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Cannot mount block device : Error mounting CentOS share on OMV

I needed to have a scheduled job to copy files from my MythTV server to my Open Media Vault server, but when I tried to mount the Samba/SMB share I got the following: root@nas2:/mnt# mount -t cifs \\\\192.168.202.44\\public /mnt/192.168.202.44 -o domain=CANTABRIAN,user=backup,pass=mypassword mount: block device \\192.168.202.44\public is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: cannot mount block device \\192.168.202.44\public… read more…
CentOS 7 VM for WordPress and MythTV – Post install setup

In the post CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV I described how to create a base CentOS 7 VM. This post describes follows on from that post and describes the post installation tasks to make the VM a good solid base for me to run WordPress or MythTV. When setting up a Linux server… read more…
Network browsing broken with Windows 10 build 1809

I have a relatively new install of Windows 10 and it is currently running build 1809 and do you think I can get it to browse to a network share. If I do the standard thing of typing in a host name into file explorer as “\\nas2” it should bring me back all the available… read more…
Setting up a Windows shared drive

This post is about setting up a Windows share for OMV. This should be a straight forward exercise but there are a few gotchas that mean it doesn’t always work the first time. This post describes the process pretty much from the start because as with other things if you don’t do things correctly right… read more…