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    unRAID 5.0

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

    Posted

    Yeah, yeah gimmee something to click on yeah, yeah..........

     

    Personally I think whomever wants to compile a list of options with maybe some good sound reasons for each option and then present it to either limetech or the plugin guys for decisions. I mean you could come up with a great poll then find out like mentioned people will vote for things that they don't even know what they are.

     

    I'm not a strong dev, but I've done my share of coding in various languages over the years, but have I really done anything that involves many devs at the same time? Nope so I wouldn't be the best person to even click a box in a poll nor do I think I should sway any influence towards a final decision..

    refresh

    in unRAID Server 4.5 [No new topics]

    Posted

    Just remember its still building the parity even though the webgui isn't refreshing. You could just hit the F5 key, which is basically the same thing or hit the Refresh on your browser.

     

    I'm guessing it doesn't refresh on its own simply because if you leave your browser on and walk away it would sit there and refresh constantly for no reason what so ever.

     

    Most of the time anytime now I just start the parity check and then turn off my browser and go on with my business. Its not like you have to sit there and watch it.

    will i get warning when disk fails?

    in unRAID Server 4.5 [No new topics]

    Posted

    Yeah simple to install. Just remember before you really judge like I did. There is a lot that goes into the core of this system because the develpers took their time to build the system in such a way that it simply works and works well.

     

    Now there are a lot of devs that find ways to well make it work a bit different with plugins. Plugins of course expand the way the system works. Now there are several people here, which I'd like to say I'm trying to be that well answer questions and help you all they can just to keep paying it forward because the system works very well.

     

    The difficulty of installing a working Warning system is this simple.

    1. Install unMENU which is basically one single file that you drop into your flash card and then you run a single line of code in your command prompt which installs the plugin.

    2. From command line after its installed you type uu and it starts up.

    3. http://tower:8080 which allows you to login to the new or I should say other WebGui app

    4. Visit the Plugin area

    5. Install the Infozip plugin

    6. Install the Complier plugin

    7. Install the ssmtp and click the reinstall after reboot option.

    8. Install the unraid status alert plugin and click the reinstall after reboot option.

     

    Of course make sure you change your settings to whatever you want them to be while your tinkering with the ssmtp and the unraid status. While your at it you might as well install the monthly parity app and of course click the install after reboot while you are at it.

     

    Now after your all setup and you start a parity check for the fist time you will get an email that says something or another like so.

     

    ---------------------------------

     

    Parity CHECK/RESYNC in progress 20.3% complete, est finish in 524.3 minutes 49484 kb/s.

     

    What does that have to do with anything? Well its showing that even the smallest things that do not appear 100% normal it will contact you to let you know something is off. Sure its technically normal, but the first time I recieved it I thought HUH? At least I know its doing its thing.

     

    The system should check every :47 after the hour. 0047, 0147, 0247, 0347 ............ If/when it finds an error you will be sent an email.

    Are email alerts possible?

    in unRAID Server 4.5 [No new topics]

    Posted

    Yes used UnMENU and check out this particular post.

     

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5568.msg66479#msg66479

     

    Basically you install once the InfoZip and the compiler. However do not set them to reinstall on reboot. After you install those install [mail and ssmtp] and [unRAID Status Alert sent hourly by e-mail] which of course you have to make sure after you install them set up their settings and make sure you click the Install after reboot.

     

    After you get everything setup in the command line basically copy and paste this and it will give you a test message to your email account that you setup.

     

    echo -e "Subject: a test\n\nThis is the email body." | ssmtp -d root

     

    If you use a gmail account the email settings are basically setup for that already. Just change your account info and leave everything else as is. I think in the Send email every hour I set it to NO because I didn't want a status OK every hour at :47 after the hour.

    Trying to understand Split Level in 4.5

    in unRAID Server 4.5 [No new topics]

    Posted

    Currently sitting like this.

    Share Movies

    Highwater

    Spit Level 1

     

    Share TV

    Highwater

    Split Level 2

     

    I read through the Wiki and the forum and there is some conflicting information and well honestly I'm rather confused. Use 0, Use 999, Use -1. This is my structure and can somebody throw me some help. ;) Currently I have only uploaded movies and they all seem to be on the same drive filling up one of my 1.5TB drives with 500GB available when I have a second one sitting there with nothing on it and a couple of 500GB drives empty. I haven't started uploading TV show files as of yet, but I kinda wanted to wrap my head around the split level before I started moving the TV files.

     

    Movie (Share)

    /480

    /720

    /ISO

    /Upload

     

    Under of course the various ones mentioned above I will have folders for each movie for example and TV.

     

    0 Movies (Share)

    1 /480

    2 --/Transfomers

    ----Transformers.avi

    ----movie.nfo

    ----movie.tbn

    ----folder.tbn

     

    0 TV

    1 /Lost

    2 --/Season 1

    ----Lost - S01E01.avi

    ----Lost - S01E02.avi

    ----Lost - S01E02.avi

     

    I thought Movie would be Split Level 1 and TV would be split Level 2. Am I wrong? I want all of the files from each movie together so if there was a subtitle or a second file to continue and each of the files from the various Seasons together. I don't have to have each Season together, but it would be nice to fire up my HTPC and watch an episode then watch the next one right after the previous without waiting for the disk to spin up.

