Proxmox - set up a network-shared ZFS dataset

[It's wednesday my dudes]

Until now I was running a virtual Openmediavault and passing through the hard disks. But this got too annoying, so I decided to use Proxmox directly as file server. My plan was to set up a ZFS storage and share it via network. But I struggle to configure it properly and I cannot find any resources online which help to solve my problem (I guess since it is OpenZFS and not Oracle ZFS?)

I have a dataset local-zfs/files, which I want to share via smb and nfs. If I do

zfs set sharesmb=on local-zfs/files

the share will appear as local_zfs_files and with no guess user access. What I acutally want, is a share usable without any login (guest user) and with a simpler name (just "files"). All the options like zfs set share=name=files,guestok=true... seem not to work or are Oracle-specific. Can I do that somehow? Or do I have to configure the smb share manually?

 

[fabian]

I'd recommend setting up Samba yourself, the built-in support is rather limited/broken in OpenZFS in my experience..

 

[UdoB]

You might look into something like

• https://github.com/bashclub/zamba-lxc-toolbox

This is just a script which setups a container with Samba, including some clever details that are hard to achieve manually. The storage itself would stay on the host and is "injected" into that container using mount points.

This way the chance to affect/damage the Proxmox software suite on the host is minimal.

Best regards

 

[It's wednesday my dudes]

Thanks, looks interesting, i will check it out!