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Hello,

recently I recycled my old laptop and started out with OpenMediaVault. After some initial difficulties I figured out how things work. Just to mention: I'm not an IT guy but can solve and figure out things. I want to have access to one or another self hosted services. But I'm a bit lost which approach and tools to use without exposing and making my NAS vulnerable on the internet.

Do you know any beginner friendly guides especially for OMV? I also want to understand what happens if and what my next action causes/can cause. So I don't just want to dumb follow a tutorial and that's it.

Thank you for your help and please let me know if you need any more details.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You're totally right and it wasn't my plan. I actually deployed some services in a mix of docker compose and portainer. With separate UID and GID for each of them. And the idea is to really expose the 1 or 2 services for remote control.

Oh think I saw this guy's tutorial regarding docker an OMV. I will watch the whole series. Thank you for your help

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're pretty familiar already! I use OMV for my NAS and have several NFS shares for various services. It's a solid solution IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Tbh it took some time to get a feeling for the whole thing but now I can handle the thing pretty well. That's why I thought it's time for the next step. And I like it as well!