SMB Share in LXC

[ams123]

Currently having trouble accessing a SMB share from my Ubuntu 18.04 LXC. For my Ubuntu VM's I do this with FSTAB but that does not work for a Ubuntu LXC. I read that I should use a bind mount but I am not sure how to do that with a SMB share, I think I understand how to add a line to my LXC .conf file for a Host directory but not a SMB share.

Can some do a little hand holding here and help me translate my FSTAB entry into a bind mount for my LXC.

//192.168.x.x/ChannelsDVR/ /home/dvr/RecordedTV cifs user=usr,password=pw,uid=usr,gid=usr,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

My SMB share is coming from Open Media Vault which manages all my data disk as a VM in Proxomox. Because I want to maintian flexibility as my storage needs change and to share ourside of my proxmox host I would like to keep OMV managing all my data disks.

 

[oguz]

hi,

I read that I should use a bind mount but I am not sure how to do that with a SMB share, I think I understand how to add a line to my LXC .conf file for a Host directory but not a SMB share.

Can some do a little hand holding here and help me translate my FSTAB entry into a bind mount for my LXC.

you can simply mount the share on your host (via fstab for example), and then use a bind mount to pass it to the container.

add the bind mount entry in /etc/pve/lxc/CTID.conf

mp0: /path/to/share_on_your_host,mp=/path/to/mount

so for example if i have a share mounted on my host at /mnt/share and i want to bind mount that in my container to /home/user/files

mp0: /mnt/share,mp=/home/user/files

if you are using an unprivileged container (it's the default when creating on GUI), you might also have to adapt the file permissions/owners in the share, so the user in the container can access them.

 

[ams123]

OK that option makes sense to me but I have run into trouble if the SMB share is not available when linux boots. In this case it won't be since it's from one of the VMs.