Jeremy Swanborough jeremyswann

Proxmox LXC ⇆ CIFS Mount Wizard

proxmox-lxc-cifs-share.sh is an interactive helper that mounts a network CIFS/SMB share on a Proxmox VE node and bind-mounts it into one or more unprivileged LXC containers in one pass.
It automates:

Creating a host-side mountpoint under /mnt/lxc_shares/<folder>.
Writing a properly-tuned /etc/fstab entry (systemd.automount, uid/gid mapping, etc.).
Mounting the share immediately.
Injecting the bind-mount (mpX:) into the live LXC configuration with pct set.
Stopping and restarting each container to apply the mount.

Requirements:

⚠️ Only FRESH and CLEAN instances are supported. Ubuntu 22.04 (Minimal) images ONLY ⚠️

⚠️ Also you NEED to temporarily open the connection to the 1022 port in Security List / Ingress Rules for your VCN ⚠️

⚠️ After transformation YOU get a clean Debian 12 instance. All other data will be lost. ⚠️

The tmpfs partition is limited to 700m for x86_64 (free tier) compatibility.

How to setup a minimal X11 environment on Debian GNU/Linux

Install the following packages
- xserver-xorg-core (server)
- xserver-xorg-video-XXX (video driver, XXX depends on your hardware)
- xserver-xorg-input-XXX (input device driver, XXX depends on your hardware. evdev works well for most cases)
- x11-xserver-utils (xmodmap, xrandr)
- x11-xkb-utils (setxkbmap)

x11-utils (xdpyinfo, xev, xkill, xprop, xwininfo)

Using Cygwin X as a display for a Linux VM without SSH overhead

This is primarily for my own record and knowledge. If it helps you, great! If it breaks something, don't say I didn't warn you - this is just documentation of what I did to get this to work at the time I wrote this on one particular machine.

Environment

I have a 64-bit cygwin install in c:\cygwin64 (possible in 32-bit too, I just messed up that install and it no longer works, so these were tested on my machine in a 64-bit install). I use my Cygwin setup scripts to simplify this part.
I'm using VirtualBox on Windows 8.1.
- Importantly (at least for VirtualBox), I added a "host-only networking" adapter for communication between the guest (VM) and host machine - this seems to be required.
Totally optional but useful part of my setup: I'm using VBoxHeadlessTray to be able to easily have my virtual machine running without taking

	nmcli con add con-name WiFi ifname wlan0 type wifi ssid foonet
	nmcli con modify WiFi wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk
	nmcli con modify WiFi wifi-sec.psk myownpassword
	nmcli con up WiFi

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