Proxmox CIFS Network Storage Error “create storage failed: error with cfs lock ‘file-storage_cfg’: mkdir /mnt/pve/network-storage-backups/snippets: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm line 1027. (500)”
Samba needs to be configured (at the share location) to allow the user that you are connecting with to actually connect. In Linux you can create a Linux user and grant that user samba access. The samba password can be different than the Linux account password. Before you can add a samba password to this user you must have created a Linux user. If you already have a Linux user then you can just add that user to samba. Ensure you have your "smbpasswd -a" set for the user. This would be something like "sudo smbpasswd -a joe". Enter the samba password that you want to add for this Linux user. On the Proxmox storage setup screen you enter the samba password instead of the Linux user's password unless they…