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2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:
Going to Unraid GUI you land on either the dashboard or main page, which both have most of the useful information you need about your server without having to dig through things, not just an empty useless "desktop" or list of icons.
Sure changing settings needs going to the right place, but the everyday stuff is all at a glance right there straight away.
If you don't like it... don't use it, you have enough other options.
This is a forum to offer suggestions for improvement, so your statement.."if you don't like it..don't use it" is inappropriate at best. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and to offer suggestions. That doesn't give you the right to cut down another person. But like I said when I posted this, I knew some people here can't handle new ideas and the daggers would be thrown.
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39 minutes ago, Kilrah said:
And as you listed yourself you have plenty of options if that's what you want. Leave something to those who are not after that, not everything in the world has to be the same.
The screenshots you posted show the whole "problem"... you're not getting anywhere useful before having gone through 2 pointless pages that are only there for cosmetics.
Really...? And how many pages are in the unRAID UI? A lot more than 2!. Your point makes no sense. And I don't need to be a Linux guru to use it!
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10 hours ago, Kilrah said:
If you prefer those, use them.
These modern UIs "look cool" but are terribly inefficient at actually providing information... no thanks.
I prefer an UI that takes a few hours to "get" initially but then will be more efficient for all the years I'll be using the product, than something that's more straightforward initially but will make me lose time forever onwards.
Ok, but that is your opinion. I think the existing Unraid UI is far more inefficient and outdated. We live in the highly visual world of the 21st century, not some archaic text driven UI scheme of the 80's and 90's...and yes, that is also just my opinion.
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1 hour ago, dnLL said:
As someone who has never used the alternatives you mention, what it is about the Unraid UI that you don't like?
Personally, I think the settings/tools pages could be improved, some stuff I never remember whether it's a tool or a setting (it's not always obvious) and the categories within both pages are not really helping The docker and VM pages are pretty good IMO. The dashboard is a lot better now as well.
I guess the overall theme could be changed completely to a more traditional and modern vertical menu with a separate mobile UI (or dedicated official app) but that doesn't bother me too much.
Well, as a Windows user, I am very use to navigating the UI and accessing my applications via icons. Here are some screenshots of the Synology UI (called DSM).
Everything in DSM is very easily accessible and I don't have to guess were things are. For a Windows user, I think it is much more easy to navigate. Also, it is so much simpler to install apps and just get around. I feel that the current UNRAID UI is outdated, but I guess it appeals more to people coming from a Linux background.
Thats ok.. to each his own.
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I know I will probably get a lot of flack/hate mail for this, but...
How about a completely redesigned UI that is a lot easier to use! I am thinking something similar to Synology's DSM, or QNAP, QUTS Hero.
Ok, throw your daggers!
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Just updated the UD plugin. The problem is now fixed. I can access my external drive from my windows 10 PC. Thank you.
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4 hours ago, dlandon said:
Fixed in the next release of UD.
Is this what is causing me to not be able to connect to the drive on my windows PC? (The drive is physically connected to my Unraid server via USB, but I need to be able to connect to it remotely via my windows PC).
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4 hours ago, dlandon said:
How are the drives connected? Post diagnostics and a screen shot of the UD page.
Drive is attached via USB. Diagnostics and screenshot of UD page is attached...
phoenix-diagnostics-20230319-2307.zip
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57 minutes ago, dlandon said:
Click on the three gears icon and set the "Share" switch on. That will share the device with the permissions you set in UD Settings,
It is on, even though the menu that appears when I hover over the Gears says it is off...
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I just noticed that even though the Share setting is turned on, when I click on the Cog wheel, the share reads "No".
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2 hours ago, dlandon said:
Have you also set the drive to share?
Not sure what you mean. The drive is being shared in Unraid as you can see in the images I attached earlier. If you are talking about setting the share permissions in the Windows machine, I cannot, as the drive doesn't show in the Windows PC.
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9 minutes ago, SimonF said:
Have you enabled sharing in UD of the device via the cog and then slider in options?
Yes, sharing is enabled...
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22 hours ago, Erich said:
I have an external drive plugged into my Unraid server. However, the external drive does not show up in my Network connections in windows. If I try to connect to the external drive (named "Ext_Disk") from a windows 10 machine, I get an error message saying that Windows cannot access or find this location. I am trying to connect by using "\\Phoenix\Ext_Disk".
In Unraid, I have tried setting "Enable SMB Security?" to Yes and/or Private, but it still is not working.The external drive is mounted and I do see my Unraid server, "Phoenix" on the Windows 10 machine and can access all of its shares, just not the external, unassigned hard drive.
How can I connect to the external drive on Unraid from my Windows 10 machine?phoenix-diagnostics-20230318-1111.zip 132.92 kB · 0 downloads
Is there anyone who can help me with this?
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I have an external drive plugged into my Unraid server. However, the external drive does not show up in my Network connections in windows. If I try to connect to the external drive (named "Ext_Disk") from a windows 10 machine, I get an error message saying that Windows cannot access or find this location. I am trying to connect by using "\\Phoenix\Ext_Disk".
In Unraid, I have tried setting "Enable SMB Security?" to Yes and/or Private, but it still is not working.The external drive is mounted and I do see my Unraid server, "Phoenix" on the Windows 10 machine and can access all of its shares, just not the external, unassigned hard drive.
How can I connect to the external drive on Unraid from my Windows 10 machine? -
As I mentioned, the SMB Security is set to Yes but it still is not working. I also tried setting it to Private, but no luck.
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Anyone else have an idea on how to solve this issue?
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Thanks, I tried that, it also didn't work.
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The external drive does not show up in my Network connections in windows. If I try to connect to the external drive (named "Ext_Disk") attached to my Unraid from a windows 10 machine using: "\\10.0.0.140\mnt\disks\Ext_Disk", I get an error message saying that Windows cannot access or find this location. Same thing if I try to connect using "\\Phoenix\mnt\disks\Ext_Disk", or "\\Phoenix\Ext_Disk".
In Unraid, I have tried setting "Enable SMB Security?" to Yes and/or Private, but it still is not working. The external drive is mounted.
However, I do see my Unraid server, "Phoenix" on the Windows 10 machine and can access all of its shares, just not the external, unassigned hard drive.
How can I connect to the external drive on Unraid from my Windows 10 machine? -
Yes, I tried "Public". Restarting the Windows machine did not help either.
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I have set "Enable SMB Security?" to Yes, but still can't see the drive on my Windows 10 machine.
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Changing the mount point name (I removed the parenthesis and spaces) seem to have fixed the mounting issue. However, I cannot see this drive on my windows machine.
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I am using the unassigned devices plugin, but cannot mount an external drive. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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I rebooted the server, and I can now see the contents of the drive. Thank you for your help.
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I do agree with some of your points. I don't think the unRaid UI is "Hard to get at" once you become familiar with it. And yes the whole tool vs setting thing is just a mess. For me, it is more about things like installing apps. This is soooo much easier to do on DSM. I have sometimes spent hours trying to figure out how an app is to be installed on UNRAID, whereas I could install the same app on DSM in just a few clicks! And yes DSM is really pretty to look at!