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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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    Passthrough a ZFS dataset to LXC to create a Samba File share

    Hello, I am creating a SMB Server for my office. I have ZFS Pool which is shared by VMS and File share I am planning to deploy. I want to keep the proxmox as a hypervisor and not host SAMBA from it. The other option is LXC with turnkey file server which creates a single large file which is...
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    Extremely SLOW Ceph Storage from over 60% usage ???

    We have a "Lab" Ceph Object Storage consisting of a 4x Multinode Server and the following Node components: Per Node: PVE Manager Version pve-manager/7.1-7/df5740ad Kernel Version Linux 5.13.19-2-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.13.19-4 (Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:10:09 +0100) 24 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5675 @...
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    FAILED 04:03:30 error pruning backups - check log

    Hello all, I'm having issues with a backup of a vm on my proxmox server (version 6.4.8). The backup destination is a drobo NAS with a CIFS/Samba share, here's the error: 100: 2021-06-25 08:59:15 INFO: removing backup 'drobo-35:backup/vzdump-qemu-100-2021_06_21-05_00_02.vma.zst' 100: 2021-06-25...
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    [TUTORIAL] Firewall rules for a Samba AD DC

    I finally managed to fully enable the firewall (Input+Output DROP) on all of my VMs, including a Samba AD DC and a Samba File Server. Since the firewall macro "SMB" is not sufficient in this case, and because I didn't find an answer in the forums, here are the necessary directives: Samba AD DC...
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    How to back up a folder only

    Hello there! I'm currently in the process of planning out a system for a new setup I'm working on. This will, of course, include PVE to be the host of some Windows VMs and other smaller stuff. Also, I want to host some sort of NAS (samba-only is enough) from that same host/server machine. So...
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    Samba VM vs CT

    Dear all, Yesterday, I tried to launch a new file server in order to find out if I should use VM or CT, I tested both. Using only default options, I created: Container using an Ubuntu 20 template. VM using Ubuntu 20 server ISO. I then installed samba from the repos, added a share with no...