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Hrm, alright. I've needed to re-install Windows for a couple other reasons too, so this is good timing actually. Thank you for your help!

Alright, I just tested this on my laptop, and you're right it does work as usual on this other PC. Although a couple things are different on the laptop, namely it's running Windows 7 (as opposed to Windows 10), and I'm also connecting there via Wi-Fi whereas on my regular PC it's via 10GbE Mellanox card and an SFP+ cable.

Bump (sorry I just don't know who else to turn to with this)

Did anyone have any input or suggestions for my problem here?

Hey guys. This problem has actually been going on for several months now, but I've just been working around it and delaying getting more help with it. I'm using Unraid v6.11.1, and here are the plugins I have installed... ...and an overview of my system hardware... ...And my diagnostics zip is attached below. 🙂 The problem I've been having is that if I make any changes to a file within any directory on my array, then go back and try to move or rename that directory, I'm prevented from doing so and receive the error message in Windows Explorer that says: "The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program. Close the folder or file and try again." This is occurring after the file has already been saved and closed. I found a few other topics asking about problems similar to this one, and I've tried a few of the basic suggestions recommended there, but many of the solutions in other threads involved entering very specific commands into the Unraid command line and frankly I feel a little uncomfortable doing anything that in-depth without some more personalized guidance from someone more experienced with this stuff and who can see my system specs and diagnostic info. But the things I've tried so far that successfully have unlocked any stuck directories (temporarily at least) are: restarting Windows or the array (of course), disconnecting and re-mapping the array Network Drive in Windows explorer, installing or updating a plugin, toggling "Enable Docker" either on or off, and then sometimes I'm able to go back later and make changes to the problematic directory(s) out of the blue without having done any of those things, and I'm not sure what it was that caused them to be unlocked in those cases. The issue does continue though if I make any more changes to files within those directories. Interestingly I am still able to simply create a brand new directory and then move all the files contained within the problematic directory to the new directory without any problem (until I make any changes within that new directory, and then it locks too). I've also tried running "Docker Safe New Perms" as well as regular "New Permissions" multiple times, even including the "appdata" folder on one occasion just to try it (I don't use any dockers). I've tried going to Windows "Credential Manager" and deleting the saved user name and password for my array (multiple attempts there as well). I've also tinkered around with User settings and Share settings on the array, deleting/re-adding my user profile and credentials there, changing Read/Write permissions, and also switching between different security settings for the share (Public, Secure, & Private). None of these things have fixed the issue and I'm hoping that someone will see what might be going on that's been causing this to continuously be a problem for the past several months. I really appreciate your time. Please let me know if you need any other info from me. 🙂 skynet-diagnostics-20230730-0522.zip

Hey, thanks for your replies. I took a few days to test some things. At the moment, I'm using the bridging set up that MAM59 originally mentioned in his first reply. To sum up, running nothing but the 10GbE cable out of my PC straight to the server (no direct internet connection at all, either wi-fi or ethernet), and then the server being the one connected to the internet via its own separate ethernet cable. So here's a good example of what I'm encountering speed-wise, and hopefully this will suggest some causes. I'm using a rom manager program that automatically sorts and renames files in a designated set of folders. The rom manager program is on my C drive. And all of these designated folders are on my server (the array specifically; I don't have any pool devices set up.). I also use Mega's "MegaSync" app to auto-upload certain folders from that folder-set to cloud storage. MegaSync is also running from my C drive. Typically, when I don't have the rom manager running, MegaSync uploads at about 3 to 3.5 MB / second. But as soon as I click "go" on the rom manager, my cloud upload speed drops down to only about 100 KB / second or so... Based on the bridging set up, in an ideal situation at least, I would want those two C drive programs to only send communication through the 10GbE to the server, making decisions about moving files where they need to go, but having the files themselves be moved only internally within the server and outbound to the cloud via that dedicated ethernet cable. But based on the fact that the outbound files and intra-server files seem to be tied together speed-wise, I can only guess that maybe one of those programs is running files to itself through the 10GbE cable and then sending back and out through the ethernet to the cloud? Or on the other hand, what I'm really hoping, is that maybe there's simply a setting in Windows somewhere that is causing it to conflate how it manages local connection bandwidth vs. internet connection bandwidth, not realizing that it can treat them separately... But again, this is all pretty new to me, so take all my guesses and speculating with a grain of salt.

