Posts by StanleyAccrington

I accept that OMV is a NAS and must obviously use shared folders, otherwise it wouldn't work. My comments were to do with structuring the linux filesystem. OMV contains a tool to mount a filesystem but no tool to create the directory structure inside it or even to view it.

It does offer an ssh service (does ssh require shares?) so that you can use bash, or you can use a share to a different system and use the directory tools from that.

I not trying to be critical. I'm just learning. Presumably you could create a share from / so that the whole of the OMV filesystem was shared. Would that be the best approach?

Ah, yes. So is OMV designed to be a Windows GUI into Linux to avoid using cli.

I am not criticising since I like OMV but I think it is much better than that, and shouldn't rely on Windows.

Thank you. Who is the user who creates folders if I use explorer - root? Is it better to use Windows to create folders rather than going directly to bash.

Also I don't particularly want to create shares for my filesystem.

Having mounted the filesystem using Webui, is logging on to ssh and using mkdir the only way I can create a directory structure?

I have installed piwigo in a docker container using portainer. I had no problem with mariadb but I am confused by the volume/bind mount to use in piwigo.

Before creating the piwigo container, I created a volume called piwigo_data. Then, when creating the piwigo container when I had to specify volumes, I selected volume (not bind) and inserted /config and piwigo_data. I then created the container. This worked but I noticed a bind mount (called a volume) was listed in the volumes of portainer. I installed piwigo and added a few photos. I discovered they had been put in /config/www/gallery/upload/2020/10/01/ (today's date)

I deleted the piwigo container and the volume and bind mount and created a new volume called piwigo_photos. I then created the piwigo container again but this time selected an additional volume entry /pictures and piwigo_photos. When I created the container I had both the volumes listed in portainer.

My confusion is why do I need the extra volume or bind mount if it has nothing in it? Secondly, why does portainer call a bind mount a volume?

Running Portainer on OMV raspberry pi. My filesystem was mounted using OMV with mount point /srv/dev-disk-by-label-xxxx/

Created piwigo container with bind mount for the photos in the /sharedfolders directory.

When I tried to create a share so that I could view the contents of the sharedfolders from Windows, I was unable to do so because creating the shared folder only allows a device name which is the mount point of my filesystem i.e. I can't choose the sharedfolders directory.

Is the solution to recreate the container with the bind mount within my filestore. Alternatively, should I create a docker volume before creating the container which would be located in /var/lib/docker/volumes/

However I still wouldn't be able to create a share for the volume.

Thank you. That's done the trick.

When I click on App Templates and Select a category, no categories to select and Search says No templates available. Similarly with Custom Templates. Returning to App Templates displays message Failure. Unable to retrieve templates.

I am running on raspberry pi and have upgraded to Portainer 2.

I have a raspberryPI 4, OMV 5 with MiniDLNA server. I also have a Windows10 PC running a DLNA server. The DLNA clients I use are my smart TV using a wired ethernet connection and Firestick using a wi-fi connection. All on the same network.

I have set the port on the OMV to 8200 and then to 8201, In each case, I can see both the DLNA servers on the Firestick clients, but only the OMV server on the TV client.

How does a DLNA client know to which servers it should connect? Also, does my TV client abandon trying to find another server once it has found one? Do the wired and wi-fi ethernet connections make any difference?

If I switch off 'enabled' on the OMV, the clients on Firestick see the Windows media files but the TV client sees nothing.

I am confused.

Yes, I have read it and have followed the instructions.

Still doesn't work. mail command doesn't work either.

I have switched on and off encryption, tried different ports. Nothing. Journals seem to indicate working but nothing received at my hotmail account.

Tried with gmail account and gmail smtp and failed in the same way

Latest journal

Done the encryption. Mail is from me to me. Still bounced.

postfix/qmgr

postfix/cleanup

postfix/cleanup

postfix/bounce non delivery notification

postfix/bounce non delivery notification

I have added authentication password but still get message bounced by smtp server. I don't know how to add SSL/TLS encryption to test message.

I setup SMTP server as smtp.outlook.com, SMTP port 587 and myself name_name@hotmail.com as sender email and recipient email, No authentication.

Tried SMTP port 25, SMTP server smtp-mail.outlook.com. All failed

System log 'Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail'

Would welcome help.

Thank you. I undestand. I guess the OMV internal database is etc/openmediavault/config.xml

I have a memory stick with the filesystem label 'stick' in a USB port of my raspberrypy 4.

At boot it doesn't get mounted because it doesn't have an entry in etc/fstab

If I mount it using the OMV gui it has a mount point of srv/dev-disk-by-label/stick and device name dev/disk/by-label/stick

If I mount it using PUTTY mount –t exfat /dev/sdb1 /media/memorystick it has a mount point of /media /memorystick but a device name dev/disk/by-label/stick

The header of the Filesystem table in the gui is missaligned and the device name is incorrect.

Does this mean that with OMV you can only use directory srv for mount points and you have to use persistent block device naming (by-label, or by-uid if no label is present)?

I am following the Dockstarter tutorial by Technodadlife and reached the point where he said nano needs to remove 'noexec' from mntent.

I followed the instructions and removed it but when i then tried to access omv via a browser got

Fatal error 76: Opening and ending tag mismatch: ntent line 356 and mntent (line=365, column=16)

I returned to mntent and reintroduced noexec into it's previous place but still got the same error.

I noticed that the Teechnodadlife video showed mntent in yellow followed by mntent in white. When I did it there was mntent in yellow followed by ntent in white.

You can tell I don't know what I'm doing but need to recover OMV.

I have installed miniDNLA plugin onto OMV and using File Explorer on Windows 10 selected a number of photos and copied them across from Windows to the raspberrypi 4.

Before copying I rotated any photos to portrait which were displayed as landscape so that they had the correct orientation.

If I now connect in to raspberrypi from my Windows pc and view those photos they have retained the rotation but if I view them on the Philips television they have reverted to their original orientation and have to be rotated again.

Does anyone know why this is.

I configured the new port 8201 and it worked. I can now view photos from both the Philips television itself or using Firestick on the TV.

Thank you raulfg3.