Trying to setup a simple media server, plex,sonarr,qbittorrent - shared drive woes

[nomadmike]

I seem to be going around in circles!

Fresh install PVE 7.4 run updates - reboot fresh system, I have tried the following several times over the last week or two.

Create a container Ubuntu 22.04 add sudo user bob - update
Convert to a template, clone it for Plex, install plex server
Clone it for Sonarr, Jackett and Qbittorrent
add user to pve bob with admin access
add shared folder using separate HDD mount to the two containers via ct.config, reboot pve

I can see the folder share in Sonarr but it will not let me add it as the root folder!!
mess around with cmod and chown manage to get sonarr to add as root, add series, qbit downloads, error in sonarr cannot find file to import, messa bout with cmod chown on /Downloads folder for qbit no luck

read about uid mapping made no sense, where do I get the uid's and where do I add them to map???

I tried using these container scripts https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ (awesome scripts) hoping the creator had sorted permissions but get the same error

Fresh install again - followed the Youtube guide on installing FS mounted the drive on the containers - can see the drive - same problems again!!

Why is it so difficult to share a folder across containers.

If I create each container as a privaliged container will that solve the permissions problem?

Does anyone have a super simple step by step guide I could follow, noob friendly - I have just run another fresh install and run updates - rebooted ready to try again!!

 

[zxTheLegendXz]

Did you ever figure this out? trying to get my server going, and want to get this going first to make sure I have it all correct. If things start to mess up, i can then just start fresh without worry of the rest of it.

 

[leckytech]

I am in exactly the same position. I have never used Linux before let alone Proxmox. I have however managed to create 3 containers (Plex,Sonarr and SABNZBD) using https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ and I have managed to mount my USB drive on the host and in each container. Unfortunately although the 3 containers can see the usb drive folder structure, I cant write to them! Ive been at it 2 days reading up on everything I can related to it but to no avail. I assumed the user "sonarr" on the sonarr container needed to be added to the host but it wont let me add that user as a group with that name already exists. I then created a group called "htpc" on the host and did the same on the sonarr container hoping to add the user sonarr to htpc and map from the host to the container but it just wont let me do anything. Im logged in a root! Such a pain. I might just VM windows and install it all in there.

 

[karank]

I am in exactly the same position. I have never used Linux before let alone Proxmox. I have however managed to create 3 containers (Plex,Sonarr and SABNZBD) using https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ and I have managed to mount my USB drive on the host and in each container. Unfortunately although the 3 containers can see the usb drive folder structure, I cant write to them! Ive been at it 2 days reading up on everything I can related to it but to no avail. I assumed the user "sonarr" on the sonarr container needed to be added to the host but it wont let me add that user as a group with that name already exists. I then created a group called "htpc" on the host and did the same on the sonarr container hoping to add the user sonarr to htpc and map from the host to the container but it just wont let me do anything. Im logged in a root! Such a pain. I might just VM windows and install it all in there.

are you able to copy any file from proxmox host itself to usb drive? if no then probably the usb is not in the accepted format for linux. try formatting it in your windows machine with fat32 type format and try again.

 

[leckytech]

I got it working using this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa2Q7tZVol8&t=180s. . Then Proxmox kept crashing so I gave up and run everything on windows in the end. Its working perfect now.

Tip: Dont use an NTFS external drive!