Tag: NAS

  • Running Calibre on a Virtual Machine with a Network Library

    This article started out as just a guide on running Calibre with a network library, a difficult task at the best of times, it has since had to morph into a guide on running Calibre Web in the same way since that too is non-trivial. Calibre Calibre is certainly a powerful application, of that there…

  • Mounting a Samba Share Under Debian

    In this article we’ll permanently mount a Samba share on a Debian based system, this process will be similar for other Linux distributions too. It is assumed that you have a share somewhere else already configured and ready to go. Start by installing the required utilities, this will install a few other utilities as well.…

  • Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 2

    The setup described in this article will work if you have a followed the first article in this series however it is not an optimal setup. Once you’ve read the next article in this series you’ll understand the weaknesses in the setup described here and how to fix them. This article also covers a couple…

  • Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 1

    The first thing many people do with their home server is set up file sharing. If you’re running an OS such as TrueNAS this is really simple, but I’m running Proxmox so that I can also easily run virtual machines and this has one big downside: Proxmox is not really set up to act as…

  • Installing OpenMediaVault (OMV) on a Raspberry Pi

    OpenMediaVault (OMV) is an open source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. It ships as a distribution but you can also install just the packages if you have a suitable base system (Debian essentially) which is what we’ll be doing here. OMV has a web based interface that can be used to configure almost all aspects…