Paperless-ngx Using Docker With A Shared Consume Folder

Paperless-ngx Using Docker With A Shared Consume Folder

Welcome back to our channel, tech enthusiasts! In today's episode, we're venturing into the realm of document management by setting up Paperless-ngx on an Ubuntu server using Docker. Paperless-ngx is an exceptional tool designed to help you manage and archive your digital documents with ease. But that's not all - we're also going to install Samba and create a shared folder. This will allow users to effortlessly import their documents into Paperless-ngx. So, if you're ready to streamline your document management process, let's dive right in!

#PaperlessNgx #Docker #DocumentManagement #SelfHosted #DigitalArchive

Curl commands to download the necessary files:

Move command to rename the docker-compose file:

Create the superuser:
docker-compose run --rm webserver createsuperuser

Install samba:
sudo apt-get install samba -y

Confirm service is running:

Add new user:
sudo adduser paperless

Add the user to samba:
sudo smbpasswd -a paperless

Set permissions:
sudo apt-get install acl
sudo setfacl -R -m "u:paperless:rwx" /path/to/paperless/consumption/directory

Sample Samba share:
[paperless]
comment = paperless consumption
path = /path/to/paperless/consumption/directory
read only = no
writable = yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
valid users = @paperless

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[adooken]

I had so many issues with getting samba to work. Your ACL step fixed it all. Thank you! <3

[Jumogoh]

Finally I can import and scan documents directly into paperless. Thank you a thousand times!

[volkervitt]

Short, precise and to the point! Thanks for this perfekt video.

[greekboydinos]

love this style of tutorial making—thanks and please keep up the good work

[gmfer]

Best guide so far by a mile... Thnak you so much!

[konnec]

perfect tutorial, just when i needed it. thank you!

[stampeder]

This is GREAT STUFF. I have my paperless-ngx docker container running and now thanks to you i have the share created. Now my only issue is that I have a Documents folder created on my QNAP NAS that I would like to pull over to my paperless-ngx container. I am a little fuzzy on how to do this part? Thanks again for the great video!!

[jecolonusa]

Excellent video :) where can I find a tutorial on how to use paperless behind a reverse proxy (Nginx) ??? I appreciate your help

[kevin_kk]

Awesome video! On my end in place of "Samba" I'm using "Davos" for remote sync (for the love of GUI :) )

Keep making the 'Paperless-ngx' videos when you can, not many of them here on Youtube - Thanks!

[WayneStidolph]

Nicely organized content, thx. (As a minor aside, for *me* the background music makes the narration harder to follow)

[Foxhunter_DE]

I have troubles with it. I can see the paperless folder in my windows explorer after entering paperless and my password. when i try to access it, i get a permission denied. What am i doing wrong? followed your guide until this point.

[ducsue]

7:54 What program is this for storing your copied texts?

[nostradamus]

Didn't see you setting up the samba drive local IP? How did you get your IP set up? I'm unable to access the Samba drive from the Run window... Please help.

[RobFisherUK]

Do yourself a favour and run sudo snap list before apt install docker-compose. I didn't realise I was running the snap version of Docker, and now I have a right mess of an installation. Half the time docker ps returns an empty list because I'm running the wrong docker, or it's talking to the wrong daemon, or something. At one point I removed the snap version but that removed all my containers as well! I managed to restore them with sudo snap restore 1 and now I'm trying to figure out how to get my containers out so I can switch to using the official Docker release instead of whatever this snap version is.

[webpkric]

I tried this for ubuntu in WSL2. I get error at creating super user step. (1045, "Access denied for user 'paperless'@'172.20.0.6' (using password: YES)")

[JuanS_DuodecimStudio]

i add this line to -

fragment of code
volumes:
- data:/usr/src/paperless/data
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-
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env_file: docker-compose.env


logs still say : Using inotify to watch directory for changes: /usr/src/paperless/consume

i add to this to env but the folder still default ...


PAPERLESS_EXPORT_DIR= /usr/src/paperless/export