Posts by bigalxyz

    I've just built a new PC and installed Windows 11 on it.

    I have a home media server which I built using a Raspberry Pi 4 and the openmediavault package.

    My previous PC (running Windows 10) could connect to my media server no problem - it's only 2 or 3 days since I was doing this, and it worked fine. I had shared folders on the server mapped to drive letters in Windows File Explorer - the usual kind of thing.

    The server itself seems to be behaving completely normally - I can access it from my other devices (iPad, Apple TV, etc.) with no problems, and on my new PC I can see the OMV dashboard on my web browser - all working fine.

    Pinging the server from my new PC works fine, so the connection between the two is intact. I can SSH into the server using Powershell on my new PC, and that's fine too.

    But in Windows File Explorer I can't access the server. It shows up as an item under the "Network" tab, but when I click on it I see: "Windows cannot access \\<server name> - check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose"...and at the bottom "Error code: 0x80070035 - the network path was not found".

    Clicking the "diagnose" button doesn't help - the Windows thingy doesn't find any problems.

    Does anyone know how I can fix this please? I tried to follow some guidance from ChatGPT but it just went round and round in circles and was unsuccessful.

    Thank you.

    I've had a Pi 3B+ for a few years, running OMV and with a 2TB external SSD plugged in (SATA to USB cable). Worked fine.


    I've almost finished setting up a new Pi 4, again with OMV. Last time I did this, the external drive was blank. Now it's got a lot of stuff on there that I don't want to lose.


    OMV has mounted the drive ok and the OMV dashboard shows it as 37% full, so I guess the old files are all still present. I created a shared directory called "Share" using the SMB/CIFS button, but AFAIK this is a brand new shared folder which bears no relation to the existing files on the drive.


    I can't work out how to make them show up - for example, in Windows File Explorer I've been able to map the NAS to a Z: drive but while I can see the "Share" shared folder fine, it's empty, and the remaining folders and files on the drive aren't visible, presumably because I haven't shared them (using OMV) - because I don't know how to!


    Can someone help please? I suspect the solution is very simple but I don't know what it is.


    Thank you.

    Your issue won't be the USB stick speed, it's the USB port.

    AFAIK, RPi 3 only has USB 2.0 ports:


    And the power output is quite low for a HDD.

    Real surprised as how you had the drive running OK all this time, unless it had it's own power supply.

    Ah yes, external HDD has its own power supply so that was fine

    Running a Raspberry Pi 3 as a home media server (using openmediavault). I set it all up about 2 years ago and until this morning it has worked very well. All connected up via ethernet to my home network.


    The Pi is currently connected via USB (USB 2?) to an old Seagate 2TB HDD, which is where I put all the files I want to store - but I think the HDD might be dying. This morning it's been making some strange noises (never a good sign), struggling to mount itself, I can't read from it properly accessing it on my PC, I'm seeing strange error messages in the omv web interface, etc. Is there anything I should be doing to check the drive's status and to try to fix it, or do I just throw in the towel and junk it?


    Assuming it's dying/dead, I'll need a replacement - and I'm hoping to get a 1-2TB SSD instead. High speed isn't crucial, but I'd like something with low power consumption since it's running 24/7 (and electricity is quite expensive here in the UK). Do external SSDs need their own power supply these days, or can a Pi 3 supply enough power via the USB cable? (I'll do whatever is most power efficient)


    Do I need to buy an external USB drive, or can I buy an internal 2.5" SATA drive and use a SATA to USB cradle/cable instead? Or doesn't it really matter?


    Or might I consider buying an NVME drive (and a USB cradle/cable)? I don't suppose I'll get to see its full speed potential in this setting, but that's not important, and I might redeploy it in future inside the new desktop PC that I'm quite likely to buy in the next 12 months.


    (I'm assuming a USB stick drive wouldn't cut the mustard because it would be waaaaay slower)


    Would be grateful for any recommendations/guidance.


    Thank you.