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Verify that your Windows 10 workgroup (Right Mouse Start->System) is the same as unRAID's workgroup and that unRAID is set to be the local master in the SMB settings.

In running this script in the fullauto mode my lowest was 55.6 MB/s and the highest was 57.2 MB/s. The Bang for the Buck is 56.7 MB/s and the un-throttled is 57.2 MB/s. Does this mean on my system, these tunables do not make a big difference? I will pay attention to what is the speed of my current settings at the next parity check.

I don't have any errors in my syslog related to the bonding. My second NIC does not receive an IP address (no record in my DHCP server). The drop packets may be common when using these bonding modes. According to this document, under the Duplicate Incoming Packets section: Duplicated Incoming Packets It is not uncommon to observe a short burst of duplicated traffic when the bonding device is first used, or after it has been idle for some period of time. This is most easily observed by issuing a "ping" to some other host on the network, and noticing that the output from ping flags duplicates (typically one per slave). For example, on a bond in active-backup mode with five slaves all connected to one switch, the output may appear as follows: # ping -n 10.0.4.2 PING 10.0.4.2 (10.0.4.2) from 10.0.3.10 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.0.4.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=13.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.4.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=13.8 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 10.0.4.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=13.8 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 10.0.4.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=13.8 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 10.0.4.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=13.8 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 10.0.4.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.216 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.4.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.267 ms 64 bytes from 10.0.4.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.222 ms This is not due to an error in the bonding driver, rather, it is a side effect of how many switches update their MAC forwarding tables. Initially, the switch does not associate the MAC address in the packet with a particular switch port, and so it may send the traffic to all ports until its MAC forwarding table is updated. Since the interfaces attached to the bond may occupy multiple ports on a single switch, when the switch (temporarily) floods the traffic to all ports, the bond device receives multiple copies of the same packet (one per slave device). The duplicated packet behavior is switch dependent, some switches exhibit this, and some do not. On switches that display this behavior, it can be induced by clearing the MAC forwarding table (on most Cisco switches, the privileged command "clear mac address-table dynamic" will accomplish this). Edit: Until I get a real managed switch, I will leave the bonding at balance-alb. It appears to equally distribute packets between the two NICs and so far I have not noticed any dramatic side effects other than the dropped packets.

I started up four BD streams from different clients to see if both NICs were being utilized. Sure enough the transmitted packets count were almost evenly divided between the two NICs. Compared to before bonding, my 2nd NIC would not be active at all (zero packet transmitted or received). However the packets dropped counter on the second NIC keeps on going up. Surely this is not normal at all. Edit: I should clarify that all the packet drops are on the 2nd NIC (non-active slave in the bond) receiving end. No packet drops on transmitting.

Monitoring the Dashboard->System Status with the dropdown set to Errors, I see packet drops on bond0 (from the second NIC). Does anyone know if this is normal? I've been googling but have yet to come to a definite conclusion.

I decided to use adaptive load balancing (mode 6) bonding since there's no point having a second NIC sitting around doing nothing. At least iperf3 does not show any differences between having the bonding disabled or enabled. On another note, I even tried testing iperf3 between a Windows VM and my Windows desktop and the throughput is the same as between unRAID and my Windows desktop. So the unRAID internal bridge (br0) for VMs has no negative impact on my system.

I hope I am posting in the correct forum. I just installed the cache_dirs v1.6.9 plugin for unRAID V6.0.1. When I try to include 4 directories and press Apply, the first directory gets unchecked/dropped. So the result is that cached_dirs only caches 3 out of the four. My directories are named as followes: Asia, Movies, PBN, Shows To include the first directory, Asia, I have to use the User Defined options of -i Asia.

I just installed the cache_dirs v1.6.9 plugin for unRAID V6.0.1. When I try to include 4 directories and press Apply, the first directory gets unchecked/dropped. So the result is that cached_dirs only caches 3 out of the four. My directories are named as followes: Asia, Movies, PBN, Shows To include the first directory, Asia, I have to use the User Defined options of -i Asia.

