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Hi @binhex just checking if you're aware of the recent backdoor added to xz/libzma? I checked using console and looks like some of your containers may be running an affected version of xz? I doubt this actually introduces any risk unless folks are somehow using SSH in same container (extremely unlikely!) but maybe worth reverting to a clean version if Plex uses xz at all?

This happened to me on latest release, I can confirm that a reboot resolved the issue, thanks.

+1 for an official API but it does NOT need to be a web based interface, the underlying individual software functions can easily use any suitable programming language. I'd love to see unRAID move to a completely open source support model, similar to how CentOS compares to RHEL, then I'd willingly contribute more time to the product and pay for a reasonable yearly support subscription. Perhaps there are other professional developers and testers out there that feel the same way? If so, maybe a crowdfunding effort to kick-start an official open unRAID fork is a viable option, as long as Limetech formally approve of course, as owners of the brand.

Sorry for not responding sooner. Yes, normally their servers act as gatekeepers between the public internet and your Plex server. When their auth servers fail, you therefore cannot log in and get to your own media. Apparently there is a method (which I've not yet tested and needs configuring in advance!) for serving media directly via DLNA (without any internet dependency) here: https://www.howtogeek.com/303282/how-to-use-plex-media-server-without-internet-access/

Very minor annoyance but my instance of Plex recently started 'refreshing' the main screen every few seconds, regardless of client. I just wondered if anyone else had this or just me? Considering rebuilding my library or trying another version.

https://status.plex.tv/ I had same issue by coincidence. I think there was a major outage in the authentication API at their end. When I checked their status page I saw a big spike around 11:00 today (13th November 2019) which was resolved by 12pm. (plex.tv - Authentication and API server - red)

Many thanks for providing this truly excellent resource, very much appreciated. I can't recommend this container enough to all unRAID users who aren't completely confident regarding their local network security. First scan here found 58 vulnerabilities just on my unRAID host, one rated HIGH that was an open SMB share which I'd accidentally put some files on that I shouldn't have. Anyway, this was really easy to set up, just takes a fair while on first use. [EDIT] Update: Found another interesting vulnerability in mDNS UDP port 5353 on my PS4 games console that is now blocked at firewall! IMPORTANT NOTE: My best advice to other new users of this is to set the advanced option to restrict the CPU affinity on the container, otherwise it can hammer your system at 100% CPU usage for a short while during the initial install at the plug in compilation process. I only noticed when my system fans suddenly went into full spin

Hi guys, just reading this and thought I should share some of my SSD experience. I have used a wide variety of different brands and types of SSD over the last few years, including in my unRAID server. Some general things I would like to share include never completely trusting the 'theoretical' versus actual SSD performance at different sequential/random sizes and queue depths, testing bottlenecks using random/incompressible data to RAM disks (as suggested already above) and being very wary of different trim, wear-leveling algorithms and secure erase features. Generally speaking PCIe/NVMe (stick based) SSDs are an improvement over older SATA models but not always. Anyway, I would fully recommend if your mainboard has support for PCIe/NVMe SSDs (sometimes called M.2/2280) then the better models like the Samsung 970 Pro can actually achieve sustained sequential transfers above 1250MB/sec for large multi-gigabyte file transfers that will occasionally saturate your 10 Gbps (1.25 GB/sec theoretical - 8 bits in a byte!) NICs. One other critical performance factor to consider is thermal throttling, sometimes the faster models will get very hot very quickly and might slow to a crawl to keep cooler, so having a decent passive heatsink on them might help. Finally, endurance and reliability of SSDs on Linux is a real factor worth considering, I have had around 20% of my old/early (mostly under 100GB) SSDs completely die on me, different brands but with similar controllers with questionable wear-leveling on them. Don't let that put you off though, things have improved significantly and I've also got a 10 year old Samsung 128GB SATA SSD still going very strong with barely 5% of its rated TBW endurance used I have just purchased a 500GB Crucial MX500 (PCIe/NVMe model not SATA) and looking forward to testing it but I do not expect it to perform anywhere near as well as a Samsung Pro although I think it has a 5 year warranty and 100 TBW rated endurance which should be more than enough for my average 5GB per day of writes. In theory it should last me up to 20,000 days or over 50 years but remember what I said about theoretical versus actual.

