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I wish they would quit playing with their file structure.

I would put a loop in it so that it would try say three times, waiting 60 seconds between tries, before it stops/starts plex. This way just in case it is busy and misses the first attempt or even the second.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html

Also, if you have any other linux based system, ie a router or other device, make sure the master browser is not enabled on it also. Only one linux device should have master browser turned on or so I've read, and experienced. When I tried to enable the master browser feature in my router, I had all kinds of issues.

Make sure they are in the same workgroup.

@rsokoloff These are the steps I would take: 1. Shutdown the server gracefully. 2. Pull the USB and make a copy of all the contents on your pc hardrive. Use a utility such as terra copy or other utility to verify with checksums a good backup. 3. Get rid of all traces of "Simple Features" if you have it installed. How to remove SF http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30939.msg342721#msg342721 4. Copy the bzimage and bzroot files to the USB drive after first deleting originals 5. Run the make bootable bat file. If on a later version of windows, make sure to run as administrator. 6. Power up the server. If it will not bootup, do the next steps 6. Power the server down and place the USB drive on you main PC. 7. Delete all of the contents from the flash drive 8. Copy the complete new unraid contents to the flash drive 9. Copy over the key file that you backed up in step 2. 10. Run the make bootable bat file as administrator. 11. Eject the USB stick from the PC and place it back in the unraid server and boot it up. 12. Assuming it boots successfully, shut it back down. If it does not boot, you have other issues that you need to trouble shoot. 13. Move the USB drive back to the main PC. 14. Rename the "config" directory of of the USB drive to org_config". 15. Copy the "config" directory you backed up in step 2 to the USB stick. 16. Copy the "plugins" directory in the config directory on the usb stick of "org_plugins". 17. Open the "plugins" directory in the config directory on the usb stick and delete everything in the directory. 18. Run the make bootable bat file as administrator. 19. Eject the USB stick from the PC and place it back in the unraid server. 20. Try and boot your server. 21. Assuming it boots, then one of your pluggins may be causing a conflict. You will need to add them one at a time until you find the problem pluggin. Also, are you doing any thing unique in your go file?

Mine took ~72 hours to complete full cycle.

I had the same basic problem originally. Mine turned out to be my CPU tuning. When you have a download and video playing, run "watch -n .5 grep \"cpu MHz\" /proc/cpuinfo" from the command line and watch your CPU speeds as it starts unpacking and as it is unpacking. Change it from .5 to .1 to speed up the check. Use cntrl-c to exit. Even though I had activity, the CPUs were never ramping up from the lower speed settings and staying ramped up. I used the following tuning options to tweak my CPU. Not saying you have the same issue, but it sounds like it. echo -n 35 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_down_factor echo -n 45 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold This is the full section of code I run at bootup Note, I run before and after commands a lot of times to capture the data in syslog during the bootup. # From http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25127.msg218295#msg218295 # More info https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU_frequency_scaling # modprobe acpi-cpufreq modprobe cpufreq_ondemand # To verify the sampling down factor after changes cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_down_factor # echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor # # echo -n 35 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_down_factor echo -n 45 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold # To verify the sampling down factor after changes cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_down_factor # # # To monitor cpu speed in real time, run in command window: # watch grep \"cpu MHz\" /proc/cpuinfo # ^C to exit Modification: To show the available governors you can use. sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors More info here, its old, but good. http://www.pantz.org/software/cpufreq/usingcpufreqonlinux.html

Mine kicked off and ran the monthly parity check with no issues. I can say for sure if the drive was spun up or not when the parity check kicked off. I can say that my spin-down timer is enabled and set for one hour. I have not seen any issues other than the parity check slowdown that occurred when I migrated to the first 6TB drive.

Paint.net is also a good free utility for windows. http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

If it works for you, no reason at all though you may want to upgrade to 5.0.6. I stayed on RC8 till just after 5.05 was available. I would stay away from the R6 for now until they at least transition to the RC builds. If you decide to upgrade, power down your server and make a copy of all the files of your USB stick to your computer as a backup. This way you have a snapshot of your server now. You should do this even if you don't upgrade it. its a straight forward upgrade. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the release notes. If you are currently running unRAID Server OS release 5.0.x ----------------------------------------------------------- - Starting with release 5.0.4, a new script called 'make_bootable_mac' is included in the zip file. In addition, a new directory called 'syslinux' has been created to contain all of the syslinux-specific files. If all you are doing is upgrading from a previous 5.0.x release, you only need to copy 'bzimage', 'bzroot', and 'readme.txt' from the release zip file to your Flash and then reboot your server - this will still work. You can also copy 'memtest' if you want the new version. Alternately, you may set up your flash the same as in the zip file. Probably the easiest way to accomplish this is to back up your 'config' directory and then install this release according to "Installation on a New Flash Device" below. Before ejecting your flash, restore the 'config' directory from your back up.

@S80_UK The OP has not defined the usage other than five users. Five accounts are no problem, five simultaneous active tunnels I'm not so sure of. It might, it has a powerful processor. @Lappen No matter which version you use, it would help to read over the OpenVpn documentation to understand whats going on. For example you probably want to change your home IP sub-net to a unique solution from the standard 192.168.x.y. X typically = 1 or 0. My sons home sub-net is the same as mine and I have to remember to turn off my WiFi on my phone if I want to open a VPN connection back to my house when I'm there. It also has all the options explained. For example, my server is configured to force my phone to send all of the internet traffic through the tunnel when the VPN is activated. Another thing to consider is your internet uplink speed. Hopefully you are have a good uplink speed. Also, you might have to enable some form of QoS in your router to keep the the VPN traffic from killing your normal internet activity. I'm not saying don't use it, just that when you turn it on, it has the capability of impacting other areas of your network traffic that you need to be aware off.

