How to setup Turnkey Linux Fileserver on Proxmox VE
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- This guide goes over how to use Turnkey Linux to make a simple fileserver on Proxmox VE. This allows a easy to create, low resource fileserver on Proxmox VE easily. This method is also done all in the GUI, so no command line use is required to setup the file sharing.
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I can't find it in the Templates section. Do I need to add some repository?
You may need to run 'pveam update' on a newly installed proxmox system to refresh the list of containers. Otherwise the list will normally refresh if you give the systems a few days.
@@ElectronicsWizardry Thank you!!
@@ElectronicsWizardry it will help someone if you pin this comment
@@ananthutthilakan total newbie to homelabs, it helped me!
@@ananthutthilakan Confirmed "pveam update" fixed this in on a fresh install of proxmox 7.3. It added 109 items and 'turnkeylinux'
for those who are showing this amazing video in 2022, with proxmox 7.3, make sure to keep checked both the "unprivileged" and "nesting" checkboxes, otherwise the installation partially failed. HTTPS services are not started and you can not access GUI @5:39
Sir, you are a legend when it comes to clarity
Thank you so much for this guide! Just switched my old Optiplex server from bare metal to Proxmox and I'm loving all the web UIs for setting all this up.
Thanks so much! Clear video, without any fluff. I was ready to install truenas. What a difference in resources between the two.
After struggling a lot with samba conf files, this is the best solution! Thank you. Got it up and running
Just come across your channel - your videos are clear and detailed, great content. I'm impressed
Excellent video and walk through. After a bit of research on running a NAS like truenas or something similar on top of Proxmox, I decided I didn't want to go that direction. Truenas seems like overkill as I just need storage for a NAS and not all it's other capabilities. At first I did run it via a VM but to pass through the disk seemed a bit cumbersome and took away the disk space from my other VM's. So in the end, Turnkey seems like a simpler and more efficient use of my 20tb storage on my ProxMox server. Thank you very much for the video!
short sweet and to the point. This is a reference video I keep coming back to whenever I am installing proxmox and its exactly what I need for small file shares.
you can't even imaging how frustrated I was before I found this video. I've tried setting it up with cockpit and 45 drives and open media vault and nothing was properly working for me. much love
For anyone wondering, you have to put in the initial set password @ 5:58 (login to webmin) and not the updated one.
thanks
lol.... wtf
Thanks for the walk through on this. Honestly for everything else i have on my little home lab NUC, this is what I really want. Simple SMB drive to move things as I need.
Brandon, thank you for sharing this video!
I had forgotten all about this fileserver appliance!
You've saved my life! :)
I'm going to set this up TODAY!
40 seconds in and It’s already a banger video!!! Love this!!!
Thanks a lot! It is a very simple setup, but your tutorial makes things painless. Usefull tuto thx again!
thank you for taking the time to make this video. i learned so much from this one and the many others you have created. thank you Brian!
Excellent job of explaining. Thank you.
This is incredibly useful! I'm quite familiar with NFS et al but this solution is way simpler. Thanks! Subscribed.
Excellent video, I just followed it and loaded it on Proxmox 8.1 and it's working like a dream. Thank you for the time and effort you put into this video.👏
Thanks for this video. You are clear and right to the point. I did install this and fumbled quite a bit on setup. I wished I watched this video first but I am glad that I seen this. I will redo some of the things I did since you made it so simp le. You are a good speaker and made it easy to understand,. thanks
Just the information I was looking for very well done tutorial. Thanks for sharing
This was incredibly helpful - thank you!
I thank the algorithm for suggesting your channel
I'd watched a few of your videos. All good stuff. But this is the one that convinced to me click subscribe. Thank you, sir.
Thank you for sharing! Keep up the good work.
Great Tutorial, helped me create a file sharing server which I needed desperately. Thank you for helping me connect some dots too.
Thanks for your video, it has helped me a lot, specially with the FileShare permissions configuration
Dude, I didn't know about these turnkey services. Thank you!
