Hmm I’m sorry to hear that I have build the above setup (without proxmox) in a hyper-v vm on my own PC and I did get it working with SMB and it seems to be running pretty well
Maybe I’ll mount the share directly to the container and connect it through there aswell. I’m not too sure yet
I have seen and read in other posts about these *arr applications, maybe I should look into it some more
I have never before used a VPN to download torrents, so I was not planning on starting that now really as I have had no issues whatsoever with the government or ISP, and here they first send you a warning and maybe then I was thinking about using a VPN. As far as I know VPN’s cost money and the whole reason I’m building this machine is to steer clear from ‘subscriptions’ and external servers so that I have everything in my own control and free of charge (or at least only hardware and energy payments)
Is there another reason for the need of VPN?
I built it in a VM on my home PC to try it all out now
I made a truenas user ‘nextcloud’ with a password
Shared a folder over SMB and gave the user permission to it
Used the ‘external storage’ plugin in NextCloud to add the SMB share with the ‘nextcloud’ user and then gave the ‘family’ nextcloud group access to this folder
Where exactly are you getting stuck? Maybe I could give a more detailed explanation