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    Samba Storage becomes unavailable

    Hi there! I recently added a Hetzner Storage Box as new SMB/CIFS Storage to my pve environment. Everything worked out fine so far, however after a few days the storage becomes unavailable on the pve host. Manually disabling & re-enabling the storage does not fix the issue, only a full reboot...
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    ZFS snapshot on lxc

    Is it possible to take zfs snapshot on an unprivileged LXC container? I created a samba service in an LXC container as it's more lightweight and even if the VM cannot boot i can simply copy the file from the bind mount from the PVE host without the hassle of mounting virtual disks, etc. (minor...
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    How to refresh `Storage is not online`

    1. I have a storage attached in Proxmox over SMB 2. I forcefully terminated all SMB connections to rotate the storage 3. After restarting the storage's SMB, Proxmox reported `Storage is not online` 4. My backup job which requires this attached storage is unable to start because it is not online...
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    [SOLVED] Windows 10 can see, not access samba share hosted from other sources

    I've googled into this issue for many hours and are pulling my hair out of frustration. I'm running proxmox VE 8, I've installed a Windows 10 VM (called PVE-WIN) following guides for setting up windows vm on Proxmox, and it all went smooth. I've confirmed that file/share settings in regedit...
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    Exposing LXC mountpoint to host

    Hi, I'm really not sure how to title this. Not even sure how on-topic this is but I really need help. So I've created an LXC container using turnkey miedaserver template and am using it as a file server as well. All shares are actually mounted from the host as I want the host to have full...
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    [SOLVED] Strange samba-performance with 7.4 VE

    I'm running 7.4 VE in Intel NUC 13 Pro i7 with 2.5G network. I have a TrueNAS VM with VirtIO NIC and use this as file-server with samba. Since I got some strange results I installed samba also on host itself to do some test's and results are surprising. Network is basic home-network, 10G main...
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    Mount SMB Share with write Permission in Proxmox Container

    So, I have a network storage (SMB) containing Plex media files. I followed this tutorial to mount that storage to my container (unprivileged). I can access the files but don't have permission to write anything to that directory. How can I make the directory writable?
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    storage best practices

    hi I have a msi z690 unify with 64 gigs of ram 2 2.5 gig intel Nic wifi 6e intel nvme card intel 12900k Nvidia 8600gts 2 nvme 500 gig 4 sata 2tb spinning drives Asus sata bluray drive. also have a 250 gig wd black drive enterprise use to be my windows boot drive what is best way to setup my...
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    Backup auf NAS was nur 4h pro Tag läuft

    Hallo zusammen, ich möchte alle meine VMs und LXC container regelemäsig sichern. Dafür habe ich ein Backup angelegt was um 21:00 starten soll. Die Sicherung soll auf mein lokales Qnap NAS gehen, was ca. um 20:00 gestartet wird. Das NAS beleibt bis ca. Mitternacht an und wird dann abgeschaltet...
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    Fileserver with backup

    Hi, Is there a good practice where to put the data, so you don't get very large backups of the virtual machine? I'm thinking I should put the data outside the VM and then mount it into the VM. But I could be wrong here? Create a volume for data Create a VM/LXC for running the fileserver (in...
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    How to share bulk storage across guests using Samba or mount points?

    I've setup my hardware storage layer using LVM/LVM thin, and now I'm trying to figure out how to share bulk storage across guests (e.g. between a Debian server and a Jellyfin container) in such a way that it's not included in container back-ups. I've found two approaches: 1. Samba on Proxmox...
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    rbind-ing a zfs mountpoint for LXC containers not working as expected

    Greetings folks, I've been trying to get a Samba share set up through an unprivileged Alpine LXC container. I have a ZFS storage pool that I would like to share with this (and other) containers. Thing is I want to do this with a recursive bindmount so that I can have other containers use the...
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    [SOLVED] Problem with samba server in a container

    Hi everyone, I want to use Proxmox for my home server and first tried to setup a samba server in a container, just to get started. The Problem is that the samba server is not reachable. It is shown on the network, but I get an error when I try to connect. The container itself is online. I used...
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    R7525 : VDI with spice, shared storage (NFS / Samba or TrueNAS ??) : help required on ideal configuration

    Hi All,, We have a R7525 Dell server (2 sockets, 64 cores/socket, 2 Ghz base clk, 3.2 Ghz boost clk, 128 GB RAM, 96TB [8TB x 12] 7200 rpm SAS HDD, Dell BOSS S1 SSD 240G RAID1 boot, H745 PERC RAID controller with PCIe 4.0 bus. 2 x 2 raiser slots are available, one is having H745 RAID...
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    Timeout loading datastore content

    Hi, I am currently trying to solve a timeout issue while loading the content of a datastore. I have a datastore on the server that write directly to a SSD. The second datastore is a samba share that is connected via VPN. I run all of the backup jobs and after that I have a sync job running...
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    [SOLVED] PBS - Mounting Windows SMB Share as Datastore

    I have a PBS that, currently, is working fine as a backup server for my PVE node. On that PVE node I have a WindowsVM running Backblaze personal. What I would like to do is backup the PBS to Backblaze through that Windows VM. My plan for accomplishing that: (Assume that the normal backups are...
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    Shared Storage on a Gigabyte Home Network

    Hello all, I have been thinking of setting up Shared Storage for 3 Proxmox nodes. This will mean 4 systems (NAS, pve1, pve2, pve3). The NAS (for lack of a better name) will share to the 3 nodes using NFS or SMB and will hold all the VMs and CTs only; it will not be used as a multimedia server...
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    Directory in PBS for SAMBA and Rsync

    Folks I was doing a NAS box and I am tempted to make it a PBS for fun and learning. This is at home and I do not have intense backup needs but my linux laptop could get backed up. It has 10TB of Raidz1 store and that is where I will target the backup to be stored (say /my10tb-store). I...
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    a mounted samba folder is empty, a subfolder of this dataset isn't why is this?

    Hi there, I have a zfs dataset mounted to a container with samba. When I mount mp0: /mnt/QData/QMedia,mp=/mnt/media I can only see the subfolders of this QMedia folder and only one level deep When I mount mp0: /mnt/QData/QMedia/pictures,mp=/mnt/media I can see all subfolders several braches...
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    Proxmox 7.2 samba on host unprivileged lxc empty directory problem

    Hi There, I wanted to experiment with jellyfin so I installed a Debian 11 container. I have my data on a zfs with dataset QData\QMedia etc I have samba up and running and the shares are accessible from windows computers. However I can't seem to access the content inside the root mounted...

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