Thank you sir, an outstanding tutorial and excellent work!
easily the best video on this subject on youtube. Thank you
Excellent walkthrough but just an important warning about security...
Careful not to set a super simple password for the CT and assume it asks you to change it in the little wizard - it's a totally different password (Samba root account) - and won't actually be changed. This first password doubles up as the Webmin logon, so set a proper password from the start. If you need to change it, drop into the CT console and do a 'passwd' reset.
Hey Brandon! Huge thanks. to you. Really great video.
Thank you very much for your video. Followed your video and installed Turnkey file server. I did pass through a spinning HDD. To get it to work i had to follow the Proxmox wiki --> Unprivileged LXC containers.
Very nice guide, thank you very much. These Turnkey LXC Templates are very good...
thank you for a very informative and clear tutorial
as always a great useful video thanks for the content look foward to the next one !!
Just what I needed today. Thanks chap.
Thanks. Great guide. Nice and simple.
Hey buddy you saved me over 3 hour of tinkering
thanks a lot
Fantastic tutorial, thank you very much.
Thanks, I've actually managed to set this up!
Very good tutorial and I could follow along with some pauses and rewinds. A few times you switched away from the screen to talk what you were typing (e.g. the network tab when creating the container), I'd have preferred to see the screen.
Tremendous video. Thank you
thank you for your videos! keep up the good work !
Awesome walkthrough! thanks for a very clear rundown!
I'm trying to figure out how to passthrough HDMI to a proxmox VM running debian on my little intel NUC but cant find anyway to do it . If you get bored looking for another video to make that would be awesome!
Thank you so much for this, it helped me a ton!
Thank you for this! It is working.
Well done. Love your vids
Really great video. Thank you. Now I see what I was doing wrong.
very useful (and rare!) detailed explanation! thank you!
any tips on how to add zfs datapool to that CT?
This is great! Thanks!!
Great intro. Thank you for the tutorial. Would you mind showing one about how to pass through an external USB drive? I have managed to mount it in proxmox on the host, but the bind mounts for this container aren't working for some reason. I'd like to share a disk full of media to a number of media players around the house. NFS? SAMBA?
Great tutorial, thank you....
Thanks man! 😃
The Webmin interface would not let me change the /mnt/mydata permissions. In fact the whole right-click>Properties submenu was disabled. Strange since I was logged in as root with root:root ownership on the directory. So I switched over to the Web Shell interface, used the command "chown myuser:mygroup /mnt/mydata", and now the Webmin right-click>Properties submenu is fully enabled with no issues setting properties/permissions. Hope this helps anyone else who runs into this issue. Just change the above chown command to use the correct names of your owner (user name), group name, and directory path.
Thanks! I had the same problem!
Good guide.
I really enjoyed your presentation. It was very clear and easy to understand I do have a question. Is it possible to give access to the file server to a user over the Internet? I was thinking that maybe the file server could be port forwarded on the router to go directly to the container. What are your thoughts please?
thank you, i always wondered if proxmox would a good light nas.
Great stuff. TY
great!!! thanks man!!
Thank you so much!
great video
This is a nice alternative for my Synology NAS since I have ssd's in my proxmox cluster. Nice quiet fast (NVME) hourly backups. I can then backup that file server data to Synology NAS in the middle of the night. Then take snapshots of the baackups on Synology.. and of course hyper backup it to my friend's Synology NAS in another part of the country :)
Great tutorial Brandon. I was able to follow along and got it all to work. I had a number of issues along the way but each time I worked through them I was able to pick it back up from your video. Do you have a video showing how to bindmount a mounted drive on the pve host so it can be served by this (unpriviliged) file server LXC? That's my current goal.
I don’t have hide on bind mounting storage but am planning on making a video on accessing data between VMs and containers that will cover this as it’s a common issue. You should be able to make a mount point and give it a directory on a host.
Thanks!
Great video thanks!.
