Paperless NGX and Samba Share

[eschie22]

Hello everybody,
i just get in touch with this great Repository and made my first steps with the Paperless NGX Installation. until now it works great and all is accessible.
Unfortunately the problems began when I tried to import my samba share as consume- and working directory.
What i have done:

• Created a samba Share in Open Media Vault on my "NAS" called Paperless
• import that Paperless share into Proxmox at /mnt/Paperless with Flags ,uid=100000,gid=100000,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 (so it could be read by the root User of paperless container
• mounted that share into the paperless Container:with line "mp0: /mnt/Paperless,mp=/mnt/Paperless"
• checked, if root has permission
• customize the paperless.conf file to following lines:
  PAPERLESS_CONSUMPTION_DIR=/mtn/Paperless/consume
  PAPERLESS_DATA_DIR=/mnt/Paperless/data
  #PAPERLESS_EMPTY_TRASH_DIR=
  PAPERLESS_MEDIA_ROOT=/mnt/Paperless/media
  PAPERLESS_STATICDIR=/mnt/Paperless/static
• Restart Container

unfortunately with the command "systemctl status paperless-consumer.service" i get following error:
× paperless-consumer.service - Paperless consumer
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/paperless-consumer.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2025-06-20 10:17:51 CEST; 4min 49s ago
Duration: 2.218s
Process: 123 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 2 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 386 ExecStart=python3 manage.py document_consumer (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 386 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 1.802s

Jun 20 10:17:47 paperless-ngx systemd[1]: Starting paperless-consumer.service - Paperless consumer...
Jun 20 10:17:49 paperless-ngx systemd[1]: Started paperless-consumer.service - Paperless consumer.
Jun 20 10:17:51 paperless-ngx python3[386]: SystemCheckError: System check identified some issues:
Jun 20 10:17:51 paperless-ngx python3[386]: ERRORS:
Jun 20 10:17:51 paperless-ngx python3[386]: ?: PAPERLESS_CONSUMPTION_DIR is set but doesn't exist.
Jun 20 10:17:51 paperless-ngx python3[386]: HINT: Create a directory at /mtn/Paperless/consume
Jun 20 10:17:51 paperless-ngx systemd[1]: paperless-consumer.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 20 10:17:51 paperless-ngx systemd[1]: paperless-consumer.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 20 10:17:51 paperless-ngx systemd[1]: paperless-consumer.service: Consumed 1.802s CPU time.

i tried a little bit back and forward: it seems, that the folders media and data are accepted by paperless. Only consume wouldnt be.
Is there a dedicated User for all the Paperless Processes? so i have to switch the access to the samba share?
Can you help me?

[EddieFAF]

I guess you just got a spelling error in your config. You should use /mnt/Paperless/consume instead of /mtn/Paperless/consume

[eschie22]

Yep thank you
Fixed the problem. Sorry to bother you