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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] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You are lucky in a way that OMV has a fantastic documentation suite. it is not too long, and I recommend reading it cover to cover, as well as the omv-plugins and omv-extras documentation, skipping over anything that's not interesting, but seeing that it's there for future reference.

OMV is interesting to me because it gives you a gui that lets you do many difficult or advanced things fairly quickly, but it is not always clear what all the options do, and things don't always work as expected. But the documentation will lead you well.

My advice is start slow, stick to the garden path (don't try anything custom or unusual), and frequently browse the forums.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

It is exactly what I'm doing. First I just created an SMB folder on the home network. Next paperless-ngx. After that Immich. But only on the local network. Now I want to go a step further. And I always get back to the documentation if I need something new. Regarding the garden path: exactly the reason why I explicitly asked for OMV. Thank you for your contribution. Much appreciated!