[TUTORIAL] Tutorial: Unprivileged LXCs - Mount CIFS shares

[xman111]

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?

 

[garzzz]

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?

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...

 

[xman111]

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...

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.

 

[BrickFrog]

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?

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.