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Post diagnostics for further help with this. That status is lost once the server is rebooted because it is in RAM, but the drives are still precleared.

If you stop the array, UD will pause preclear on the drives being precleared and they can be continued once the array is restarted. Click on the play arrow on the UD Preclear GUI page and the paused preclears will restart.

Please answer this question previously asked. Can you ping the Unraid server when connected to WiFi or LAN and the mount fails?

What is your mount command on the laptop? What does the laptop log show after attempting a mount?

I think I understand what you are trying to accomplish here. It looks like a credentials issue. You can't use the "root" credentials. You should set up a user with priveledges to read and write all of your shares on PLXEZONE2. I have one set as what I call an "Administrator". You will know this works when you go to set up the share on PLEXZONE and the shares are listed when you click the "Load Shares" button using your "Administrator" credentials. If the shares are not listed, your credentials are wrong.

I want you to try a SMB Extras setting and see if it helps with the permissions issue. Add the fiollowing line: force user = nobody in the SMB Extras on the Settings->SMB page. This should force all users on SMB shares to be treated as 'nobody' for both reads and writes.

Give me some time to review this post.

It works for me. Post your diagnostics so I can see your setup.

Hiding dot files is controlled by the Settings->SMB setting. It applies to all SMB shares - Unraid and UD shares.

The log will show a deleted file right away, but it can take up to 5 minutes to show in the Recycle Bin shares tab.

Only files deleted through SMB (network shares) are recycled. Files deleted using the File Manager, Krusader (or similar), or cli commands do NOT get recycled.

@cloudyhome Nice writeup! One suggestion. Don't use the 'devX' designation from the 'Disk Name' field. UD defaults this to the 'devX' designation Unraid assigns to unassigned disks and it can change. Assign a unique name to the 'Disk Name' field as an alias and use that in your script.

USB is not generally robust enough to do reliable preclears.

Use UD Preclear plugin. It has a disk erase mode.

Did you intend to report this as a UD issue?

Ok, it seems a change was made in Unraid 6.13 to address an issue with saving script files after a UD change. It has been fixed in 6.13, but 6.11 and 6.12 will have an issue. I will update UD once I come up with a way to make a proper fix.

You need to unmount the disk in UD and mark it as passed through so UD will prevent any operations while the VM is using the disk.

That can't be used as a file name because it is a folder. The name you want is '/boot/config/plugins/unassigned.devices/some file name'.

I'm not having any trouble with scripts. Is your disk or remote share mounted? The script buttons act differently if the device is mounted. If the script is running, you are even more limited in what you can do. The only button that applies changes is 'Apply'. There's an off chance you are running into a php warning or error. Check the Tools->PHP Settings and see if anythjing is logged.

Currently Unraid's value is 'smbd max xattr size = 65536'. You can try setting this value higher in the smb-extras, but I don't think this is your problem. smbd max xattr size = <new value> I think @Frank1940 may have the answer - see above.

How about you change your strategy and mount and unmount the shares as needed for your backup. You could also add some code to check that the backup server is online by pinging it before auto mounting and either waiting for it to come on line or fail the backup. In pseudo code: Ping remote server and see if it is on line. If not, wait for it to come on line, or fail the backup script. rc.unassigned mount <backup remote share>. Perform the backup... rc.unassigned umount <backup remote share>. I wouldn't have dockers running depending on the remote mount to be available if it is turned off. Coordinate the use of the mount points with when the backup server is on line.

Sounds like you might be getting stale file handles. Post diagnostics.

Look in /flash/preclear_reports/.

A few things to try: You are using tailscale. Check your setup and be sure the 'SARAH' server is seen. Try pinging it from the server that is not showing it as mountable. Ping both the name and IP address. Try using the IP address of 'SARAH' in UD instead of the name. The issue may be name lookup.

Post diagnostics from the server that is failing.