new to BalenaOS, trying to mount CIFS

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Good morning all,

I just installed balenaOS (production) on a RPI4 and was trying to create a mount point on the host OS to connect to a SMB share I have on my network to make it available to my containers.

I tried using the terminal and the entire filesystem appears to be readonly so I can’t create directories or even modify /etc/fstab

Is this intended behavior or have I missed a step someplace?

Anyone else have experience doing this?

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Hey Pat welcome to the forums o/

on balenaOS you run all things in containers, if you’re familiar with container linux by coreos it’s basically the same idea.

For your use case have a look at https://github.com/janvda/balena-samba-rsync/blob/master/samba-rsync/Dockerfile.template