Posts by CaptainPedro

System Details HPxz8600 (2) xeon 4350 processors, MB 24G ram, OS drive 128G SSD, 3 Seagate 4T enterprise drives PCIe HDA controller to enable JBOD for HDs Using flashmemory to improve performance and SSD life. Attempting to implement Mergerfs and Snapraid to set up a NAS with drive redundancy. I originally successfully set this system up and got plex running in a docker container, I wanted to add Photoprism but the plugin did not work correctly and also caused some other problems. One of the moderators suggested that since I was able to navigate installing Plex using Compose and Docker that I should do the same for Photoprism. Since the first pass was mostly painless I decided to do a fresh install and start from scratch. However each time I've tried I end up with a error message when I try to create a shared folder on the Mergerfs pool that says "directory /srv/mergerfs/POOL01/NASshare not created - unknown error" I've talked to my friend Google and my Uncle Bob as well as a couple LLMs and tried a variety of cli fixes for Mergerfs having permissions issues with newer versions of OMV, manually creating the directory and fixing the permissions, checking the disk space (99% free) and inode availability (more than 50,000 left), Manually un-mounting and remounting the Mergerfs pool. Freely admitting that my Linux skills are pretty rusty I'm at the end of my rope. Are their documented workarounds for this problem? I even created a new boot drive from the latest ISO to and that had the same issue

Well I was hoping that the new plugin would be a bit less intense that using Compose but if I don't get a better response in this thread that's what I will do

Apologize in advance for the request for hand holding . I've been building a NAS based on OMV and beyond being part of my overall data security plan I needed to have a way to manage a very large music collection and a large photo collection. I opted for Plex and Photo Prism, did all the research and installed Plex using docker and compose works Great! Was about to go down the same path with Photo Prism bus saw a post about the new plugin. I installed the plugin but now I can't seem to figure out the correct method to setup the shares and users ti make everything work as advertised. Specifically the Photo Prism admin user and the import folder to insure that as photos are added that no duplicate created in the originals folder

I fixed it by trial and error thanks

actually I misspoke I did add user to _ssh group there still seems to be an issue with the <user:user> group not existing

I'm new to OMV but have wanted a NAS for some time. I have repurposed a HP ZX8600 dual xeon ws with 24g of ddr2 ram, 128g SSD (SATA) for the OS and 3 seagate constellation 4 Tb enterprise drives for storage I had to add a PCIe raid controller to use the SAS drives HP P420. I installed mergerFS and snap raid. On my first try the raid bios setup utility forced me to create a logical drive containing all 3 data drives, but then I had to use the hardware controller to manage the raid configuration. This made snapraid pointless, so after some research I rebuilt and set up 3 separate logical drive and was able to setup mergerFS and snap raid. Only downside is that SMART can't monitor the logical drives. More research and HP has a BIOS upgrade for the P420 controller that allow it to function as a RAID controller or a HDA controller that would allow me to setup the 3 data drives as JABOD array and I think then the SMART utility will be able monitor them correctly. All this to say that the only user that was created by the OMV install that can access the server with WinSCP or PuTTy is root. I've tried creating a user through OMV and the adding them to the ssh, sys and sudo groups and they can't access the server. It connects but access is denied. so I deleted those users and use the root login to connect using PuTTy and created the users through the command line modified them to be in ssh, sys, and sudo groups but they still can't log in. I'd really like a user that is not root to be able to use the command line in debian if I need to, but after several hours of troubleshooting I'm not any closer