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    [SOLVED] Copying files from host machine to LXC

    Hi everyone, Thanks in advance for reading. I had about 4 TB of videos I wanted on a samba server. The samba server is an Ubuntu 22.04 LXC and is working just fine. All of the videos were on my laptop so I moved them to an external HDD, plugged it in to the server, mounted it on the pve host...
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    Unable to open chunck store / Permission denied

    Guten Tag Proxmox Community, ich möchte gerne meine VM's entsprechend mit dem PBS sichern, den datastorage aber auf einer NAS haben. Dazu habe ich folgendes bereitsausgeführt: 1. sudo apt install cifs-utils 2. credentials in eine file geschrieben (/root/.smbcredentials) 3. Mount-Directory...
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    It is not possible to add a VirtIO RNG device under a non-root user

    As per documentation: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_virtio_rng - By adding via API there is an error: 500 only root can set 'rng0' config - In GUI 'VirtIO RNG' section is inactive. Proxmox VE 8.2.2 Is this expected and standard behavior? Is it possible to do this action...
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    A Question - VM.Backup Role Permission Issue

    Hello, I'm getting my first proxmox system online (Broadcom/VMware victim). I'm quite impressed thus far with the ease of pulling in VMs from VMware systems and the setup/performance compared to VMware. Anyways, I had a quick question: I created a very basic role that includes: VM.Audit...
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    Mount Point between multiple LXCs

    I have an external drive mounted on /mnt/hdd directly into Proxmox host. I shared /mnt/hdd/data to /data for four LXCs different, with different users. One LXC is qBitTorrent and another is Jellyfin, for example. How to make possible Jellyfin user see and write the saved file from qbittorrent?
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    Permissions for Backup Management

    Hey, we have a proxmox cluster with globally (in the datacenter section) configured backups. In some cases users from a group that has access to a pool as PVEVMAdmin needs to reboot VMs during a backup. This is not possible during a backup run. Currently they need to ask a global admin with...
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    Bind Mount Permissions in Unprivledged Container

    Going around in circles trying to configure a NFS bind mount for my Nextcloud container. I've added a NFS share to my host via the Proxmox GUI and from the host I can access the folder and the contents fine. I've been following numerous guides on this forum and this one too...
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    HTOP in Deb12 LXC showing differing Values

    Hello everyone, Im currently facing a possible issue with Permissions in my Debian 12 Containers. One of my many Deb 12 Containers seems to have more "Permissions" than the others, at least according to HTOP: CT-Normal: CT-Abnormal: The Containers both have the following Settings, are...
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    Trying to sort out permissions on media server

    Hi apologies if this has been asked already, I have setup proxmox on a mini PC I have created 4 containers 1 Plex 2 Qbittorrent 3 Sonarr, Radar 4 File Server I have a 512Gb M.2 Drive all containers and Proxmox is installed on that, I have a second 1TB SSD, I have setup the file server and...
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    Single File Restore - File Permissions

    Hello, I'm not able to figure out, how to see the file permissions of files within a vm backup(from a PVE-Node). Filesystems inside vms are formatted as ext4. When I need to restore a single file, which is very comfortable with the GUI, I also need to know the file permissions of the restored...
  11. K

    what are the possible ways to allocate specific resources to the users?

    Hello! I'm looking for guidance on how to efficiently manage and allocate resources for different users within our Proxmox environment. What are the possible solutions within Proxmox to allocate specific storage, CPU, and RAM resources to individual users, with the goal of limiting their...
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    PLEX Deluge Storage permissions

    Dear Promox Forum I have had a Promox server for over a year now, it was running on an old laptop as a media server. I have moved to proxmox from a Raspberry and Docker. So i am not afraid of terminal but honestly sometimes just copy pasting commands without deeper knowledge about them, The...
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    Permissions for Changing Tapes Location

    I am trying to figure out what permissions I need to give to my operator (my son :-) ) to allow him to change the tape location. (He unloads the tapes and sets the location when no onsite. I have tried Admin under /tape still says permission check failed. Running 2.4-1
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    Propagation of pool permissions to member VMs?

    Hi, I'm using the feature of granting permissions for groups on VM pools for the first time. There's one thing I don't completely understand: should pool permissions be propagated to member VMs ("propagated" in the sense of: being visible in VMs permissions)? I'm very sure that in the case of...
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    Datastore Import Issue

    Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me, however i've spent the last 3 hours trawling though the forums but nothing has worked; Essentially, I reinstalled my PVE cluster earlier this evening so I could deploy PVE8.0. Install complete, fine tuning on the VE side complete so I go to bring...
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    Backup access for users results in Permission check failed (/storage/null, Datastore.Audit(Datastore.AllocateSpace) (403)

    Hi, Despite the User having Datastore.Audit and Datastore.AllocateSpace rights (on the VM and the Pool via the appropriate PVE roles) , we have the problem that we are not able to allow users to do a backup. The backup tab is present but the user gets Backup access for users results in...
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    Role Permissions

    What are all the permissions I need to grant a role if I want it to be able to see a vms console, see the summary, send commands in the console, and using a file editor like winscp have access to the vm?
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    Role Permissions

    What are all the permissions i need to grant a role if I want it to be able to see a vms console, see the summary, send commands in the console, and using a file editor like winscp have access to the vm
  19. Jan Wedershoven

    Dedicated permission to manage HA resources

    Hello everyone, we are running a couple of PVE-Clusters where non Admin Users can manage/create their own VMs. I recently rolled out a script that checks each VM for an HA group and sets the default group accordingly. In order to allow users to add VMs to a specific HA-Group, I need to assign...
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    Proxmox and the Ressource-Pool Permissions.

    Hello everyone! my question is about the permissions within a proxmox cluster. We have 8 nodes in our cluster and want to make some of them available for other users via the resource pools. So I created users, added these users to a group and allowed this group to access the pool. Within the...

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