Mount SMB share to host?

[Dunuin]

Hi,

Some of my unprivileged LXCs are using data from SMB shares. Because mounting SMB shares inside the LXC isn't possible, I mounted the SMB shares directly to the host (fstab entry) and bind-mounted that mountpoint into my LXC. I changed the user/group remapping and everything works fine...except that I always need to run mount -a first or the shares woundn't be mounted and without the mounted shares the LXCs can't be started.

What is the right way to auto mount a SMB share to the host at boot?

Like I said editing /etc/fstab doesn't work as I thought. Works fine with VMs (no need to manually run mount -a there) but not on the proxmox host itself.
I also thought about adding a CIFS-Storage using the proxmox GUI but I need to set the UID and GID and the GUI isn't offering options to set that.

This is my fstab entry:

# <file system>                                 <mount point>                   <type>  <options>                                                                               <dump>  <pass>
//192.168.45.1/Ebooks                           /media/Ebooks                   cifs    auto,rw,credentials=/root/.smb_ebooks,uid=1102,gid=1102,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770    0       0

I also encountered problems with CIFS storages (managed by the proxmox GUI) going into "unknown" state if the connection to the NAS is lost. I looked at the logs of my monitoring tool and the NAS was only offline for some minutes but proxmox didn't remount the shares half a day later. So it looks like my proxmox isn't trying to remount a SMB share until I reboot the complete server.

Is there some kind of deamon that I can use to auto mount SMB shares and that will monitor the share and remounts it automatically if a share is available again?

How are you handling SMB shares?

 

[Bertiks]

My storage is also mounted on the host.
I share it from the host with smb and for the LXC's I add the mount point from the GUI or from the terminal:

root@pve:~# pct set LXC_Number -mp0 /host_mountPoint,mp=/LXC_folder

 

[Dunuin]

My storage is also mounted on the host.
I share it from the host with smb and for the LXC's I add the mount point from the GUI or from the terminal:

root@pve:~# pct set LXC_Number -mp0 /host_mountPoint,mp=/LXC_folder

Yes, that is already working fine. Bind-mounting folders from host to LXC works. That problem is that SMB shares are not automatically mounted on the proxmox host.