📁File Sharing

This is a tutorial to setup and use an NFS file share on a Proxmox server.

This tutorial only covers NFS but there are other file sharing methods like SSHFS, SMB, FTP.

Personnaly I chose NFS because it was the most performant option (see benchmarks below). Moreover, I use Tailscale for external access, so using SSHFS would have resulted in double encryption. Though SSHFS could be a good choice because it needs no server config, if you're interested in using SSHFS, the server can be any machine that has SSH server (and for windows clients, check out SSHFS-Win: Mount SSH Host as Network Drive).

NAS Performance: NFS vs. SMB vs. SSHFSJake’s Blog

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NFS Server

1. Create Privileged Cockpit LXC (during setup, say yes to 45drives plugin): https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=cockpit

2. Once you're logged it into Cockpit dashboard (https://192.168.1.90:9090/file-sharing), Create an NFS Share (don't create in on '/') (make sure the permissions are ok).

NFS Client

Windows NFS Client

1. Enable NFS Client on your Windows PC:

EASY WAY (Recommended)

Open an Admin Powershell and paste this in:

Write-Host "Enabling NFS client features..."
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName ServicesForNFS-ClientOnly, ClientForNFS-Infrastructure -NoRestart

$regPath = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ClientForNFS\CurrentVersion\Default'

nfsadmin client stop
Set-ItemProperty -Path $regPath -Name 'AnonymousUID' -Type DWord -Value 0
Set-ItemProperty -Path $regPath -Name 'AnonymousGID' -Type DWord -Value 0
nfsadmin client start
nfsadmin client localhost config fileaccess=755 SecFlavors=+sys -krb5 -krb5i

Write-Host "`nVerifying registry values..."
Get-ItemProperty -Path $regPath | Select-Object AnonymousUid, AnonymousGid

Write-Host "`nNFS client status:"
Get-Service -Name NfsClnt
Write-Host "`n✅ NFS client successfully enabled and configured."

EASY WAY 2

WORST WAY

1. Mount the network drive automatically, press Win+R then shell:startup

2. Create a .bat file with

@echo off
mount -o anon \\192.168.1.90\YOUR\PATH V:

1. You can now either reboot or double click the .bat file to mount the NFS Network Drive.

Linux NFS Client

1. Install NFS package

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nfs-common

Arch Linux/Manjaro

Fedora/CentOS/RHEL

1. Créez votre point de montage

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/nfs_share

1. Ouvrez le fichier /etc/fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

1. Ajoutez la ligne suivante à la fin du fichier, en remplaçant l'adresse IP et les chemins :

192.168.1.90:/srv/nfs_share /mnt/nfs_share nfs defaults,noatime,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10 0 0

1. Testez le montage sans redémarrer :

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo mount -a