+1 from me too. I found this which might be really useful even as a simple docker hosted on both instances - https://gist.github.com/felixlindemann/dfee61a20bbd838cdb26f44cc5552404 If you could take a simple system path for source and target/s to sync with this might be both fast and (reasonably) secure? I know there are sync dockers already but having a Limetech supported default solution would be great and might even encourage users to consider buying more licenses for second servers...

To binhex I just wanted to say a huge thanks for creating this, I got it working perfectly using custom OpenVPN settings, I just needed to upload the relevant configuration files into the /OpenVPN folder. Thanks again, very much appreciated and keep up the great work, I look forward to testing any other dockers that support VPN in the same manner, would love to see a VNC based Firefox web browser image that would be really cool

Perfect will give that a whirl, thanks for the almost immediate reply [EDIT] - Super easy solution - worked perfectly thank you kindly, very much appreciated!

For anyone else struggling with the latest version, I suggest testing the excellent DelugeVPN image if you haven't already, I got it to work first time flawlessly.

Hi, same thing happened to me, got stuck in a loop after I updated. Please can you share the steps you followed to perform a downgrade? Thanks. PS - Thanks binhex for providing these solutions, much appreciated

Hi, I tested GPU pass-through and I found the main challenge apart from figuring out the PCI device strings was finding a HDMI cable long enough to get from the server to the monitor. Keyboard and mouse can be shared over the LAN using some excellent software called Synergy, which I was already using between two physical machines before but it seems very difficult to display from a GPU without using a really long HDMI cable - so where you will place your server is a key consideration if you really want GPU pass-through (as well as ensuring your hardware is fully compatible). I have a friend with unRAID who keeps his rig in his loft and runs really long cables down into a bedroom for GPU pass-through gaming. On another note the RDP front, I've had a VM running Windows Server 2016 that just needed the virtio accelerated driver ISO image from Red Hat and was up and running in no time. To be honest I wasted money on the GPU passthrough idea so glad I only got a mid range GPU and not a power hungry beast! I just don't game as much as I thought I might do. The killer app for me on unRAID so far is the Plex docker (especially when integrated with Radarr and rTorrent+VPN dockers!). If you've never heard of these things, I seriously recommend looking them up as I'm now addicted to building up a media library and filling my basic 4.5TB array so that I can justify building a much bigger rig If you have any doubt about whether unRAID will be worth it, get the trial version and play around with that. I am a very happy customer so far (after first couple of months) with the basic license version (up to 6 disks) . M

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Hello unRAID community, As I am still a bit of a newbie I thought I should say hello here. I built my new basic unRAID 4.5TB array around the start of this year, it has been running great for 45 days now. I am really starting to trust it more and more as I slowly fill it with data and love the raw speed compared to the old NAS box I replaced with it. The default Plex docker is running brilliantly, this was my main reason for choosing unRAID but I have also started using Sonarr and Radarr with rtorrent_VPN and this sweet combination means I will probably be filling the whole 4.5TB quite quickly! Today I just figured out how to enable remote access into a docker container running on my array via port forwarding on my router but unsure exactly how safe (or not!) this approach is, my method was to use the excellent 'Cloud Commander' docker with a user name and password while changing the listening port to a high number. I have also only mapped host shares as read-only but still I am a little nervous about security and wondering if the ProFTPd or SSH plugins might be a safer option. Kindest regards, M

Hi, Found this link on Reddit which looks very interesting, might give it a go at some point - https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/7c2l2w/howto_monitor_unraid_with_grafana_influxdb_and/ mf