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Noob having fun with Self-Hosting story (feddit.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm a fellow noob, maybe that's why I found the bath side of it more amusing. I can relate to the pervasive obsession and unexpected eureka moments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I get a little obsessive about my new hobbies to the point where a whole day of tinkering goes by and I barely notice.

I had an 11hr messing about session a couple weeks ago then we had to go out for a family meal because of some important occasion (my 40th birthday) and I got to the meal with a massive headache from staring at a screen all day, only to find it was a surprise party.

My Wife could not understand how on earth I hadn't worked out it was a surprise party beforehand, but my head was in setting Proxmox up and getting things working.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

There's a quote from 1908's Wind in the Willows: Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Fill in your own hobby, and it reads just as well.

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