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Hi everyone, hope you all had a great Christmas. Anyway, got rTorrentVPN working with "ivacy" VPN which uses VPN_PORT as 53. My supervisord.log contains the following lines:- 2016-12-28 07:15:36.950867 [warn] VPN_INCOMING_PORT not defined (via -e VPN_INCOMING_PORT), downloads may be slow and Wed Dec 28 07:15:48 2016 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info. Both are warnings and things do seem to be working OK, do I need to do anything about them? What? Cheers DC

I'm not in front of the box right now, but when I get home from this business trip I'll check actual speeds. It's more than adequately fast to send 2 x HD streams to my HTPC and bedroom TV (Samsung smart TV). Getting drives to spin down seems to be an issue when using VMs so will definitely report.

Running the registered version of UNRAID in a Virtualbox VM, the idiot-proof route (I am that idiot). This is how I got UNRAID registered version running happily under Virtualbox on my Windows machine. Main reason for doing this was to rationalise the number of boxes in the lounge. Performance is adequate, when I'm using Windows UNRAID is idling and when UNRAID is working serving my media then Windows is not doing much. Being technically competent, but a bit old and slow when it comes to learning new stuff I did a lot of Googling. Of course there are loads of ways of getting this thing going, many are decidedly complex in nature. This is my distillation of that data. As I said, this is the non-technical, no mucking around with Linux distro's route. It works for me, YMMV. [*]Take one USB memory stick (it does not necessarily need to be the one linked to your registration), make it bootable and install UNRAID on it in the usual manner, however do NOT name it UNRAID, I called mine UN-HDD. [*]Make a VHD image of it using WinImage http://www.winimage.com/ , the free unregistered version does the job just fine. Put the image in your .Virtualbox folder. [*]Make yourself a VM in Virtualbox and set it up to use the VHD you just created as the startup disk. I gave my VM 4 Gigs and 4 processor cores. [*]Create some virtual drives to play with as your parity and data store. [*]Plug your registered USB drive into a USB port, this one must be named UNRAID. [*]In your VM create a USB filter for this device, no need to fiddle with settings the defaults work. [*]For testing I set the VM networking to be Host-only. [*]Boot your VM, it should start from the VHD drive but pull your registration data from the USB. You can actually delete everything except the Config folder from the USB if you wish. [*]Configure and format your storage. [*]The Device Info. screen for your flash should show the GUID and registration info. Enjoy. In order to update your UNRAID version, no need to make a new VHD image. You can mount the VHD using the scripts here http://www.howtogeek.com/51174/mount-and-unmount-a-vhd-file-in-windows-explorer-via-a-right-click/ copy the new files to the drive, and then unmount it (you need to stop the VM before doing anything), whilst you're at it delete the Config folder from the image (just to avoid confusion) all the configuration resides on the USB. If you want to use real drives rather than virtual (for a real world application) I used the commands here http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-a-usb-flash-drive-in-virtualbox/ to discover the device number and to create a .VMDK for each of my storage drives (don't forget to give them different file names) and then attached them to the VM in the usual way.

OK updated to 4.7 From this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12693.0 I found that changing permissions to 666 fixed the problem, since they're video files there's no issue with the X attribute .

Seems like you have a similar problem to myself, recently posted in this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12687.0 Hopefully it's something stupid

Probably a REALLY dumb question. I've got a lot of folders on my server that show as empty from Windoze boxes but have size and the files are visible from the unRAID file browser. If I try to copy files (the same files) into the 'empty' folder I get the Windows 'replace file' dialogue. Folder next door appears to have identical properties but the files are visible. Help please EDIT unRAID 4.6 Pro.

We're near Chai Badan 15°12'22"N 101°8'12"E Yeah, I may end up getting something off ebay, customs are rarely an issue, the courier failing to find the house is the usual problem. I'm just worried that as I can't get the network card going maybe my PCIe slot is buggered or somehow disabled (I see nothing in BIOS). If it is I'll just get a new mainboard. Card works fine in a Windoze box.

^^^ I would if I could get one. Owners of Japanese motorcycles in the 70s will have heard of the metal 'Unobtainium' when referring to spares, PCI-E SATA controllers are made of the same stuff here. I was lucky to get the network card (ordered in error by the local computer outlet). I also just happen to have a spare PCI SATA controller.

OK Chaps, I'm a bit of a dunce when it comes to things Unix. My UNRAID array has been buzzing along happily for a year or so now, just loaded the latest stable release. Time to add more drives, problem. The MB network controller is toast so I've been running with a PCI controller, no problem, the only other PCI slot has got a SATA controller in it. Need to free up that PCI slot. I DO have a PCI-E slot for which I obtained the only PCI-E network card I could find locally (we're in rural Thailand, getting anything computer related is a challenge). Anyway I've got a TP-Link TG-3468B which is based on the Realtek 8168B chipset. With the new card in the PCI-E slot (still with the old card in so I can Telnet to the box) no dice, I don't see the shiny new card. Sooooo, should I be loading drivers (there are Linux drivers on the disk that came with the card) or something equally inane and stupid Told you I was a Unix dunce. Help please, or a pointer in the right direction.