Sharing External Hard Drives with Proxmox Containers and VM's

How to share a TrueNAS, Windows, Synology, or even a USB hard drive with Proxmox containers and virtual machines.
nano /etc/fstab
//192.168.1.13/Temp /mnt/Temp cifs username=(YOUR USERNAME),password=(YOUR PASSWORD),iocharset=utf8,noperm 0 0
mount -a
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[@vrensul]

Might want to add: if someone already has a container they can convert it to privileged by -> stop, create a backup, restore from the backup just made (select privilege), then options->Features, and then start.

[@LoResDIY]

Thanks for sharing. Cheers

[@florin1715]

@min 11:02 ..... You CAN copy/paste inside the proxmox vm shell windows: SHIFT + INS to PASTE

[@LoResDIY]

Thanks for the info

[@markh2827]

Thankyou, this video has put me in the right direction with my network shares. Keep up the good work 🙂

[@LoResDIY]

Great to hear!

[@coletraintechgames2932]

1. LGB 2. Thanks a TON! 3. I am getting this "mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload." everything works, just wondering about it 4. THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOUR VIDEOS ARE KILLIN' IT!

[@LoResDIY]

LGB I get that message also, but haven't investigated because everyhting is working.

[@DoPESTaaRH]

How do you mount a USB storage device to the ubuntu container? I can see the USB device in the hardware option for my Windows VM but can't do the same in my Ubuntu container...

[@markusklarmann5187]

Thank you. Great Video, but is there a way of sharing a mounted storage like an internal hdd, which is mounted to proxmox itself with the containers an VMs?

[@fvgoya]

I wish to know that too.

[@ierosgr]

Nice video and presentation as well. I think the title is misleading though. Importing remote shares to VMs and Containers would be more appropriate. If you would format an external hdd connected to proxmox and then use a portion of it or all of it as raw space then your title would beore suitable. Of course then you could just add a second storage to a VM and not import something that has already data .In any case your title is weird for the specific video.

[@Eliastaye6]

Agreed man I was looking for something else

[@HaitiSpaceAgency]

you've got your share directly on the proxmox machine in this example? I'm having issues following this but i think i'm trying to do something differently, because I thought you had your share on a separate container. Does that make sense? I am not clever.

[@repairman2be250]

Thanks for the video. I would not say it is a work around as such, because you cannot have 2 mounts, as you did, in the very same directory.

[@LoResDIY]

Thanks for the info!

[@redondop1798]

HI LoRes. After mount -a I got the diagnostic message "mount: /mnt: mount(2) system call failed: Operation now in progress. dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call". because of "system call failed", from Proxmox node I tried to ping the external server, which is my pc (connected with the proxmox server pc through ethernet cable) and I couln´t ping it. but I can ping the proxmox server from the external server pc! Promox node, LXC, and external server have the same subnet (24). Info: I am connecting from the external server pc to the proxmox server via the web server with 192.168.xx.xx.8xxx! any idea?

[@JspectraX]

Hello, I've got a problem! Everytime I enter the command "mount -a", it just says "file is read only". I unticked the read-only option on Windows 11 and it just reverts back. Any fix to this? I've tried everything I could.

[@fourex59]

Could your please type out the command line you were using. Because you. blurred out your username : password everything after that could not be read in order for us to follow the correct format and syntax needed. Thank your so much.

[@LoResDIY]

Thank You for pointing that out. I have added the text to the description.

[@fourex59]

@@LoResDIY I appreciate your promptness in responding. Also I love your tutorials. They are great!

[@LoResDIY]

No problem cheers 🍻

[@kristopher2506]

I know you said you don't have much experience with Docker but if I installed docker in a container, can I still follow this guide to add a network share? If so, would I be able to direct a service to utilize that share? What I am trying to do is have a container with Wireguard and Transmission separate from my Plex Media Server VM which hosts Plex and my share. Thanks for your guides! I am moving from a Pi4 to a Dell Optiplex Proxmox server and your videos have been great for a newbie.

[@LoResDIY]

Yes you should be able to do all of that.

[@onedjscream]

Thanks! For some reason I'm getting this error and it's not clear why. I'm using. an ubuntu 24 VM. mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system mount error(19): No such device Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages

[@aijokker]

What about share with unprivileged container?

[@0views372]

Hey I'm very new to proxmox and these stuff in general and I'm looking to connect an external hard drive that's physically connected to my node. In it, I have a container with jellyfin and I'm looking to be able to find that hard drive's files/media. Could you point me or guide me on how to get this set up please. I've tried searching for the terms lxc USB passthrough and this was one of the videos that showed up but I could be misunderstanding it, as in this video, the drive you're adding has an IP address but mine does not Thank you

[@robertd5916]

2.19 I don't have ubuntu on the list, where to download and where to add it to appear on the list.

[@YannMetalhead]

Good explanation.

[@dustind9242]

Any tips on making it writeable? I've tried doing it in the terminal after it's been mounted, but to no avail. I'm unable to override the permissions. Not sure if there are additional comments that need to be made in fstab or elsewhere. Thx

[@LoResDIY]

Make sure your permissions are right, and the username and password are correct.

[@dustind9242]

@@LoResDIY Wanted to reply incase it might help anyone else. My NAS is an unraid server. Despite having RW permissions setup upon creation of the share, I had to go back and redo it again (on the unraid side) after it was mounted to my proxmox/ubuntu vm to get it all working.

[@repairman2be250]

Always, create a new directory under /mnt . Not wise to use /mnt only.

[@eltoniozamora2898]

Fantastic video.... Every time the container restarts I have to do a mount - a, any help is needed

[@LucasFelix3]

Did you manage to avoid this? Any solution?

[@LoResDIY]

Check the description of the video

[@LucasFelix3]

@@LoResDIY Do you mean the description of the previous video? I ran that command yesterday and my proxmox lost internet connection...so I had to revert back to get access to the web gui again :/

[@LucasFelix3]

Update! I managed to get it working using the steps in this video, after reviewing something I had done wrong. The problem was happening because inside the file "/etc/pve/lxc/(container you want to add the share too; example 100.conf)" I still had the line "mp0: /mnt/(Your Share), mp=/mnt/" from the previous tutorial. It was enough to remove it and now everything works as it should and the folder is mounted automatically after the reboot! Thanks!

[@jag5cof]

Thanks for video

[@LoResDIY]

No problem Cheers friend!

[@SimotheSniper]

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[@coletraintechgames2932]

LGB!

[@LoResDIY]

LGB!!