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.
In the immortal words of Jake the Dog:
We are or were all noobs once. Going away from the keyboard is often an undervalued step in the solution-finding process. Kudos!
This is such an important message, I keep this on my phone:
Indeed, I’ve sucked at guitar and rubiks cubes in the last 5 years and now I’m good at both of them!
Our man is hard flexing on us mortals right now.
Agreed! I had a math professor once say that epiphanies usually happen in one of the three B’s: Bed, Bathroom, and Bus. There really is something magical about stepping away to let your brain chew on a problem.