Just found this topic and was curious as to what is the difference between the speeds mentioned here and the speed from this command: hdparm -tT /dev/sda

I just upgraded from unRAID V5.0.5 to V6.0.1. I have tried going a week without unMENU since unRAID V6 webgui is supposed to provide most of unMENU natively. Well, after a week, I find myself looking to install unMENU again! I don't know how anyone can say the unRAID webgui has replaced most of unMENU. Two features I use the most is the ability to customize myMain and ability to manage unassigned devices. Edit: Is this anything to be concerned about? Can I do something so these messages don't appear? Aug 31 14:25:27 Beanstalk unmenu-status: Starting unmenu web-server Aug 31 14:25:45 Beanstalk unmenu[23702]: cat: /sys/block/loo/stat: No such file or directory Aug 31 14:26:41 Beanstalk unmenu[23702]: cat: /sys/block/loo/stat: No such file or directory Aug 31 14:29:23 Beanstalk unmenu[23702]: cat: /sys/block/loo/stat: No such file or directory Aug 31 14:32:42 Beanstalk unmenu[23702]: cat: /sys/block/loo/stat: No such file or directory Aug 31 14:33:29 Beanstalk kernel: ntfs: driver 2.1.31 [Flags: R/O MODULE]. (System) Aug 31 14:33:29 Beanstalk unmenu[23702]: cat: /sys/block/loo/stat: No such file or directory Aug 31 14:33:29 Beanstalk unmenu[23702]: cat: /sys/block/loo/stat: No such file or directory

So I went ahead and issued the following commands samba stop umount /mnt/user umount /mnt/* sync mdcmd stop reboot The server came back up with everything running and no flashing red lights.

Attached is the /var/log/syslog syslog.zip

Attached is diagnostics from the CLI. beanstalk-diagnostics-20150829-2042.zip

I tried these commands in a telnet session, but the commands just hang. virsh list -all and virsh shutdown Win7Pro I am guessing my guest is named Win7Pro since that was what the webgui dashboard showed prior to being unresponsive.

No. I just upgraded to V6.0.1 and have not looked at plugins.

I was performing a Windows Update on my Windows 7 VM. When I couldn't remote desktop to the VM to check on the updates, I tried to access using remote VNC via the webgui. That brought me to the Windows 7 VM login screen, but everything appeared frozen. So I used the webgui to try to restart, stop, and force stop the VM. After the force stop command, the webgui is no longer responding. I can access all my unRAID SMB shares, telnet, and the console via IPMI. So now can someone give me the CLI commands to safely retart the server? I had one VM running and just unRAID. Or is there an easier way to safely recover from being locked out of the webgui and the Windows 7 VM? I suspect the Windows 7 VM ran out of memory and froze since I received a low memory message while Windows Update was running.

I just got Windows 7 Pro VM working following the guides. Everything appears to be working with the exception of Windows Update. It takes too long to check for updates and then just says error. I can browse the Internet and the VM shows up on my network. Any tips as to why I can't get Windows Update to run? I was able to activate Windows too. Update: Never mind. It just started working. Maybe a Microsoft server issue.

I am running unRAID 6.0.1 and just got Windows 7 Pro VM using KVM working. My motherboard has two NIC (Intel® 82573V + Intel® 82573L) which are plugged into my unmanaged Zyxel GS1100-16 R switch. I have not enable bonding yet but have enabled bridging (br0) for the VM. It appears unRAID is only using eth0 and I have no idea what eth1 is doing. Up to now, I have been running unRAID on one machine (with the second NIC unplugged) and Windows 7 on another. Now that both are on the same machine, at peak time, my household tend to have two BD streams and two HD OTA recordings from my network tuners (HD HomeRun) going at the same time. [*]Should I enable bonding to utilize my second NIC? [*]If no to bonding, should I have the second ethernet port plugged into my switch? [*]If yes to bonding, which mode would work best with my unmanaged dumb switch and do I need to do any configuration with the Windows VM? [*]Other than bonding, is there a better way to utilize my second NIC? BTW, big kudos to all who made getting VM so easy to setup on unRAID. This is my first foray into virtualization and I am impressed!

