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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] 3 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I've been working on the same thing over the past month, with some minor differences. I skipped portainer and am just running LXCs on Proxmox, and built it from the beginning as a *arr/Plex box, so it has 4x4TB internal drives in ZFS RAID6, with the OS on an SSD. I still need to try out the TrueNAS thing, but I'm running a Minecraft server on it, and I just spent the better part of a day figuring out how to run Mullvad on it and force all my torrent traffic to use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Also, look at Open Media Vault instead of TrueNAS, honestly so much easier

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