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To get to the user (non-admin) interface you need to use this address: https://unraidipaddress:943/?src=connect I would then bookmark this.

I have been messing about for about 5 days trying to get this to work but finally I have it sorted (using bridging only). Because port udp 1194 is already in use on my system I have been mapping to a different external port. But after downloading the ovpn file for the client I was constantly getting the server poll time out. What I have found seems to indicate the connection file you download from the gui only contains the container port for connection. If you are doing a straight 1194:1194 this makes no difference. But if for example you keep 1194 internal and map to say 1200 externally, the file will still contain 1194. If you change the internal port through the gui to match 1200, the file will contain 1200 but I don't think the container actually updates to use that port and remains using 1194. What I did was leave internal port at 1194. Set an alternative external port, say 1200. Download the ovpn file. It will contain 1194 in it. Edit the file changing the 1194 to the 1200. Then import that file into client. It works!!!

OK thanks for the feedback. Just been doing a little bit of reading on SSD but the reliability with regards the number of writes has always put me off them. In a way it's like comparing DVD-Ram in a caddy (100,000 writes capable) to a DVD-Ram bare disc or DVD-RW (only 1000 writes). I have a big pile of DVD-Ram caddied discs for my dvd recorder and prefer to use them over the bare discs (although I do have both). I might have considered a 60 GB mSata SSD but it seems it's recommended to not fill them more than 50% to allow some movement to different blocks on rewrites. It would cost £50 for one of these which is very expensive compared to normal hard disks. I'll more likely re-use an older hard disc like I alluded to in the earlier post - recycling is cheaper:).

Thanks for that. I thought it would be the case that the VM would slow down once the array is fully parity protected. As would all IO compared to the current single disc set up. Presumably I would not have to use an SSD though - I could use a spare mechanical hard disc as an external disc on the array. Obviously an SSD would be faster. I'll have to see what I can afford next year. When I reconfigure my computers I could have a spare 400GB or 1TB SATA2 Samsung hard disk I could use as an app disk. The command for mounting in the go file would be a bit different. So the best option for me would be first set up an external disc, set the option to use that as the default vm folder, copy over the current vm folders to the new disc, check that runs OK. Then add the 2 new disks, pre-clear them and get the 3 disc array going? Or would there be a problem in copying the VM files (should the current vm be 'cloned' instead)?

Hello ,my first post. I decided I would try out unraid server (5.0 final) as a better way to have a DLNA server, etc and larger storage than my current Dlink DNS-320 which was getting full and is not the best NAS. I am unlikely to need more than 3 discs for some considerable time so the free version will suffice until some point in the future when I might have to expand. I have started with only one disc (all I can afford), a WD Red 3TB. I hope to add 2 more hard discs next year to finally get a 3 disc set up with parity. That capacity should last me at least a year or 2 before I consider expanding any further if needed. I currently run this with 4GB Ram and my usb boot drive is 4GB also. I have moved many of my mkv files to my new unraid server and have unmenu, control panel, snap, virtualbox and serviio set up. It is working well apart from the web interface for virtualbox plugin which seems to hang when using the buttons like start VM but the main unraid displays correctly if I close the browser tab and go back into it about 20 minutes or so later. I setup Xampp and phpvbox on a windows pc and used this to create a vm of win xp(with a 50GB virtual hard disc, 2GB ram). I set the default machine folder to be a user shared folder 'virtualmachines' on the unraid disc. Everything works fine and I have ripbot264 encoder running on my xpvm for distributed encoding which greatly reduces my encoding times. My question is with regards to the machine folder I have set to a user share folder. From the forum it seems most people use a path like /cache. Presumably this is allocated to a separate cache hard drive (only available on paid unraid) which is not part of parity. Whereas mine is on the data drive itself. The VM files have to be stored on a hard disc somewhere as the flash drive and ram are too small. When I come to add the extra 2 drives and start parity will there be a problem with the vm being stored on the data array like I have it currently? It takes me some time to get my head round the fact that the file system is mounted in ram but some parts are mounted on hard disc. So the VM file I have must surely be written to often plus I have an auto defragmenter running on this windows vm which will be rearranging that structure. Will unraid properly work with parity maintained? Is my VM file protected with parity? Sorry I am a bit confused.