OpenMediaVault and NextCloud - NAS and private cloud storage

In this lesson, we'll take our first look at OpenMediaVault and learn how to install it on a computer system and this should be the first step for you as well, because it is the foundation of our whole course

In this lesson, we will meet our new OpenMediaVault NAS distro, login in the system the first time, get a quick walkthrough around and configure system settings and also go ahead and configure the time settings

In this lesson, we are going to learn how to configure network parameters, how to create and identify adapters, how to create VLANs and finally we are going to work with the firewall because we take system security very seriously, right?

In this lesson, we are going to learn how to configure notifications on our OpenMediaVault system, in order to get messages from the system in case there is an error or a hardware failure that we need to know about, then learn how to configure power management settings so that we can save power but have an optimally functioning system and finally we'll talk a bit about monitoring the system

In this lesson, we are going to learn how to create our own self-signed certificates, import an existing certificate from a 3rd party certification authority, learn how to schedule jobs in order to be able to have jobs running at a later time and finally we'll see how to perform updates on our system in order to keep it safe

In this lesson, we are going to learn how to work with plugins on the OpenMediaVault system, how to then add the OMV extras to the system and then how to see and work with the plugins available in the extras package

In this lesson, we are going to talk about the storage management functions of the OpenMediaVault system, from creating RAID arrays, to wiping disks and finally to creating and working with file systems

In this lesson, we are going to talk about how people will be accessing your NAS and how you can manage the rights they have on the data. We'll also talk about users and groups and how to grant rights to your users in OpenMediaVault

In this lesson, we are going to talk about how to configure and work with the antivirus plugin that you can enable on your OpenMediaVault system. You'll be able to perform on-demand virus scans and also instruct the system to automatically perform antivirus scans periodically

In this lesson, we are going to enable, configure and work with the FTP server on the OpenMediaVault system. It will allow you to share files through the FTP protocol and we will use an FTP client to connect and test our work

In this lesson, we'll be talking about how to present your files to other computers on the network with the help of the NFS server that you can enable on your OpenMediaVault system. You'll also understand how to check that your NFS shares are done correctly and what the "exports" are on your system

In this lesson, we'll be talking about how you can securely connect to your OpenMediaVault system with the help of the SSH server. You'll also learn how to use certificates on your SSH server, with the certificates being either self-signed or from a 3rd party. We'll also test our SSH connection with the help of the Putty, with Putty being an executable file utility and not clay or anything like that!

In this lesson, we'll be talking about the SMB server that you can enable on the OpenMediaVault system. The complete Linux is the SAMBA server and it's specially built for sharing files in computer networks. We'll configure the shares, allow access to them and finally we're going to test everything to see if it works

In this lesson, we'll learn how to perform backups of our OpenMediaVault system. We'll need a USB storage device in order to get things working, with the nice thing being that after we configure the backup jobs, the system will perform them automatically when you plug in your USB drive

In this lesson, we'll learn how you can leverage the Virtualbox plugin to run virtual machines on your OpenMediaVault system. You'll learn what you need to have in order to keep things in good working order and you'll also learn how to control and configure your virtual machines

In this lesson, we'll enable and configure two very important parts in our course, namely the MySQL and NGINX servers. They will enable you to create a database and hold and present web pages on your OpenMediaVault system. You'll learn the important parameters you need to configure and how you need to perform the operations in order for things to run smoothly

In this lesson, you'll learn how to monitor the performance of your OpenMediaVault system, check for issues and get information to fix any problems from the logs that the system offers

In this lesson, you'll learn how to get the necessary files that we need to perform the NextCloud install, prepare the OpenMediaVault system by configuring some important parameters and then perform the installation of NextCloud on top of the OpenMediaVault system 

In this lesson, we are going to be fixing the issues that arise after you install NextCloud on top of OpenMediaVault. These issues are pretty easy to deal with for the most part and you'll learn what the problems that you can encounter are

In this lesson, you'll learn what are the configurations that you can perform on your NextCloud server and how to perform them. You'll learn about password rules, theme options, cron jobs, file sharing, tags, workflows and so on

In this lesson, you'll learn how to configure users and groups on your NextCloud server and bare in mind that these users and groups are not the same as the one on your OpenMediaVault system

In this lesson, we'll explore the clients that NextCloud offers, learn how to use the features in the web client, add files, share files with other users and also create links for them, organize files, work with tags and so on. We'll then get to grips with the desktop client, which offers synchronization for your files. Mobile clients are also available and we'll talk a bit about them

In this lesson I congratulate you on the successful completion of the course and I'll also offer you some helpful links that you can use to further learn and get more information