Ubuntu. Many will disagree but, Debian flavors are a way smoother experience from the start and Ubuntu has a ton of community support. You’ll rarely find an issue no one found and solved before you.

Im not saying Zuck is good or a savior of choice, but now would be a good time for facebook investors to pressure him to eat that difference.

Not that he should, but hes been all in on Open Source* lately

*Massive stipulations apply.

Okay, the permission error is almost certainly because the Samba process inside the container doesn’t have the right Linux permissions for the host directory /mnt/my_ext_hdd/my_dir/my_subdir.

On your server running docker, find the numeric UID and GID for that directory: ls -ln /mnt/my_ext_hdd/my_dir/my_subdir

you likely need to set PUID=<uid_from_step_1> and PGID=<gid_from_step_1> in the environment: section of your docker-compose.yml file for the Samba service.

Recreate the container (docker compose up -d --force-recreate).

WARNING: This assumes you are only accessing Samba from within your secure local network. Never expose Samba directly to the internet. Doing so is a major security risk and makes you a target for attacks.

You’re running into that permission error because of how Docker handles file permissions between the host and the container. It’s by design for security reasons. The user inside the container likely doesn’t have access to the mounted directory unless the UID and GID match what’s on the host. You can work around it, but it’s locked down intentionally.

Also, what’s the use case here? What do you need file sharing via Samba in a Docker container for? If it’s just about moving files in and out, docker cp or docker exec -it container /bin/bash might be easier.

So, this question is very difficult to answer. I don’t want you to be discouraged though.

I can’t answer you because I don’t know your goals. Since we’re in /c/selfhosted, I assume you’re experimenting with some self-hosted setups, which is awesome! But what exactly are you hoping to do with OpenWRT? And what’s the plan for the switch? Are you aiming for better network control, VLANs, firewall rules, or are you just looking to have network area storage?

If you can share more about what you’re trying to accomplish, folks here will be much better equipped to help you figure out your next steps.

If you’ll be running Linux and trying to use steam to run games, at all, avoid the 14th gen is.

If not, the 14th gen i9 is your bet.

Something with Proton, the layer that makes steam work with Linux, has been causing tons of people a lot of grief myself included. Any games that rely heavily on vulkan shaders will cause my whole system to crash under heavy load. It’s a known thing and Intel still seems clueless as to what to do to resolve it, afaik.

Auth portal for VPN tunnell -> Authelia -> fail2ban -> VLAN with services only.

ELK stack monitors the LAN. (Including VLAN)

Keep that VLAN segmented. You’re good unless you’re a DOGE employee, then I’d recommend quite a bit more security.

When you see a pets.ai that will talk to your let’s, you know we’ve reached .com level saturation.

Oh, dammit.

How’s your… Your…

Hmm…Too soon for menopause jokes unless you were in or beyond college for those references…

Hows that… Nostalgia for things not sucking treating you??

Hah! Got her.

It’s frustrating because yes, online, this is true.

But you take my liberal parents whose gospel is MSNBC, and they cringe when I bring up that it is a genocide.

The way these old fucks collect voting demographics reflects the people who vote – old people.

I guess I’m saying is I know why she didn’t. Because dumb fuck boomers running her campaign told her it was their best bet because historically young people don’t vote and old people do.

I’m jaded. I might officially be jaded.

How are you knees/hairline?

😎

Oligarchy.

We’re no better than Russia.

By design.

We lost the cold war folks.

Yellow 5.

Rumors of it killing sperm back in the days of Surge.

Can’t afford a phone?

No discount for you!!

This is a discriminatory practice, and it’s been going on for way too long. Every offender needs to be fined wildly for this shit.

“Yeah Tyler, you can get some free fries with your Big Mac that you’re buying with your dad’s credit card, because you have 100 mcpoints!”

Homeless man: please let me eat anything I am starving

RIGHT IN THE NICK OF TIME

WAY TO GO YOU SAVED THE DAY

Holy hilarious, I hope the village people weren’t needing residuals for a comfy retirement.

This will be the last time they make money, I’d imagine.

This is short sighted.

Hungry folks’ anger knows no limits. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Targeting the growing homeless population. Don’t let it confuse you for anything else.

Scams? In LA?

WELL, Not if you buy my scam insurance. $5 a month.

Sounds awfully woke