Thank you bonienl! You have saved me a lot of alphabeting or ABCing (just doesn't sound the same as googling).

On Windows 10, use local account instead of a Microsoft account. If your Windows 10 local account name and password matches that of your unRAID username and password, then pass-through authentication is perform and you would not need to perform a login to access SMB shares. To switch your Windows 10 login from a Microsoft Live account to a local account: Start->Settings->Accounts->Disconnect My Microsoft Account I don't know what ramifications this will have for you if you use Microsoft online services like One Drive and Apps since I have always install Windows 8 & 10 with local accounts because none of Microsoft live apps are that useful to me. Edit: A Microsoft Live account is an e-mail account registered with Microsoft. A local account is just a username of your choosing.

I think you are mixing terms of shares and directories. To me a share is a SMB logical representation of a network storage. It is only defined in the SMB configuration. A directory is a physical folder on a disk. unRAID distinguishes between cache only and user (?) shares are confusing, but ultimately you can only have one SMB share on the network. In other words, you cannot configure two shares with the same name via Shares->Add Share. I am not asking to disable the mover, I am asking to disable the scheduler of the mover. The mover can still be initialized with the Move Now button.

So all you are doing is creating one share and a bunch of directories. You are not creating two shares. What you are describing is exactly what disabling the mover scheduler accomplishes with the exception that you don't have to manually move the files yourself. So in essence, prior to V6, all we have to do was click the Move Now button (after disabling the scheduler) and let unRAID determines which disk(s) to move the files based on our allocation and split level settings. One of the great benefit of unRAID is I specify my allocation method and split level and just copy files to a share. Why would I want to do it manually? My split level of "manual" determines what disk get use based on my directory structure and the space allocation settings. So it sound like we are speaking about the same thing, except you are suggesting to move the file manually, when I have been accustomed to letting unRAID do it for me at my request and not based on a scheduler. Edit: On another note, for those that do not use the mover scheduler (no cache disk or cache only shares), then why would you want it running? Wouldn't you want to disable it?

So to move the items in the cache only share to the array when they are ready, not only do I need to click on the Move Now button, but I also have to go change the share setting first? Then I have to make sure the share setting is back to cache only when the move is done? With the previous version, all I have to do is disable the mover scheduler once and then anytime I needed to move files to the array, I just click the Move Now button. Edit: The more I think about it, the more I realizes that this should not be a feature request, but a defect report. Basically the ability to disable the mover scheduler is broken in V6 compare to previous versions of unRAID. Would it better to move this thread to the defect forum?

So two shares with the same name will not have naming conflicts and to a Samba client like Windows or streaming device, the two shares will appear as one? I will have to test this out. If they have the same name, when I copy something to the share, which one will it go to? I don't want to move the files manually, I want the mover to move it when I click Move Now. This way, I can execute the move from non PC devices like a smartphone. Edit: Unless I am doing it wrong, but I cannot create two shares with the same name, one that uses mover and one that does not. Does SMB allow two shares with the same name?

Please do not recommend a cache only share because this would defeat one of unRAID goal of transparency to the user regardless of where items are located. So for files that are not ready to move to the array, users would have to know to look for it in one share and for files that are in the array users would have to look in another share. To the users, they don't care where the files are located. Keep in mind there is a need to have items on cache and then moved to the array on request and not on a timer. The on request Move now button is there, now we just need the ability to disable the mover scheduler. I don't know if the V6 Mover scheduler is using cron, but a disable option can easily set a fictitious date. Technically, this should be a bug report since the feature is there prior to V6 by (specifying a fictitious date) and now it is not.