THANK YOU!. I have followed loads of walkthroughs, including all those you highlighted and more and none of them worked. Multiple times putting the pi into emergency mode loop and had to reimage, but this worked. Thanks.
Great explanation. Recommend that you either zoom in on your command line display so what you type is more legible for reproduce the entered command lines in the comments.
Cool ShotokuTech, quick question, for the, shared you are using CIFS or SAMBA protocol correct? So, you already have the configuration set on the RBpi OMV settings to allow your user to connect to the samba share? in my case I have OMV but I connect to it using NFS as I connect from Linux or MAC to Linux no windows clients at the moment, so I didn't see the need for CIFS/SMB. Thank you for showing the additional step of configuring the "/etc/fstab" stanza to make the share available after boot.
Yes, in my OMV, I use SAMBA, shares, and users are all set up already. I have a OMV playlist that is pretty popular that details my setup. NFS, that is interesting to me. I don't have must experience with it I guess. Thanks!
CIFS/SAMBA is probably needed if you are providing network shares to Windows client PCs - that is a simple answer that I can give you. Otherwise you can provide network shares using NFS or SSHFS (encrypted) and a Linux client computer will have no issue mounting them - but within Windows, you would need the appropriate client software. I have not used Windows since Windows 7 support ended so I don't know if such connectivity is built into Windows 8 or beyond, it was not there in Windows 7.
That's a great question! LOL. I usually try to ask that question before I do something. But I didn't this time! So here it is: sudo umount /media/General forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=10109
