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From Proxmox GUI:

expand node
choose the “local” drive
choose CT TEMPLATE
click TEMPLATES
select the latest DEBIAN (ie: debian 13 standard) and download
still in “local” drive, click CREATE CT
put a hostname (ie: samba-lxc)
put password
under TEMPLATE, choose the DEBIAN that was downloaded
under DISKS, select “local-lvm” as storage drive
give disk size (if possible 10GB or more)
under CPU, give 1 cores
under MEMORY give 256 / 256
under NETWORK, select DHCP or specify STATIC IP

Once the container show up, select it and change features (under OPTIONS):

Nesting: checked
START AT BOOT: checked

Start the container

Once started, do the following from console:

apt update
apt install samba -y

after install, no shared setup yet, have to do nano /etc/samba/smb.conf**

Enable SSH:

# 1. Ensure the SSH server is installed
apt update && apt install openssh-server -y
sed -i 's/#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password/PermitRootLogin yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
systemctl restart ssh

The DHCP IP address, check the IP from the NETWORK of the node