From Wikipedia; A proxy server that appears to any client to be an ordinary web server, but in reality merely acts as an intermediary that forwards the client's requests to one or more ordinary web servers. In other words, it is like a man in the middle that redirects traffic. The most common case is for visiting severs for a name or fully qualified domain name (FQDN), like www.enchilada.lan, instead of the ip of the server (e.g. 192.168.1.25). ...
This comes directly from the archwiki, due to I got tired of mount the nas shares using dolphin (or similar) and have to go to the /run/media.... path everytime, or by manually running: 1 mount --mkdir -t cifs //SERVER/sharename /mnt/mountpoint -o username=username,password=password,workgroup=workgroup,iocharset=utf8,uid=username,gid=group Instead, I will just manually run: 1 systemctl start mnt-nas.mount Or enable it to mount it automatically during boot and to unmount I just have to stop the service. ...
Since I installed Proxmox for my small home server, I struggled a bit with nas shares due to user ownership and permissions, but after searching a bit I encountered a tutorial (I can remember where) to do it easily. So, before I forget it I will write here how I nailed it. It works to share a mountpoint from Proxmox to the LXCs, so if you have an ssd/hdd in that directory, it will share the whole disk. ...