Host NAS inside LXC Container | TurnKey FileServer LXC Template | Proxmox Home Server | Home Lab

In previous videos i demonstrated how you can create VM for Trues or Open Media Vault inside your Proxmox home server. But what if both of these options are not good for you. What if your Proxmox host CPU don't have support for VMs. Let me tell you that there is another way to have SMB server running inside proxmox. In this video i will show you how to create ZFS pool and dataset, how to passtrought that dataset in to LXC container. And for LXC container we will use FileServer LXC which was created by the TURNKEY Linux Team.

- Series Playlist

- Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:37 TurnKey Linux
01:05 FileServer LXC Template
02:13 Create Fileserver LXC
04:00 Enable nesting
04:15 Create ZFS / Dateset
05:38 Passthrought Dateset to LXC
07:18 Starting LXC for 1st time
08:30 Accessing Web GUI first time
09:42 Creating USER
10:07 File permissions
11:42 Creating SMB Share
14:03 Testing SMB
16:25 THe End Chat

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[PIKLU]

this video should be more upvoted. Entire execution was flawless and smooth. clearly understandable. Clearly you have knowledge and know what you are doing.

[brine]

I was looking for simple hands-on example of using ZFS, and reddit brought me here. That's a great tutorial to learn basics, thank you for making it!

[de_Atavist]

I spent the better part of an entire day searching for truenas scale alternatives that would allow me to keep my storage. Tried a debian12 cockpit setup with much headbanging... Followed this and I am in business ...Thanks a million Sir

[aeons]

Someone on Reddit recommended this video to set this up, you made it so simple! Thank You

[antonior.]

Thanks! Simple, fast and efficient.
Best of all, this tutorial will not become outdated even if the years go by and the fileserver version number increases.

[justinbell]

Absolutely amazing video. I've spent the last two hours looking for something as clear and concise as this. Great job!

[joostul]

This might be the best Youtube video I ever saw in my life.

[Nphr]

This is exactly what I wanted to do and it works flaweless with your instructions, thank you so much!

[realifejon]

MAN THIS VIDEO IS After MONTHS of trying to get Cockpit running, literally this worked in under 1hr. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

BTW if anyone runs into the Webmin not loading anymore:
run the following in the LXC shell:
apt-get update

[andycg]

Man, this was a great video. I was able to get everything done in a few minutes and got it working like a champ.

[wat]

this is exactly what i was looking for. good job. i need to run the vid a .75% speed but thats what the setting is for!!

[MinionTheThird]

one word INCREDIBLE. Thank you so much! Its one thing to know exactly what you need to do and a completely different thing when you need to explain it others.

[sven]

Thanks for this, I'm setting up a new local ProxMox NAS to replace an old local baremetal OMV install and was struggling with getting this to work. [also tried cockpit] Was about to go back to OMV. Edit to add I'd tried to follow other videos and this is the only one that so-far worked properly for me.

[jmaesing]

thanks for disclosing that this isn't the safest way, it's good to have that in mind until i get a safer solution working

[phanoverol]

excellent explanation. gets through a lot but nothing missed. well done sir!

[arjanscheper]

Thank you!

After 2 days of trying to get it worked this helped me.
Only thing is that I dont use ZFS and went with the directory option and using that.
now to add my other drives and share those directory's

[BenyHirmansyah]

Thank you so much for this amazing and detailed video! I have N5105 box with proxmox, opnsense, home assistant and now is samba share. All thanks because of your amazing tutorial videos. I'm so happy ☺ God bless you mate!!

[hayzeproductions]

Have found that using LXC containers were far better in performance as well lower cpu and ram usage compared to creating vm's. Why I discovered this a few months ago when using proxmox for years went right over my head. But glad to find out using containers were better. You can get more out of your proxmox server using LXC containers. Definitely up voting this video. How did I find this out?
Did a test simply mining crypto using cpu.
Ran each one individually, VM hash rate on 8 core cpu with 8 gigs of ram only gave me 49h/s
Created LXC container, same specs, ran the same mining software and coin. Immediately threw down 600 - 700h/s
Never did deep research on what the containers are capable of. However I did noticed with mining software it was able to analyze the hardware on server and specify the exact cpu. This is a give away to me that you can seamlessly use graphics cards with LXC containers since it can be hardware detectable.

[madmari]

Very useful - clear and concise, I was able to follow and quickly set it up.

[pealock]

Pacing was a tad fast but overall this video is awesome. Thank you for creating such a detailed and helpful tutorial!