Then hover over “Columns” and check the box that says “Absolute Path” as we’ll need that later. Hover over any of the header titles (Name, Device, Relative Path, etc) and click the dropdown arrow. Make sure the permissions for each of the folders is set to “Everyone: read/write”.

You can adjust your media folder names to fit your needs, but these are the defaults. The “Config” folder is the only required folder. You’ll need to go your OpenMediaVault user interface and click “Shared Folders” Then look for your hard drives (sda1 or sdb1) and make sure there is no “noexec” in any of the lines associated with your hard drives. Once the system has rebooted, you can log in to the server via Putty again using root and type in: It will look like nothing happened and that’s fine. That will bring you back to the main screen of your Putty program. Then press CTRL+X and then press Y to confirm. Use your arrow keys to press down until you get to the next section and look for the “” line and remove the “noexec” option from that line. You should be brought to a section that is a different color because it is commented out. Now open an SSH program like Putty and login to your server using root. Once that has completed, click the “Portainer” dropdown and click “Install”. Then click the dropdown that says “Docker” and click “Install”. Click the new “OMV-Extras” link in the left sidebar. Once the system has rebooted, you can log back in. Once that is complete, search for “extras” in the search field at the top of the page.Ĭheck the box next to “openmediavault-omvextrasorg 5.2.1” and click the “Install” button at the top of the page. Go back to your OpenMediaVault installation and click on “Plugins” and then click the “Upload” button on that page. Click the file that ends in “.deb” to download the file. On this page, you should see a couple of options.

Then click the “Files” tab at the top of the page. Then look for the link called “openmediavault-omvextrasorg” and click it. Next, head over to and click on the link for OMV version 5. Getting Startedįirst thing, make sure you have your system up to date with all the latest updates. If you haven’t, go check out my other tutorials on how to do that and come back to this tutorial. We’re going into this with the understanding that you’ve already setup OpenMediaVault 5 on a device.

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