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Many thanks for the quick replies... I managed to solve this problem myself (with careful restudy of the manual again)... I want to document it here, if somebody else come across the same phenomenon: At first, I realize, that even a headless server is not "headless" - a local monitor directly to the server will show the terminal - what I forgot in the first instance is, that the display is in sleep and needs to be awake from a keyboard to show any picture.... realized that after half an hour.... lol Then comes the first challenge: Input the very complicated root password with a foreign keyboard and special characters included without feedback from the screen within 60sec... It needed 5 attempts until, I could input the password without misprints in the foreign Belgian Azerty keyboard not showing the usual qwerty layout (the server is configured with qwerty). It means that you need to find out how to input the special characters of the 64 letter password at first, than train to input fast manually without faults.... there is no copy and paste in this situation.... another 30min... Finally I was logged in.... pfff Now: powerdown The idea was to restart the Unraid with the local Gui for easier work... After seeing the Unraid Root dashboard, it was evident, that the network connection was down - it says in settings to check the cable.... hi As I said earlier, originally the server was configured as Bonded enabled and Bridge enabled on eth 0 - the second ethernet connector was not used (no cable) However what I believe has happened is: - there are no marks at the Ethernet ports, whether it is eth 0 or eth 1 - in fact the cable was not physically connected to eth 0 but eth 1 - but because bonding was enabled originally it didn't matter - still the was network because of bonding... (is this possible ?!?) - but when I disable bonding via the webgui from the remote computer, Network was immediately broken and no connection any more... So - now I have changed to no bonding mode but bridged AND changed the Ethernet port - took out the cable from one port and insert it into the other port... No problem - no Network loss, even bonding on both network ports is off So this problem is solved , as Unraid is running normally without any problem... That is how I leaned about "Bonding" in networks the hard way...... it now to read the books about what bonding is really all about....

to make things worse: - no SSH configured (disabled) - no Telnet configured (disabled) - server runs headless (no display) Is there any way to power down the server in a controlled way to reconfigure the network settings ? The fixed IP adres was configured in the router.... I do not remember to have changed anything about DHCP/Fixed addr in the Unraid settings... perfect isolation, it seems - what to do ?

sorry, I can't help, as there is another problem at the moment... see:

I forgot to mention: The server has a fixed internal IP adress

It seems, as a newbie, I have caused a serious fault in the Unraid settings, which results in all network communication is terminated and I cannot reach the server anymore: I use an old Supermicro Tower configured as Unraid server, which has two Ethernet ports onboard (eth 0 and eth 1) Only one Ethernet port is used in the server (eth 0) and the other has no connection at all (no physical cable connected) and not configured in Unraid Now comes the problem: - I have read here in the forum, that in the Unraid settings the Network Bonding should be (optional) switched off in the settings and bridging switched on. Originally both were switched on. So according to the suggestion I switched off the network bonding in Unraid network settings. Obviously I fatally misunderstood the advice, because now, I cannot connect to the WebGui of the server nor anything else. Docker and VM management has been switched off, in order to make the changes in the Unraid network settings... Unfortunately as a consequence the Unraid server is not reachable from the network on the old IP internal IPadres The server is not reachable from outside (internet) What should I do, to reach the server again ? The server is running, but invisible... Many thanks for help

Problem seems to be solved. Yesterday late evening I switched the server off and when I switched it on today the My server plug-in now shows too licenses: - the old TRIAL, which may still be usable a couple of days - the new purchased Unraid Pro Plus, which I am using now Also in the My Server plug-in my Server shows up with its name in black letters without warning... So all ok now - solved

Sorry for my stupid questions as just a brand new Unraid user: I have recently purchased the Unraid OS Plus license. I followed the installation process from the wiki, as I changed also from the old USB stick to a new one just before the purchase. Now the dashboard shows correctly my license instead of Trial Unraid OS Plus at the upper right corner of the screen... all ok. But: I have also installed the My server plug in. My server shows up in orange color with a warning mark. When I open the my server dashboard it says, that I am still on TRIAL mode ... When I want to download my license key to install the registration key in the Unraid TOOLS menu, the my server plug in tells me, that the registration key to download is still the trial key.... What do I need to do, to install the purchased Unraid OS Plus key correctly (which I don't know) I never got that key file and don't know what to do. May be that the trial license is still valid for a short while, but I want to prevent that the server shuts down... I need to ASAP install the license correctly. Thank you for your support.

All worked seamless and I am now a happy license holder.... thanks

I found this in the documentation files: https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Changing_The_Flash_Device It says that the trial license will not work or even copied to the new replacement USB stick, but will remain forever on the old stick (although expire) Now , booting the fully configured Unraid server (during the trial period) from the new USB stick will not start the array, until I have bought a license ... So it seems to me, that the backup-configuration of the flash drive from the trial back-up (zip file) will work and start up the disk array with the new purchased license and the disks will not been reset to a blank status ... Is this correct ?

"Why do you not want to use the flash drive you already have configured?" Because it is a very old, almost mechanical damaged USB stick, which I got for free somewhere as a promotion gift. This stick is already almost broken, as it is so old and carried around thousand times in the last years... That is why I bought a brandnew one - Samsung Bar Plus 32Gb - for use with he new Unraid server... To use the old usb stick for longer is no option. regards,

Dear, Since some time I have evaluated the Unraid product and are quite happy with the performance using the trial version. I have already configured a lot on my server hardware and do want to migrate everything to a new purchased licence - new USB stick is on hand - obviously registered in the forum and My Server plug-in installed. What should I do to upgrade to Unraid paid license - is there somewhere a step-by-step tutorial ? I have taken a backup of my current trail version USB stick. So what to do ? At which moment of the upgrade process I should change the USB stick hardware in the server ? Obviously I cannot boot the Unraid server without a license... Many thanks for advice.