There needs to me a detailed write up on permissions for configuration on the server side, and notes for Mac and PC. Do I have to delete every folder to delete the contents and then share it all over again? Not sure, but why should I have to go to that step.
WHY NOT? It is lots of guessing, with inadequate information online referencing older software, and that is cryptic, and falling back on the user, you, to try to guess what will work, hoping something will work! I don't see how to reset permissions which is the nightmare of this program. I just tried changing some permissions to open up everything for read/write and it would not accept that. Start with just two folders one for SMB and one for NFS. I can't deal with slow transfers, which is a common complaint, a server processes that won't start, and endless permission issues. I can deal with one-time slow formatting. I like puzzles but this is mostly taking many steps backwards. If I get NFS working, I'll have to do all of that ALL over again-they have to be different folders. I thought I was home free with the install. Imagine wanting to add one permission and having to step through all that every time for every permission. So why does it take so many steps to do all that? Now imagine having to create a 20 folders. THERE IS ZERO RISK MAKING AN EMPTY FOLDER! For other changes, don't ask for a confirmation, people can change it back if they want.
Two confirmations? To make a folder? WTF? JUST DO IT ON ONE CLICK. You can copy permissions from another folder, but it still a tedious process.
Plus the process includes a tedious and slow confirmation, click save then move your mouse way over there, wait for confirmation check mark, click check mark, and them move is way back the other way to finalize and click OK. Maybe the smart move is version 5.0 Next what if you have a complicated file structure? THERE IS NO WAY TO SET PERMISSIONS FOR ALL OF THEM AT ONCE using their software. I was expecting a quicker solution and now I'm thinking about other options. If you want to spend 30 hours trying to figure out WTF is happening and why it won't work, based on discussions for older versions of the software.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? NEARLY 24 hours to build a mirror? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO FAST FORMAT ON EMPTY DRIVES! I have the hardware, the software is subpar IMO. 17 hours to transfer my 275GB of music? Nearly 24 hours to format a 16TB mirror Raid? I can do this in my Mac in a couple of minutes. The whole point for having a NAS is fast file transfers. My limitation should be the hard drive throughput. Should I try that next? I'm trying to troubleshoot why it is so slow on a 10G fiber network with powerful machines and plentiful resources. I found one fellow wrote a script for permissions reset on a chron script. Older versions have some sort of permission reset. Hell I can't even delete files when I do transfer them-once again permission issues and error messages, file in use when it's not, and others. Everything has to be done through the web interface. I've finding file transfers very slow with Samba, and I've been unable to get NFS working-it is enabled in software, but command line query shows NFS won't even start on the server side. Got it up and working, then came the real challenges. Starting off the ISO would not load on my Ryzen machine without a special iso thumbdrive formatter.
Instead answers online are for older versions of the software. This OPENMEDIAVAULT (OMV) software is supposed to be easy. I am trying to get a pile of video files off an Apple Mac Pro, onto a Linux based NAS, and expected some issues.