TooManyMovies

Not sure if I'm 100 yet but I downloaded PUTTY and followed some advice from googling the forum. I rebooted from putty. Webgui is now up. It started another parity check but hey, I can handle that even if I do have 42tb of data so far.... Thanks for the help everyone. I know the answers are out there it's just a little overwhelming for a semi-computer literate guy. If I am golden after parity check, which will take a couple days, the I will report back. Again, Thanks!!!

That got me back to a prompt. Feel much better. Thank you. Now I can concentrate on why all of shares show up but no unraid menu... It's probably the simplest thing.

I don't have notifications setup. If the cursor is blinking on the server monitor, is there a key combination to get back to the login screen or to a prompt? It looks like I need to power down but I want to do it safely.

Ummm. I'm a little worried now because I still have that blinking cursor. My server is running and I can't access the gui to spin everything down for a shutdown or reboot. HELP? Can I telnet in or something?

Embarrassed to say I don't know. But I'll give it a try. Thanks. Edit: Typed powerdown -r Now the cursor on the monitor is just blinking below that line. Doesn't appear to be doing anything.

Thanks. I did that. Still no luck loading getting the GUI to load. I need to research how to safely reboot from the server with the local monitor and keyboard and see what happens. Thought it might be isolated to my desktop PC but it's not working on my ipad or my laptop. At least I can still access my server through windows explorer and watch Plex. But I do want to find out what is going on.

Upadate. After googling a bit I found a suggestion to open cmd prompt, and ping sever, so in this case I typed ping jarvis and it comes back with 192.168.0.9 NOT 5. So number one, for some reason my IP address changed. I double checked on the server with ifconfig and sure enough it ends in 9 NOT 5 so I must have been looking at it crosseyed. But shouldn't it still be available in my web browser by typing in the address bar 192.168.0.9? The only reason I am getting concerned is about two weeks ago I got my first red dot so I had to replace a drive. The whole process what painless and perfect except for my mini panic when I discovered it. Since then I make it a habit to check the unraid control panel daily just for piece of mind. One thing not mentioned, I just completed a monthly parity check. Could that in any way be effecting it? EDIT: just logged into router again and now Jarvis is showing up where it didn't only 30 minutes ago. Still not cooperating with browser though so no unraid gui.

I logged into my router. I see IP addresses for everything in my house except SuperMicro or unraid... But I am accessing the files as we speak. I don't want to go poking around in the server for fear of screwing something up. I have a monitor and kb connected to the server and running ifconfig gives me 192.168.0.5 which is what is has been for the longest so that seems to have not changed. Any other ideas? Plex is still working on all devices and since I am running plex from within unraid, that makes me assume that unraid is fine and is just not wanting me to find it.

Thanks for the reply. The IP address to access my unraid has always been 192.168.0.5 so... I will do as you suggested. Again, thanks!

I have never seen this in the year+ that I have been running my unraid server. The server is named Jarvis (let my son name it but it's a good one) and I can usually type //Jarvis/ in my web browser to get log in. All of a sudden today, and I have made no changes, it won't work. I can still access plex from my Apple TVs and Jarvis is still available under networks which is how I transfer movies to the server so I have access to an extent. I decided to try just the IP address and not //jarvis/ as that will also work, but instead of getting the unraid login I get a supermicro login screen. I know the login is ADMIN ADMIN but I don't need that. What could be preventing my browser from connecting to unraid at the IP if the server is still visible on and fully accessible from my entire network? I know zero about linux or coding so treat me like a 5 year old. Thanks in advance. I have searched but obviously didn't use the correct search terms.

it's a 3tb drive that had nothing on it. it was formatted but never used. I had intended to use it in a bare dock with my video editing system but I figured it would be better served to replace the faulty drive. So it's possible I guess that nothing was even wrong with the other drive if its a cable or similar issue?

Don't you hate those people who reply to their own threads. I "thought" I remembered that I had read you could infact use any slot and assign so I moved the disk to a new location and it shows up to be assigned now. But I still need to know what to check to see why the other slot may be uncooperative. Listen, I know enough to be dangerous so be kind Thanks again.

Well almost a year and this is the first issue so I think I'm doing good. Earlier this evening I got the red X next to data drive 5 (it's a 3TB drive). I'm running V6 of unRaid btw. Things are working as they should regarding parity because the data (movies) on that drive are still viewable on Plex. I luckily have a 3TB drive that I was able to use as a replacement. I realize that I may have skipped a step and could have re-enabled the drive but I panicked. Anyway, took the array off line, powered down, removed the not working 3TB drive, replaced with a freshly formatted 3TB drive and powered back up. I can't assign the new disk though. It doesn't show up. I am going to check my cables and things to make sure nothing is going wrong there. Anything else I should check??? Can I install the disk to a new drive slot and rebuild it there? Thanks all.

Good to know. While I was thrilled to have everything back to normal I still didn't like not knowing what was going on. At least this explains why the share showed back up as normal. Thanks

You don't have to worry about that. I can't guarantee that panic won't ensue initially but I can guarantee that I won't do anything above a reboot without asking here!!!