No problem, as far as I can understand that is the easiest solution I don’t see the problem with privileged containers if they are local in your network. I think I will test with NFS instead of smb/cifs and check the user access as @gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world mentioned above.

This makes sense, I’ll investigate this when I’m back home.

There is no reason as far as I learn more this was probably not the best way to set it up but I was just following guides to learn. The goal in the future is to build a bigger storage server and run something like TrueNas. I will look into NFS3 though it could solve some of my problems with the current setup.

I can ping the fileserver and reach I can map the drive from calibre for example but it does not have write persmissions.

Maybe I am mounting incorrectly I mounted with mount -t cifs username=username \\fileserverIP\folder \mnt\smb_share

This works for 1 of my lxc that is privileged but does not work the unprivileged ones

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