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**PatK** · (This post was last modified: 2016-08-25, 21:24 by PatK.)

We all know the Raspberry Pi is a computer and you can do just about anything with it, but ran into this 'Cnet' article which lays it out with links for any additional software, and step-by-step instructions. Whatch out for the pop-ups though Smile

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/raspberry-pi-...-solution/

You might make something out of those older gen units.

JonSnow88 · 2016-08-25, 20:32

Going to use mine as a ftp and owncloud server.

**natethomas** · 2016-08-26, 03:00

I saw this the other day. It's a pretty good idea. I have a cheapie windows 10 box set up as the server at my sister's house, but no matter what I do, it keeps turning itself off. This would solve that, and I'm guessing OpenMediaVault is much less of a hassle when using SMB than Windows 10.

Canyaya · 2016-08-26, 03:48

How would you access the drives outside of your network?

Sent from my iPhone

nickr · 2016-08-26, 05:16

Same as with any setup.

**natethomas** · 2016-09-02, 10:04

So after spending a few hours at it, I think OMV might be a burning pile of garbage. You have to go through like 5 steps to share a folder over SMB, and if that folder is on a USB drive, you have to manually remount it every time you restart the computer. I'm not sure how much I need to emphasize that that is incredibly user unfriendly.

Another real delight is that the thing simply could not connect to a time server to save its life. I think it might have correctly connected once, after about 7 reboots.

Also, changing a setting resulted in an error about 75% of the time. And after one error happened, you probably got errors with everything after that, meaning you needed to reboot. Which of course meant I needed to manually remount the damned usb drive again.

I tried installing Sabnzbd. It doesn't exist. The guides all act like it exists. They are wrong. No matter what I tried with OMV-extras.org and the Plugins, Sabnzbd was simply not an option for installing. There was a transmission plugin, but that doesn't really help me. All that sonarr/sickbeard/sickrage nonsense? Also, totally not there. Sometimes in the forums people would talk about these addons like they were in available to install. They'd do that classic thing "Nevermind, I figured it out," without saying how they figured it out.

It was delightful. Reminded me a lot of trying to figure out how to do something in Linux back when I tried using Linux as my daily driver.

So... I'm going to give it a day or two. Maybe there's something wrong with the omv-extras server or something. I tried checking to see if there were any updates from the version I was using: 2.2.5, for the curious. I don't actually know if there are, because every time I checked, I'd get another error.

I genuinely have no idea why people like this software.

**natethomas** · 2016-09-02, 17:34

I'm worried I'm giving too much of a bad wrap to the software, so here is a positive. Once it's on, I can shut down my PC and still have the server running. That's pretty nice. It'd be better if sab could also be running, but I guess that's a problem for another day.

**DarrenHill** · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-02, 18:08 by DarrenHill.)

Pi's are great for all sorts of little home servers. Some more examples:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Ultimate...me-Server/
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/t...n-debian-8
https://pi-hole.net/
http://www.pimusicbox.com/

I have the second one running at home as my OpenVPN and WINS server on a Pi2 (just updated from a Pi1, a new Pi3 having replaced the Pi2 as my Kodi box and the Pi1 is now a PiMusicBox radio driving some old powered PC speakers).

I did used to have the ad-blocking DNS server too (number 3 in the list) but the missus complained that it messed with Facebook too much.

poplap · 2016-09-02, 22:13

(2016-09-02, 10:04)natethomas Wrote: So after spending a few hours at it, I think OMV might be a burning pile of garbage. You have to go through like 5 steps to share a folder over SMB, and if that folder is on a USB drive, you have to manually remount it every time you restart the computer. I'm not sure how much I need to emphasize that that is incredibly user unfriendly.

Another real delight is that the thing simply could not connect to a time server to save its life. I think it might have correctly connected once, after about 7 reboots.

Also, changing a setting resulted in an error about 75% of the time. And after one error happened, you probably got errors with everything after that, meaning you needed to reboot. Which of course meant I needed to manually remount the damned usb drive again.

I tried installing Sabnzbd. It doesn't exist. The guides all act like it exists. They are wrong. No matter what I tried with OMV-extras.org and the Plugins, Sabnzbd was simply not an option for installing. There was a transmission plugin, but that doesn't really help me. All that sonarr/sickbeard/sickrage nonsense? Also, totally not there. Sometimes in the forums people would talk about these addons like they were in available to install. They'd do that classic thing "Nevermind, I figured it out," without saying how they figured it out.

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Thats unfortunate, I ran a OMV server on a Raspberry pi 1 with a USB HDD for a year without any problem (that was not my own fault). I wonder what happened, I had no problem with my USB drive auto-mounting and I could connect easily (if slowly) even transferred several 100GBs. Almost never had to reboot it, it even booted alright after a few power outages. As to Sabnzbd, I didn't try installing it myself but it might be that they do not have the ARM version available, the raspberry pi has a smaller collection of addons available. Even had it running syncthing (though I hated the OMV interface and just used the syncthing one).

nickr · 2016-09-03, 08:24

@natethomas, you're probably better to install raspbian or archlinux and admin over commandline.

You'll also be able to install any other software you like without having to rely on OMV having a package.

~~Ned Scott~~ · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-03, 09:29 by Ned Scott.)

@natethomas

It's been a long time since I originally installed OMV, but it was a lot easier than what you are describing. My drives automatically mount and get shared, and they're USB drives. What guide were you using?

@nickr

OMV is just Debian with a web UI. I've installed a bunch of stuff that doesn't have an OMV plug-in. Such as ZNC, OpenVPN, some node.js home bridge thing for my Hue Lights so the iPhone will do the Siri thing with them (computer, lights!).

**natethomas** · 2016-09-04, 06:35

I was actually using the guide linked by OP.

MrCrispy · 2016-09-05, 03:32

I also want to try out Pi - quick qn, how much can you run simultaneously? e.g. I want to run pihole for ad blocking, PiMusicbox, and something for downloading and also reverse proxy/firewall to all other services on my home pc. Can it handle multiple tasks?

**DarrenHill** · 2016-09-05, 08:54

Certainly PiHole and a firewall will happily run together. PiMusicBox is supplied as an image, so would probably have to be what went on first but they should co-exist OK.

I used to run PiHole, the OpenVPN server and the WINS server on a Pi1 and it was fine.

MidnightWatcher · (This post was last modified: 2016-09-06, 07:07 by MidnightWatcher.)

I'd recommend trying out DietPi and setting up an FTP server with ProFTPD. Lower CPU overhead and slightly faster than Samba.

Download DietPi here.

Set up ProFTPD here.

Per DietPi:

Why choose ProFTP over Samba?

- ProFTP outperforms Samba in all aspects of performance.
- ProFTP can max out the RPi 100mbit connection with minimal cpu usage.
- Samba server on a RPi v1 will hit 100% cpu usage at 40mbit transfer rate.

http://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15#p19