Ensure this is a privileged container if you want to mount shares from other containers, otherwise it can be an unprivileged container.

Using the Proxmox GUI, create a container using the latest Ubuntu template. Run ip a to find out the IP address of your SMB container. You will want to note down the SMB user’s ID for later (to enable mounting these shares on other containers) by running id -u smbusr. Last, restart the service & allow it through the firewall. Now edit your SMB configuration, nano /etc/samba/smb.conf, by adding at the end your share details: comment = Share on the Data Pool path = /mnt/Data/Share read only = no writeable = yes browsable = yes force user = smbusr

Next, create a directory to share, eg: mkdir /mnt/Data/Share& own it as smbusr by running: chown -R smbusr /mnt/Data/Share. To confirm that Samba is installed, run: whereis samba the output should show you the installed locations, samba: /usr/sbin/samba /usr/lib/samba /etc/samba /usr/share/samba /usr/share/man/man7/samba.7.gz /usr/share/man/man8/samba.8.g.Īfter installing the service, we will need to create a user that can manage the shares & enable it to use the service adduser -system smbusr smbpasswd -a smbusr That should get you up-to-date on the software side of things. As this container is for serving shares, it shouldn’t really need much more in terms of resource allocation.Ĭonsole into your container & run: apt update & apt upgrade -y apt install net-tools #Needed for ifconfig, etc. My resources were set to 1 CPU, 8 GB storage, 512 MB RAM. I switched my network settings to be DHCP instead of the default static. Most options can be left at their defaults.

Using the Proxmox GUI, create an unprivileged container.

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