A Proxmox NAS setup raises a login-management problem
A new Dell R740xd is being rebuilt from scratch to replace an older R730 setup. The machine has two HBA330 controllers: one for Proxmox boot and storage, and one planned for the NAS side through . The old setup mounted a ZFS dataset inside an LXC container and used Samba there for file sharing, but that design no longer feels right.
A TrueNAS is being considered for the new file storage setup. The concern is that TrueNAS may not fully support OIDC and LDAP-based user management for users and share permissions, or may reserve some of that for its enterprise edition. The goal is to centralize logins across services with LLDAP and Keycloak.
The focus is file shares, disk management, and monitoring, not running apps or inside the NAS system.
Key points
- The plan separates Proxmox storage from NAS storage on a new R740xd server.
- The NAS disks would be handed directly to a using .
- The previous setup used a ZFS dataset mounted into an LXC container with Samba for sharing.
- TrueNAS is being considered, but OIDC and LDAP support may not fit the desired login setup.
- The priority is file sharing, disk management, and monitoring, not NAS-hosted apps.