I did something slightly different but to the same effect - alpine Linux for small size and manual samba config from the shell ( because I like the pain :) ... Ah I mean the fun).
I have a question to the drive you make for the data. A dedicated lxc mount point as you did will end up as a subvolume-ctid-something dataset in the host zfs. Yet I find it easier to distinguish LXC drives from custom created datasets by simply passing a prior created dataset. In my case I made a dataset called apps and used that as mount point to the samba share. And here is the issue.. if using subvol I can back up a snapshot with the rootfs and the data. If I use custom dataset I can only back up the rootfs. Any hints on how to resolve this? Even if it means separate back up task?
Thank you dude :-)
Oh, man. I've only been using Isos this whole time, and been a little irritated at what a pain that can be. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! Now it's 9:15 and I can't wait to get out of work to play with the homelab.
Great video I did have to update my templates pool but got it all working now I just have to figure out how I can grant somebody access to the file share when they're outside of my personal Network
1000 thank's
Nice! I'm looking into a way of running a NAS on my proxmox system.
TrueNAS seems to be very heavy, maybe OMV will fit my needs better, and now I see this, what I do like.
Is it possible with turnkey fileserver to do a mirror of two drives and schedule backup copy tasks ?
Great video. I used this last year to set up a samba share on my proxmox system. I am upgrading my server storage and copied the root disk for the lxc container to a new drive using the Volumes Actions menu in the proxmox 7 GUI. That seemed to work but I don't know how to move the storage disk I originally created to the new drive. I tried using the volume action menu in the GUI to move the mount point but it seems to stall out. How would you move not only the fileserver root disk but the storage volumes to a new larger disk using the GUI in Proxmox 7?
Thanks for the great video. One question. I have one proxmox host (mirco PC) with raid 1 1tb nvme and 5tb ext disk for backups. All works fine. dont want a backup server but wonder whats the best option to backup samba share. I could do container backup each night but that would take up alot of space as its full not incremental. Any way to backup that to the 5TB USB drive economically ? Would just limiting the backup to retain 2 backups be a better option while still giving me backup. Only issue I see is restoring a file means a container restore ? Anything built into Turnkey FS or Samba that might be better ?
honestly I never knew that there is these extra turnkey lxc before. I used to download the proxmox helper scipt for all what I need
Excellent video. I have tried this and have successfully made the setup. However, when I tried to transfer files from Windows 10 to the samba share, there seems to be a limitation on the file size? I couldn't find anything in the help file regarding this.
Thank you
So torrent server is another thing I wanted and tk torrent server has this also built in so I removed the file server and replaced with torrent server.
And thank you for doing this quick video before I was getting weird issue don’t know why but everything works great now
I've never heard of TurnKey Linux before. Do each of the TurnKey's that you mentioned in the beginning. Do they all run in a container within Proxmox?
I have a mini pc with limited internal storage. I have Proxmox running and I would like to run Plex server in a container due to limited cores and memory. The only problem is that I can not figure out how to connect the Plex container to the External USB hard drive where all my movies are stored. This USB external drive is physically connected to the mini pc running Proxmox. Great videos by the way. I am a Proxmox newbie and any guidance is greatly appreciated.
Hey, new to proxmox and zfs and loving it and just came across these commands "zfs set sharesmb" and "zfs set sharenfs". Is there any advantage/disadvantage of using one of these as a fileserver vs how you setup yours in this video? Thanks for all your tutorials by the way, super helpful!!
Using a container like this gives you a web interface if you want to use that. Containers are also much easier to move between hosts if that’s something you want to do. If you want to setup a smb share on your host I’d generally recommend using the /etc/samba/smb.conf files as it gives you more options and seems to be better supported than the options on zfs.
Thanks for the tutorial video, I set one up and it's working. Similar to your setup, I set second disk as my file server share path that has capacity of 2TB. Does it have any samba share backup tools? What do you use to backup your samba shares on this turnkey file server?
For backing up these shares, I often mount them in another system and then backup the files on it like any other share. I like using software like borg as it allows for easy maintenance of earlier versions.
