Create ZFS Pool, Linux LXC Container for Samba/SMB in Proxmox - Home Server Network & File Sharing

[@brianames835]

This is BRILLIANT! It took me longer to find this video then to actually follow your guide. My Proxmox sever hardware setup is laughable for sure but who needs TrueNAS when all I really need is a simple smb share for my network. My zfs pool is 3 x 2.5 inch 2TB spinners in a raidz1. Not blazing fast but it works. Thanks for doing this!

[@temptempy6750]

The amount of time saved in trying to DO this by watching this is measured in hours!!! +1

[@r.cooper5505]

Just wanted to thank you. Really great video without any nonsense. I prefer this style and wish you had more.

[@Cuevista]

@@r.cooper5505 Thank you! I’m working on trying to produce more videos. Is there anything particular you’re interested in?

[@Jevlumba]

Following this guide I was able to setup my Samba share, but I am having a hard time adding it on another of my ProxMox servers on the same network. Datacenter -> Storage -> Add: SMB/CIFS -> Fill in settings and I get the error "Create storage failed: mkdir /mnt/pve/testSMB/images: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm line 1421. (500)" What can I do to add the share?

[@alielahi490]

First of all, thank you for your instructions. Please, if you can, show us how we can connect to the Samba server from outside using dyndns.

[@Cuevista]

@@alielahi490 I will check into it. Thank you!

[@asnovasdodia]

Best and easiest thing you can do is configure a VPN with a dynDNS and then, if you're not on the network, you can turn on that VPN and connect to your Samba share as if you were in the network. I don't know any other way (but I'm not an expert either).

[@alielahi490]

@@Cuevista thank you very much 🙏

[@General_Whoflungpoo]

Did you not get R/W errors in the SMB? According to proxmox you should have also "change the container UID mapping" as the LXC is unprivileged. I'm also looking to drop truenas for a simple samba/ftp LXC but kept getting R/W issues.

[@Cuevista]

Hmmm?!? No, I did not get any read/write issues.

[@matm3745]

Благодарю, теперь стабильная скорость по SMB 110MB/S и загрузки CPU 4% и MEM 9Gb, в отличии от TrueNAS.

[@ReisalTrax]

Can i use it for giving PLEX a directory for my movies? Did not find any easy description like yours... So i mean does Plex find it too?

[@Cuevista]

@@ReisalTrax Yes, you can. Just use the full path.

[@ReisalTrax]

@@Cuevista Thank you a lot!

[@marcbrown3922]

when i try to map this share to windows it say " Windows cannot access \\192.168.0.113" followed by check the spelling of the name. otherwise there might be a network problem" I tried to diagnose and it say no errors detected ,,,,and advice...?

[@Cuevista]

Hmmm?!? Try adding the full path \\192.168.0.113\[share name]

[@marcbrown3922]

Sorted it works great

[@Rinzzer36]

Thanks for the video was really helpful. Could you please do one for *arr. services such as radar, sonar, and. prowler, where in you connecting the samba share to all the * are services along with a torrent client. Also when I tried to restart the service goat this error - Job for smbd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status smbd.service" and "journalctl -xeu smbd.service" for details. Could you please help.

[@Cuevista]

I have never worked with those; however, you should be able to map them inside the container you create as a shared folder. As far as the error goes, double check your settings in the smb.conf. Make sure you are mapped to the pool. Sometimes you have to include additional folders to get to the pool path depending on your setup.