I’m a noob to all this, and love this server. I’ve recently set up Proxmox and Portainer, got Home Assistant transferred onto my new computer and set up an Arr stack on Windows VM.

I kept adding storage to that stack until it was talking half my internal storage so I bought a usb3 cable and hooked up an old 1tb HDD I had lying around.

I decided I wanted NAS storage with the HDD. I had already set up OMV but it was being a bit funny. Whenever I logged in to it I had no options, so I couldn’t add the HDD to it.

So I did some looking around and found TrueNAS. Installed it and started fiddling. Jesus it’s hard work to just add an SMB share from it!

After literally hours of tinkering I still was no closer so I gave up and went for a bath.

In the bath it occurred to me that maybe I was logging in to OMV wrong. I fired up the browser on my phone in the bath and instead of logging in with my name, I tried “admin” and lo and behold there is all the options I couldn’t see before.

5 minutes later I had half a tb in an SMB share, and then it was a simple case of making network shared folders on all my windows machines.

Thought you guys may be amused by the noob error of logging in as Admin.

  • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I probably can get the container way working now I’ve had some time with it. The problem is routing it through Mullvad. Prowlarr deffo needs to go through it, otherwise it can’t see the indexers (I’ve been using Prowlarr without a VPN for a while and it’s much better with it). Debrid doesn’t need a VPN I just prefer it to be there

    I watched a YouTube tutorial to get an OpenWRT container set up to route traffic through ,and managed to get it working. I struggled however to set the VPN up through it, I feel like I was in spitting distance!

    The bonus of using that method was that I could have multiple containers use the OpenWRT container, meaning they would all share the same IP address and just have different ports, so all my Self Hosted containers would be in the same place on my network.

    I’ll keep plugging away and give pfsense a look. Now that I have OMV running I can kill my Windows server without losing the media