File Server into container LXC

[Wesley Garcia]

Is there a problem in creating a file server inside a container, so that the files (xml, doc etc) are inside the file structure of the own container (/ storage)?
sorry the English

 

[guletz]

Hello Garcia,

I do it and it is working, at least with a lxc container (ubuntu lts and samba4 as AD and file server).

 

[Wesley Garcia]

Guletz,

The file server files are either mounted in a directory or are part of the
container's own file system ?

 

[LnxBil]

The file server files are either mounted in a directory or are part of the
container's own file system ?

Both works fine with Samba, you have to tweak the security parameters to get NFS working, though.

 

[wbumiller]

Any regular user space file server should run fine, be it samba, ftp, web based (apache/nginx) or something else. It doesn't really matter where or how the files are stored, though I generally do recommend separating the system partition from the data partition because it makes it easier to backup the data without having to backup the entire system. (I like replaceable system disks ;-) )

(I don't recommend running NFS inside a container, though, as it really needs a lot of tweaking to basically remove most of the security mechanisms.)