Also, you may want to read through the OpenVPN documentation. Particularly https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html. Defiantly the section "Numbering private subnets". This can cause you a lot of grief getting it to work.

If you need up to 5 simultaneous users, then you need some CPU power. Your typical home router cannot support that. Five users yes, simultaneous users no. peter_sm put together and maintains unraid client and server plugins. Here is the link to the server post. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28557.0

It depends on what the end objective is. If you just want to play media files, you could install plexserver and use that. If you want to a access the shares for other reasons or use a different media streamer, then yes you need a VPN solution. You could install/use a VPN server directly on your router, depending on your router, or use the OpenVPN plugin for unraid as a solution. I personally run OpenVPN on my router. A lot of router claim to have VPN support but only support PPTP as the VPN. I would not use PPTP as a vpn solution.

@Brucey7, Did you stress them with preclears before you put them in your system.

I completed the parity check with no errors. I have migrated all the data from the three 1.5TB to the to the new 6TB and rebuilt the array without the drives. I am in the process of rebuilding parity now. After about 3-4 minutes it jumped from ~50MB/s to ~110MB/s. @Traxxus Not trying to hijack your thread, just trying to keep the data about the 6TB reds together as they are so new.

Either the WD Red or HGST Deskstar NAS should be ok. The Seagate Surveillance and WD Purple have a different use case so I would not use them in a typical unRAID application. That is my opinion.

Lets take a step back. Exactly what are you trying to do. I am under the impression that it is to access the AP9617 and set a fixed IP. To do that, you need a temporary arp entry mapping the mac address to an IP. Then using the IP you can access it via the telnet or web I/F to configure it. Is this correct? What device are you entering the arp commands into that you keep getting these bash errors? Is it your unraid server? What OS/Version does the computer you use in normal day to day web browsing, checking email etc have? The original error in your first posting you received implies it may be a privilege issue is the way I read it. The example I poster earlier was configured for windows as I stated. The fact that you are getting a bash errors says you are on a system using some form of *nix. I am going to guess that you have an apple. I am not a *nix or mac user, but give this a try. Or change you user level using the SU command then enter arp command. sudo arp -s 192.168.1.81 00:c0:b7:cb:0e:e8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: https://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/51/20120908/manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1173/en_US/IntroCommandLine_v10.6.pdf Commands Requiring Root or Administrator Privileges Many commands used to manage a server must be executed by an administrator user or the root user. For example, entering: server:~ mariah$ shutdown gives you the following error: shutdown: NOT super-user This is because the shutdown command can be run only by the root user or by an administrative user with special privileges. To run commands in this "super user” mode, use the sudo command. sudo stands for “super user do.” The following command does work, (so don’t run it unless you really want to restart your computer): server:~ mariah$ sudo shutdown You’ll be prompted for the password of the currently logged in user. Only users that you have designated as admin users are able to execute commands with sudo . If you’re logged in as a user who isn’t an admin user, you can change “substitute users” by typing su adminUsername , where adminUsername is the name of a user in the Admin group. After you enter that user’s password, a new shell is launched from the existing shell, as that user. If a command requires it, you can use su to log in as the root user. Under normal circumstances you don’t need to use the root user account. If you do su to the root user, be especially careful, as you have sufficient privileges to make changes that can cause your server to stop working. For more information about the sudo and su commands, see their man pages.

What router are you using? Is it stock firmware. if not what 3rd party are you running. Assuming you are running a windows based PC. Open a command prompt as administrator. In the command window enter: arp -s 192.168.1.81 00-c0-b7-cb-0e-e8 then arp -a and you should see the entry listed. You should then be able to reach the card. Modified to fix the IP address.

In the example you linked, they are adding a static arp enrty to associate the MAC address of the card to a IP address. They then use that IP to access the card. What exactly is your problem? Are you having issues creating the arp entry? Depending on your router, you may be able to define it there so it is always mapped. Update: You would define this arp entry on the PC you want to use to access the card to do the setup, typically it would not be your unRAID server. If you can reach the card, and you get the error when try and set its IP address, then I do not have a clue as to the issue.

On Phazes pluggin, it is the "Config / Library directory:" setting. set the "Show storage memory usage:" option as "NO". Read the notes on the first post where you download the plugin from.

I would use the Phazes version. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=33341.0 I sounds like your config directory is being stored in the ram drive.

That is not my issue. Before I upgraded my parity from 4TB to 6TB, when the parity check first kicked off, it would be in the 100-110MB/s range and slow down as it progressed as expected. After I upgrade the parity to 6TB and placed the previous parity into the array my initial speeds dropped to high 60/low 70 Mb/s speed with no other changes. The initial speed should not have changed. One of my instructors years ago had a good statement. It was working before you touched it, you touched it, now it s not working correctly. It was probably something you did. So either one, or more, of my 1.5TB drives picked that time to start having problems or something else is at play. I ultimately wanted to get rid of the 1.5TB, so I will probably migrate all of the data over and remove them from the system and see if that helps.

@davephan, You also need to make sure your current drive controllers support larger than 2TB drives.