    User and User Shares

    in unRAID Server 4.5 [No new topics]

    Posted

    I think I have my issue sorta kinda figured out. Instead of worrying about creating a guest situation I figured out I could simply create a net command bat file and then throw that on my laptop in my startup folder or just throw a short cut on the desktop and give the user read only access.

     

    This is basically what I did.

     

    Connect to Movies:

     

    connect2movies.bat

    net use z: tower\\Movies accountpasshere /user:usernamehere

    Connect to TV

     

    connect3tv.bat

    net use y: tower\\TV accountpasshere /user:usernamehere

     

    Of course in my example I only chose z and y as a testing base. You can use whatever you want. More than likely T for TV and maybe M for movies? You probably could combine them into one bat file, but I did that for the sake of doing it.

     

    Maybe you want to discount your drives when your done or maybe you used those above in another script for some odd reason.

     

    DisconnectMovie.bat

    net use z: /delete

     

    The reason some of this is important to me is for my windows machine. I really didn't want my windows machine logged in 24/7 with write access to my files. In the event I get hit with a virus or something I don't want it to run ramped through my files and kill them off. Now with the Net Use command I can run my scripts and have it connect first then run various things I have it run with write access then disconnect when its done.

    User and User Shares

    in unRAID Server 4.5 [No new topics]

    Posted

    Ok, I'm going a bit bonkers here. ;) I'm tinkering with User Shares and Users. I've not even begin to try and figure out the high water, split level, most free, fill up stuff

     

    This is what I want to do and maybe I'm going about it the wrong way so could somebody explain it to me just a bit. I have a HTPC in the living room and I want to stream my movies/tv-shows/pictures to it.

     

    I created the following so far.

     

    Shares

    Share name: Movies

    Included disk(s): Disk1

    High Water

    Export Read/Write

    Valid users: cj

     

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

     

    Share name: TV

    Included disk(s): Disk2

    High Water

    Export Read/Write

    Valid users: cj

     

    Users

    cj

     

    Now it appears that I can read/write to Disk1, Disk2, Disk3 directly. At first nothing was showing up in the My Network Places so I did the simple thing of http://tower and walla I had access. I began copying my movies to Disk1 and its appears when you look in Movies there they are.

     

    I'm assuming by copying videos directly to Disk1 it more or less ignores any of the Share settings because you are not copying to the Movies share directly, but to the disk instead. I kinda proved that by copying files directly to Disk2 and nothing shows up in the TV share. What I don't get thou is when I look in Disk1 there is a TV share. HUH? I told it to set it to Disk2, but why is it showing up in disk1?

     

    Another one. Now in my current setup I have to users accessing my current NAS. I have the following which both point to the same drive, but with different permissions.

    cj who has read/write

    guest who has read only.

     

    I can't seem to figure out how to set that up.

     

    Also do I want to map my HTPC to the Movie Share and the TV share and ignore the Disk1, Disk2 and so forth?

    unMENU 1.5 ... now available for download.

    in User Customizations

    Posted

    Thanks,

     

    This is the newest one after I downloded the updates and ran the installer.

     

    ssmtp_2.62.orig.tar.gz installation:

     

    The C compiler has not been installed.  ssmtp compile not possible

     

    ssmtp_2.62.orig.tar.gz apparently did not install properly, /usr/local/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf does not exist.

     

    I'm running a "Rebuilding Parity" right now and my machine is acting a little wonky so I'll give it another try in the morning.

     

    However thank you for jumping on that so quick I am really grateful.

    The '"C" compiler and development tools' is a package in the package manager.  Download and install it using the buttons in the package manager.  

     

    You'll probably also need to download and install the "Infozip" package (it is at the end of the list of available packages)

    Otherwise, if you attempt to install the ssmtp package it will let you know if the gunzip program has not yet been installed.

     

    Then you can re-select the ssmtp mail package and install it.  It should then compile.  You may want to install the swap-file package if you only have 512 Meg of RAM, as you might not be able to compile otherwise without running out of RAM and causing the kernel to start killing off processes in an attempt to free some for itself.

     

    Don't forget to edit the fields on the ssmtp package for your e-mail provider.

     

    Does this need to be set to reinstall every reboot? The reason I ask is well I did and I was tinkering around with my case since I wasn't happy with the wire layout and I'm trying to figure out why one of my drives is acting up. Anyways I had everything set to reinstall and it almost appeared after reboot I coudn't get an ip address then I couldn't even view the contents of /boot from command line. It was like my machine went a little bonkers. I more or less erased my USB stick and started over. I don't have tons of time invested, but you know... just trying to figure out things and my data is protected either way.