RasterEyes

Now I see what I was missing! For SMB, the remote share was simply "video". For NFS, I need the whole path "/mnt/user/video". I never would have suspected that.

If you mean Unassigned Devices, I've already got it installed. Try using it in what way?

I've been using SMB to back up one array to another array. That was very easy to set up, and works well except for one thing - I can't duplicate symbolic links. So I'd like to try using NFS. So far, it's maddening. All attempts to connect are refused no matter what I try. I'd think the simplest, albeit lowest-security way to do this would be to set the security of a share to "Public". But even using "Public", I can't get the share to mount. Since the GUI simply fails to mount the remote share without providing an error message, I tried mounting from a terminal. root@Terminus:~# mount -t nfs 192.168.42.12:/video /mnt/temp mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.42.12:/video I've tried "Private" as the host security setting too, so I could configure the rules in various ways with an allowed IP address, root_squash, no_root_squash, etc., etc. Nothing works. My user and group ids already match between my two arrays, so that shouldn't be an issue. I'll admit I don't understand the NFS security model very well, but I'd hope there's some simple way to do this, even if it's a low-security method. My server doesn't have any sensitive data -- it's just video for entertainment purposes, and can only be accessed from within my home LAN. What am I missing? My array has been too busy to reboot it with different logging options, so I'm putting that off for now. Besides, I'm hoping I'm just missing something simple, and that a deep diagnostic dive isn't required to solve this problem.

I have been sharing a share from one Unraid array to another using SMB. This works well except for the problem that I can't back up symbolic links. So I'm trying to use NFS instead -- which so far is utterly confusing. When I try to mount the remote share by clicking on the MOUNT button, nothing happens. I get no error message, but nothing gets mounted either. I'm wondering if one of the problem is that I don't have a device script set up - for whatever that's supposed to accomplish. I'd love it if somewhere someone has documented a straight-forward way to use a share across two Unraid arrays that bypasses having to learn from scratch all of the godawful configuration options that seems to go along with NFS. I see no "Default" button anywhere. Clicking on that message merely brings up a blank one-line-tall list.

I just ran into this issue myself. I'm getting the "Some or all files are unprotected" warning, even after running the Mover, and know I know why. For me, however, the symlinks are working just fine. They exist only on the cache drive, but they function at the share level. For me the only problem to solve is the false warning message about unprotected files.

About four years later, I've just run into this issue too. Any solutions yet? I'm guessing there's some difficultly with the handling of symlinks on SMB shares.