Use SMB shares for storing uploaded/converted files

[illuminati05]

Describe the feature you'd like
A possibilty to change the working directories in the settings.py from local directories to SMB shares
My SMB shares are huge 32TB. And my xcp-ng VM machines has only 10GB with Ubuntu Server. I want to keep the VM at small size, because of backups.

The reason: I have already a big amount of videos,photos and so on. When i upload these files to mediacms i have them on the VM and on my TRUENAS storage.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context
I tried to mount SMB shares under /media/"FOLDER" with success, but in the settings.py i dont know which entries must be modified to use the SMB shares for (video decoding/MEDIA_ROOT)

[mgogoulos]

mediacms_files is what interests you, that's the directory that holds all media (original and encoded/transcoded versions).
If you can mount it as a disk/filesystem/partition, this will work for you.
So something like this would work I assume (haven't tried it with SMB but have tried with mounting a different disk on mediacms_files):

a. install mediacms somewhere, eg /home/user/mediacms
b. mount SMB share on /home/user/mediacms/mediacms_files
c. now when you upload something it goes there. If you unmount the SMB share it won't be available (because it 'lives' on the SMB share)

Hope this helps

[LianhuanJ]

Might the path mediacms_files mentioned above be media_files ? which is misleading

[supraxd2021]

how to mount?

[illuminati05]

So i have to create all the subfolders like on the local folder? Or will they be created automatically after encoding?
Edit the fstab file and make a link for the "media_files" to "//server/share/"?

[mgogoulos]

they will be created automatically! But mediacms should have the permissions to write there!

[marcofloriano]

b. mount SMB share on /home/user/mediacms/mediacms_files

Could you please give some example/tutorial on how to do that on Ubuntu 20 ? Thanks

[Nanodk]

Sorry to hi-jack and rebump this tread, but I'm also struggling to get this to work.

Full access to network share (SMB on TrueNAS) have copyed all from media_files to same share. can't upload, but viewing is working.

When I try to upload it show x% and then retrying 2 times and fail.

my Fstab line:
//path/to/Media/mediacms /home/mediacms.io/mediacms/m_files cifs guest,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,credentials=/home/mediacms.io/smbcredentials.cfg

[Nanodk]

Neverminde, made at NFS share, mounted it as medie_files, made www-data RW on it and auto mount white fstab, works now :)

[xansone]

Neverminde, made at NFS share, mounted it as medie_files, made www-data RW on it and auto mount white fstab, works now :)

Hey, would you be so kind and explain excatly how did you do it? :) I have permission problem, excatly like you :)