You could also backup the container with the Proxmox host, using PBS or vzdump backups.
Thanks, I'll give this a go at some point. I was thinking of using turenas but It looked like a massive security risk.
How?
👍thanks for a very informative and clear tutorial.
🙏can you help make a tutorial for the turnkey domain controller,
thank you
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll add this to my future video planning list.
Hey, this was amazing and I got it configured with ease. Just a question. Can we turn off or shutdown this file server and turn it on whenever we can? Because I have a low-range UPS and we have frequent power issues.
Yea you can shutdown the server whenever you want. Rebooting the file server won't cause any issues, but if you have file copies in progress those will be stopped in a potentially incomplete state.
@@ElectronicsWizardry I found this command "shutdown -h now" and was able to shutdown the server. It is working fine now. Thank you so much.
Hi Brandon, I've just found your channel and I'm liking the content. Nice, clear, and concise information and presentation.
I've been watching your TrueNAS, and Proxmox videos and if got me thinking... Have you considered doing a TKL File Server video similar to this one but where you create shares for existing ZFS Datasets in an Unprivileged TKL File Server LXC without changing the existing permissions on the Dataset?... In other words, mimicking the behaviour of a TrueNAS Share of a Dataset but with the added security of an Unprivileged LXC.
Thank for the idea. I haven’t thought of that way of storing data for TKL file share. I’ll do some testing of this idea soon.
@@ElectronicsWizardry Perhaps it's a bit of a backwards way of doing things for all I know. I'm a bit of a noob relatively speaking but when I switched my primary server from (what was then) FreeNAS, and I wanted to recreate my shares and the method I described seamed like the way to do it.
@@ElectronicsWizardry nice video brandon. Can you make comparison (feature,more detail) about Truenas vs Turnkey?
thanks
Is this only for local filesharing, or is it possible to use over WAN?
excellent video, clear and to the point, :D
This is for local sharing only. You can setup a VPN for external access. I plan on making a video in the future to go over external access of a NAS in more detail in the future.
If I wanted to have a samba share that I can copy isos etc to it is possible to see that share in proxmox so I can use the ISOs to create VMs ? Or do I just add the samba storage using add storage as it it was a seperate stanalone NAS device.
Interesting Video! I do have a question though: Is it possible to add a hard drive full of data (in my case my 10tb media drive) to a samba share without formatting it?
yes
great vid! any way to enable guest access for share?
If I'm already running turnkey for a portainer install, I can use the same vm to run a fileshare right?
Thank you this video was exactly what I needed after a few hours of banging my head. I have my windows filesharing working now with my Turnkey Linux Fileserver, but I want to now access it from another turnkey linux container. Do you have any guides or information on that?
You should be able to mount the share made by turnkey on another container by modifying fstab to mount the cifs share. Google mount cifs share fstab for some guide on how to mount the share on bootup. With contoers you will need to enable the mount cifs option in proxmox web ui to mount this share.
Rick, I have been looking for 3 days and nobody seems to have a tutorial for it even though you would think it'd be easy to find.
I built a proxmox PC.
I have 2, 18TB USB 3.0 external WD hard drives that I want to connect to the proxmox PC and just SHARE entirely to any VM or CT that wants to use it.
Is that so hard? Apparently it is because no guide exists.
All I want to do is use the external mass storage as a torrent seed and then use jellyfin or audiobookshelf to READ the files and populate my self hosted servers so I can, oh I don't know, LISTEN TO AUDIOBOOKS AND WATCH MOVIES?
It doesn't seem possible. I even set up this turnkey fileshare and once again, it's limited. It wants me to "create" storage - hi. What if I ALREADY HAVE storage but I just want all my VMs to be able to use it? I don't want to create 100GB storage like ElectronicsWizardry did in his video - I want to USE MY 18TB right now and I want to be able to read/write to it from any VM. You would think that's what a "server" is meant to do.
