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.

  • LifeBandit666OPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Well I’ve had another go this morning and believe I’ve managed it. My problem seemed to be that I already had 5 devices in Mullvad through my tinkering, so I deleted one and made a new one (just as an fyi in case you hit the same issue).

    So I followed this guy on YouTube to set up an Openwrt router VM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mPbrunpjpk&t=897s

    When you are able to route traffic through the VM stop following the tutorial and use this link instead to set up the VPN https://mullvad.net/en/help/running-wireguard-router

    And apparently I’m now running the Openwrt router through Mullvad.

    I did all the SSH parts in Console and I put my public key into the website through the Mullvad link above and copied the IP addresses from the same page.

    So theoretically I just have to set vmbr1 as my bridge to containers and VMS that I want to run through my VPN and set up port forwarding for them in the OpenWRT interface and they’ll route through Mullvad

    Hope this helps.

    • SaintWacko@midwest.socialEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Nice! Glad to hear that works. I’ll have to give it another go. I had spent the whole day trying to get Mullvad (without WireGuard) working, but it kept failing to create the tun device, so by the time I got it working with WireGuard I didn’t really feel like trying to figure out the VLAN thing too lol.

      • LifeBandit666OPEnglish
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        9 months ago

        This is with Wireguard too, it’s just inside OpenWRT.

        I’ve put my Windows VM behind it and checked it’s working and it is, but now I can’t access Plex and SMB lol, more tinkering when I finish work I guess