Yep, I'm connecting to the WebGUI via that eth1 IP address (192.168.1.102), as well as mapping a network drive in Windows Explorer using that same IP address as well. What I'm observing is that if I try to upload or download files at the same time that I'm doing transfers to/from the server, the speed of one (or both) will often drop off considerably. I've even had my cloud upload speed drop down to less than 100 kilobytes per second or so. Admittedly it is usually some pretty heavy loads (both online traffic & local traffic), but it's nothing that I haven't been able to do successfully before (pre-having the server), so I'm pretty sure it's something to do with my server setup that's causing the lag. Sometimes these uploads/downloads are straight to or from the array (in which case, the lag is probably understandable to a certain degree), but other times the online traffic is to/from the C drive instead (completely unrelated to the server at all), and yet that speed correlation is still there.

And then these are my PC network settings. First one is Wi-Fi [should-be-]internet-only connection: And this is for the Mellanox 10GbE card: My cabling is as you described. PC has Wi-Fi USB adapter to router, and then 10GbE SFP+ cable running to server. Server has a 1 Gb ethernet cable running to router (via Powerline adapter, if that matters), and then that 10Gbe SFP+ cable running into the PC. Anything amiss that you're seeing in any of these screenshots? Let me know if you'd like another diagnostic report or anything. Thank you

Okay, yeah that's what I thought... And that's exactly what I had set up and was trying to make work (maybe I didn't explain it well). My setup is based off this YouTube video (Windows version & Mellanox) : But yeah, for some reason my PC seems to think that the traffic from both of those network connections is linked or something. Seems very strange that the purely local 10GbE traffic would somehow interfere with the speed of the purely online traffic... Is there perhaps a PC setting or something that will tell my computer to stop associating the two? These are the Network Settings I had set up... I had a suspicion that it might be the Routing Table that needed adjusted, but it wouldn't let me add/edit anything, which is why I tried deleting the network.cfg originally:

Huh okay, I'll have to look into that... Just to clarify, so that will result in the server being unconnected to anything except for the 10 GbE into the PC, right? And then the PC will be connected to the Switch? So basically just an inverse of the other set up you mentioned. Any internet needed for Unraid will go through the PC's internet connection. And then the Unraid <-> PC file transfers and stuff will be going exclusively through the 10GbE cable. And the PC <-> internet traffic will be going exclusively through the Switch. With each types of traffic completely independent of and not affecting the other? Am I understanding that all correctly? I want to also mention, I'm not worried particularly about the independence of the server <-> internet from the PC <-> Internet. I rarely, rarely use internet from the server itself (only downloading plugins and such).

Update: Didn't have any luck with deleting the network.cfg and rebooting, but I looked up the specs on my motherboard, and indeed the PCIe lanes weren't enough to power all 3 devices I had plugged in. I decided to just remove my graphics card entirely, and bump my MBA and the Mellanox up a slot. Bingo, worked like a charm. Apparently, the card was only working before because my network settings had already been established when I installed it. Deleting/resetting the network.cfg seems to have revealed my PCIe limitation there. I then went back and tried the solution @MAM59 mentioned to my original problem, bridging the 10GbE and regular ethernet connections. It does work pretty well, and I've been testing it the past couple days. But it still seems like there's a bit of interference between the two connections (heavy server usage affects my internet speed and vice versa). Is there any way to simply isolate the 2 connections from each other? Have one line into my PC for internet, one line out to my server, and have the bandwidth from each not affect the other at all? I appreciate all your guys' help so far.

Hmm... Thank you for the response. That sounds like it might be a good solution to what I was trying to accomplish originally. And I tried it just now to be sure, but it appears that my 2nd issue still remains... That I'm not able to use my Mellanox connection to connect to the Unraid server in the first place (caused by whatever happened when I deleted the network.cfg file). Since then, it's stopped showing up in my Network Settings at all, no matter how I've tried to configure it. (I lose access to the Web GUI when I try to connect any way except for through my Wi-Fi and the server's default ethernet<->router connection) This is what I'm seeing in the Web GUI. And yet it looks like it's still being detected in System Devices... And this is what I'm seeing in Windows Network Connections: Any other ideas as to what might be causing this?

(Using OS 6.11.1) I have an ethernet cable from my server plugged into my router for internet access, but then an SFP+ cable running from a 10GbE Mellanox card in my server straight into my PC, for a faster direct connection between the two. I was trying to get my server to prioritize using the 10GbE connection over the slower ethernet connection and in the process tried deleting the network.cfg file. Now the Mellanox card isn't showing up in my Network Settings at all... And when I try to switch even the regular Ethernet settings back to how they were before, I lose access to the web GUI and have to delete network.cfg to start again. Kind of drawing a blank here... Thanks in advance for any help. skynet-diagnostics-20221014-0544.zip