I cannot believe nobody on the planet but me wants to use a hard drive to both download torrents AND use those downloaded torrents to read, watch, or stream from any device and be untied or unlinked from any one specific VM or CT.
I don't even LIKE CTs right now because I can see the USB 18TB when I type lsblk but I can't seem to use it. I can just sit and stare at it in lsblk, and even if I COULD somehow mount it to that CT, that doesn't mean I'll be able to do anything with it on my audiobookshelf or Jellyfin VM.
3 days and nothing. This is just.......
I will give that a try@@ElectronicsWizardry . I thought I had done that and tried for longer than I'm happy to admit, but I'll see if I was just missing the checkbox in the container option.
Just found Your YT channel and it's awesome. I think I will try out TrueNAS Scale. Is there a way to run LXCs on it?
I don’t think truenas scale has a versions for lax in Proxmox. Yea t might be possible to create one but I haven’t tried to.
You can run container ON truenas scale, but truenas ON proxmox only as vm. If you have truenas, you dont really need turnkey.
Thank you ElectronicsWizardry for this video, is there any chance to add deduplication for this kind of setup?
I don't think Turnkey has support for dedup, but it can be done in Linux with other programs. If your using ZFS for the container, you can turn on dedup with ZFS in Proxmox. Beware that ZFS dedup is memory hungry, and typically only recommended when there are large amounts of duplicate files, with the RAM needed. There are programs to scan for duplicated files and take actions such as notifying a user, replacing the files with hardlinks, or use features of some filesystems to link the blocks under the hood.
The type of dedup that should be used depends on what filesystem is used, and what type of dedup you want to do(whole files or parts of files), and the performance impact/extra resources your willing to use.
My aim was to delete duplicate photos/videos which are stored under different folders (copied to FileServer from previous HDD backups). Could you point me to the right direction which commands, or maybe could you prepare short tutorial? Thanks in advance.
I'd take a look at czkawka. Its an app that can search for duplicates, and let you decide what copy to keep. Its also able to do fuzzy matching of photos/videos.
How do you enable broadcast of the shares over the network? I have both Wind and Mac PCs and would like the dil server to appear in the network without having to map an IP address on each machine.
that's what I was looking for. I've tried TrueNAS VM on Proxmox and HDD passthrough and it doesnt work well. U ran out of RAM very quickly and it crashes. On the other hand OMV runs perfect with RAID0. But I wanna tackle ZFS RAIDZ and share it over samba so that looks very promising. Thanks
if your performance sucks, remove tcp_options from the smb.conf, it conflicts with the default kernel tcp options. tcp_nodelay is on by default.
Great video..thanks...is there any way that we can share this like nextcloud. thanks
Thank you for the great video. I'm new in proxmox and i just have a question. I have a test setup with 2 hdd's. I made a setup for Turnkey Linux Fileserver (accordig to your tutorial) and it's working fine. I also want to setup Turnkey Linux Torrent server. My question is that i can use the same hdd also for srorage of downloaded files? Generally, how cam i use same srorage for multiple appliances?
You can use the same Hess for multiple containers by using multiple Mount points on the same storage. This will allow both containers to have separate places to store their data. If you want the data to be shared, I’d probably connect the torrent server to the network share from the file server and have it access files over its local network.
@@ElectronicsWizardry Thank you for your answer. The idea is to use a single SMB share to access all my data from different turnkey linux applications and this is what i don't know how to do it. I also plan to install media server, and i dont like the idea to copy the data.
@@ElectronicsWizardry i can add my shared folder to proxmox as storage, i can add this storage also to my torrent server container. The only problem is that torrent server has no write permission to this folder. I followed the instructions from proxmox manual to solve this, but without sucess. You have some advance regarding this issue?
Hello, I followed this vieoguide, and all works, but I wonder one thing, if I use for example truenas, and set up a smb share, I do get the computer name under network on my windows PC, so how do I set up this turnkey fileserver, to display the computer name / host name under the network on windows machines?