Hello all,

I have found myself in an odd spot and use case and I started wondering if UNRaid does this.

I have been here for many years and my unraid box is cluttered with dockers and have grown weary of a single docker running away screwing with everything else. Thus I have started exploring offloading some of these dockers to other hardware.

Problem is that they would still need access to the UNRaid SMB shares. Currently I installed ZimaOS on a trial basis and after 7 days, the SMB share went dark and after a reboot the share was completely gone.

Which got me thinking. Could UNRaid do that? It's not something that I have considered before but I suspect that it can. Just havent seen it mentioned or asked before.

Thoughts?

someone?

I have been using SMB and Unraid for many years now and I have never seen access to shares just disappearing from it.

On 12/14/2025 at 11:52 AM, mathomas3 said:

the SMB share went dark and after a reboot the share was completely gone.

What exactly do you mean 'the share went dark' and where was this share? What did you reboot (Unraid or ZimaOS)? And what does the share was completely 'gone' mean? If you are talking about Unraid, are the files still on the array or pool? Where is this ZimaOS installed?

The array is hosted on unraid. Zima is trying to access it via SMB.

UNRaid is doing it's thing... always there and protected... it's zima that dropped the connection after 7 days and after I rebooted it, it forgot about the share(I have posted this question to them as well)

I am not getting much from them...

So that leaves unraid as a valid option, but I have not heard/seen a way for unraid to access a smb share and have it accessable to a docker... Thoughts?

Docker can access the Unraid array directly through a mapping from the Docker container path variable to actual file system location ( /mnt/user/Share_Name ) used by Unraid. The user, group and permissions for access to the actual Unraid share are the subject of this post:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/188600-share-permissions-changed-to-owner-99/#comment-1540351

You must use these permissions if you want to assure that other Share Access users can access the files written by your Docker container.

You are not forced to access the Unraid shares through SMB from a Docker. BUT I am not a Guru on setting up Docker containers to do this. You should probably be asking this question in the support forum for the Docker container. You should be able to find the support forum for each docker on the APPS page. (I, personally, would always choose a container that has a support thread on this forum. That way you would be expect that the container has be tested using Unraid.)

Edited December 15, 2025Dec 15 by Frank1940