me from getting to the folders I can't currently see.


    I feel like I'm close, but I don't know what I haven't done.

  • Soft reset failed (device not ready)

    Motherboard: ASUS AM3A78-EM
    RAM: 8gb
    CPU: AMD 5050e
    Boot Drive: Transcend 64GB SSD
    Other drives: four 1tb Seagate analog drives (all formatted to ext4)
    No IDE drives are connected
    SATA configuration is AHCI


    I've successfully installed and booted to Ubuntu 18.04, Lubuntu 18.04, and Mint Cinnamon 19 with the configuration shown above.


    OMV (4.13) appears to install fine, but when I boot after installation, I get "Soft reset failed (device not ready)" on ALL of the drives. How is it possible that it can install, but not boot?

  • New OMV User

    My NAS History


    My first NAS install happened about seven years ago, and used FreeNAS with NFS partitions. I upgraded to a newer version of FreeNAS, and found out after the fact that the new version no longer supported NFS partitions, and it ticked me off enough to install Win7 on the box because I could no longer download the old version of FreeNAS.


    The current state of Windows has caused me to reconsider Linux as a viable alternative to the crap that comes out of Redmond, and I've been using Linux for the last two weeks with no apparent ill effects, so... I'm currently on a Linux death march to rid myself of Windows to the extent possible. I still do dev for Windows and use DVDFab to rip DVDs, which is actually the driving force between having a NAS, and because of this, I'll still have a Win7 VM, but my day-to-day stuff will be done exclusively in Linux. In any case, the desire to go "all Linux all the time" caused me to re-evaluate my NAS setup.


    FWIW, I'm in the process of migrating nine boxes from Win7 to Linux, including two Ubuntu desktops, two Lubuntu desktops, an OMV desktop, three Ubuntu laptops, a NUC running Kodi, and finally, two Raspberry Pi 3B+ running Raspian/Pi-hole. I also have another desktop that is currently running MediaPortal (the Kodi box will replace this if everything goes okay with OMV/Kodi).


    NAS Hardware


    I'm using a 18-inch U2-UFO cube case from Mountain Mods (https://www.mountainmods.com/product_info.php?products_id=79) that has room for up to 18 drives. The motherboard is a Gigabyte with an Intel 2020e CPU and 16GB of RAM, into which I added a SATA card and a USB 3.0 card. It will be booting from a 60GB SSD, and currently contains 3 2TB drives (soon to include a 3 or 4TB drive).


    I don't yet know if it's possible (I haven't googled it yet), but I'm intending to store the logs on a re-purposed 250GB analog laptop drive in an attempt to avoid loading an otherwise unnecessary add-on and to prolong the life of the SSD.


    The box is currently booting Lubuntu, and I'm in the process of converting the existing drives from NTFS to EXT4 (copying the files to an eternal 2tb drive, re-partitioning the NAS drive, and copying the files back to it - I have to do this three times, and it takes about three hours to copy in one direction). Once that's done, I'll install OMV, and tie my Kodi box to it to serve movies/music.