Paperless-ngx works grate in NS8 to upload files.
But how do I offer the paperlessngx-consume volume to the outer world to place documents inside ?
I tried to make it available by a nfs-server. But to mount the volume fails.
I don’t know the Paperless-ngx app features. I think @oneitonitram can help here.
Please share more details about the issue you’re trying to solve. There may be alternatives to NFS, which does not play well with containers.
Paperless-ngx has one standard folder ‘consume’ from which all documents are automatically taken over and archived. That’s quite handy if you mount this folder on to your PC. You can save documents scans right into this folder and paperless takes care of everythin else.
In the Nethserver app there is one of the volumes ‘paperlessngx-consume’, located in /home/paperlessngx1/local/share/containers/storage/volumes.
At best this ‘paperlessngx-consume’ should be externalised so that it can mounted from all over the network. From the actual location it cannot be mounted.
hello @rasi Will dig deep into this
but regarding this i am trying to see if one could impliment s3 in paperless so that it can we easy to access files from one central location
It makes me think about rclone that knows how to sync the local filesystem to remote destinations with many protocols, and vice-versa. We use it for NS8 backup destinations both as client and as server.
Yes, it can run also as a server for many protocols, including WebDAV, S3, and NFS! See rclone serve. An additional rclone container in the paperless-ngx app can make paperlessngx-consume volume accessible from the network.
As alternative approach, a Samba Share could be used as temporary dropbox to feed the app: we discussed this pattern for EcoDMS App ecoDMS: how to expose a folder as a network share when the node already runs the Samba AD module? - #4 by davidep
I know little about Podman, but I know from Docker that a volume can be “externalised”
like ‘ext-folder:folder in the container’. I wonder if that possibility does not exist in Podman.
Otherwise the external directory could be published through NFS.
@kemboielvis22 lets schedule the planned improvements for paperless for this weekend.