[TUTORIAL] Tutorial: Unprivileged LXCs - Mount CIFS shares

i am making some progress on this.. able to get everything working, except for Plex being able to see the contents of the directory. it's weird as i can go to the console of Plex, see the mount, see the files but Plex says the directory is empty. any ideas?
 
xman111 said:
i am making some progress on this.. able to get everything working, except for Plex being able to see the contents of the directory. it's weird as i can go to the console of Plex, see the mount, see the files but Plex says the directory is empty. any ideas?
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It seems that i have a similar issue with jellyfin. I've added the user "jellyfin" to the lxc-shares group (10000), the webpage sees the mounted folder, while being root in the console i have full read/write access, but the library scan doesn't work.

Did you find a solution? Maybe i'll add also lxc root to the shared group, but at this point i guess it's almost the same issue of having a privileged container...
 
garzzz said:
It seems that i have a similar issue with jellyfin. I've added the user "jellyfin" to the lxc-shares group (10000), the webpage sees the mounted folder, while being root in the console i have full read/write access, but the library scan doesn't work.

Did you find a solution? Maybe i'll add also lxc root to the shared group, but at this point i guess it's almost the same issue of having a privileged container...
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i haven't. pretty much given up. I found it a lot easier to spin up a VM, mount the shares and then everything seems to work. will try again when i have some time off over the holidays. it really shouldn't be so difficult.
 
xman111 said:
i am making some progress on this.. able to get everything working, except for Plex being able to see the contents of the directory. it's weird as i can go to the console of Plex, see the mount, see the files but Plex says the directory is empty. any ideas?
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I've got the same issue as many others have said in here. I can see the files/folders from the plex LXC as root (via shell), but Plex cannot (via GUI). My SMB LXC was created with cockpit using this guide. That LXC and GUi setup is nice to work with.

I've read through everything on here and can't see anything that's glaringly different in my config. The user 'plex' is in the lxc_shares group mentioned in the beginning, but root is not, so it's a bit confusing as to what's happening.


I was able to get the SMB share to work on a Ubuntu VM. It was very finnicky and took a few reboots and lots of plugging around. This at least lets me get my plex up, until the LXC issue is resolved.

Process followed on VM:
Used this guide a bit
mkdir /plexmedia /plexmedia/tv /plexmedia/movies
chmod -R 755 /plexmedia/*

My fstab:
//myip/plexmedia /plexmedia cifs auto,defaults,nofail,credentials=/etc/plex.cred,uid=plex 0 0

My plex.cred:
username=plex
password=mypassword

Then "sudo mount -a" to mount the fstab

On my Docker LXC user 'plex' is part of 'plexusers' with rxw permissions.

I'm not sure what else is different after this point. I rebooted a few times in here, tried a bunch of other fstab changes and config changes.
 
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I have just installed Jellyfin on Proxmox and connected it to a Synology NAS which is also running on another instance of Proxmox. From the jellyfish LXC shell I can see and touch the files on the NAS. However the jellyfish web interface is blank. any suggestions, support is much appreciated.
 
*** SOLVED *** I installed Samba onto Proxmox via the shell and that seemed to have done the trick, however I now have the same issue as some of the others here in that Jellyfin can see the mounted folder but none of the subfolders

Hi I am trying to follow the guide but with I get to step three on setting up the share on the host i get this error message


Code: 
root@homelab-n01:~# mount /mnt/lxc_shares/FS01
mount error(111): could not connect to 192.168.1.165Unable to find suitable address.

If I try to access using smbclient I get this error message


Code: 
root@homelab-n01:~# smbclient //192.168.1.165/FS01
Password for [WORKGROUP\root]:
do_connect: Connection to 192.168.1.165 failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
root@homelab-n01:~#

I can see and access the share fine from both my Mac and Windows PC

any help would be greatly appreciated
 
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I have a similar problem i can see the contents of my shared folders when i Jellyfin LXC shell to the folders
but running the Jellyfin GUI i can see the folders ive created but not the contents of the folders, Anyone
have an idea what ive missed ? i'd say a read/write issue but i can modify files ok when i use shell and access the files
 
The most amazing part of how difficult this seems to be is that the shares I'm trying to get my LXC containers to access are open shares with no security on them. Anyone on my network can access the share with any computer...except of course any service running in an LXC container on Proxmox. Seems like Proxmox is making this harder than it needs to be.
 
I'm struggling quite a lot with this and wondering if anyone can help. I followed the instructions exactly but I get the following error when I try to mount in the host. Looked everywhere but can't seem to work out what the problem is!

mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
 
Instead of creating the mount point on each PVE host under (2.), use the data center. on item "Storage" do add -> SMB/CIFS

You find mounts on /mnt/pve/[ID you have chosen in the dialog] on each proxmox node. By adding the ",shared=1" after the bind mount in LXC_ID.conf, you can migrate the container.
 
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