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Yeah, I restarted both Macs as well. A couple of times. No dice. Then I used my wife's Macbook Pro, which is still running OS X 10.7.4 (Lion) and it worked flawlessly. So I went back to my two Mountain Lion Macs, and strangely, they are working just fine now. WEIRD I didn't do anything to the ML Macs. After my success on the MBP I thought I'd try creating a new user to see if there was something wrong with my config. Before I got to even try that, I was able to mount UNRAID. The only delta in the situation was connecting to UNRAID via a different version of OS X. AFP works fine, Time Machine is working again. Everything. Whatever it is, I'll take it.

We had a power outage last night. I restarted my UNRAID server (rc5) and attempted to connect in my usual manner via AFP. I could not authenticate. I keep getting a "wrong password" indication. I'm running OS X 10.8.1 on both machines from which I've tried to connect. Everything looks fine on the server. I can connect without problem via SMB. All files, etc. are available. I've tried both public and private SMB security settings to make sure the user name/PW is working -- it does. I have checked and re-checked all the settings. Everything is correct and configured exactly as it was prior to the outage. I've restarted AFP, SMB, both system-wide and on each share. I've deleted and recreated all the users. I've restarted the server several times. Obviously Time Machine will no longer work with this server, so that's my biggest concern at the moment. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi All, I've been running 5.0 Beta 14 solidly for a couple of months now. I have everything working very well with my mostly-Mac network. I had perviously searched this forum for a post like this and never found one, so I thought I'd share some of my configuration info for other Mac users -- especially those like me who are not server/'NIX savvy. I hope this helps someone else with their setup. Basics: UNRAID 5.0 Beta 14, 6 2TB Hitachi 7200 RPM Drives, Intel G620 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 4U Rack Case Mac(s) running OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) on a Gigabit Ethernet (wired)/802.11n (wireless) network. I followed the UNRAID installation and initial configuration instructions found in the FAQ/Manual/Forum. I created a user "myname" and password, and set permissions to "Owner". To keep it simple, I chose the same username and password as my primary Mac user account. I'm on a closed network behind a firewall, so I'm not worried about this. I also created a username "wifename" so she could log into UNRAID and use it for Time Machine and storage. If you want to use AFP you must have a user name and password. AFP does not work with guest access. I set up these shares: "Big Disk", "Media", and "TM". I enabled Parity. I used high-water allocation and enabled the cache for everything except the TM share, which I limited to a single disk in the array (the sparse bundles should reside on the same disk). The hardest part of this was wrapping my head around the different protocols. We Mac users rarely, if ever, need to trouble ourselves with file transfer protocols. Just connect to the server and use the Finder. UNRAID offers both SMB (Windows) and AFP (Mac). Mac OS X will see and connect to SMB "Sharepoints" on a network, but interacting with them is not as full-featured as it is with AFP. Windows does not, by default, recognize or connect to AFP "devices" (shares), so if you have Windows boxes on your network you will need to use both protocols. UNRAID uses the term "Export" to mean "turn on" or "enable". I started with Time Machine. One of the advantages of version 5.0 is built-in Avahi (a previous add-on that allowed easy interaction with AFP). Follow these steps to set up a share for Time Machine: 1. Create and name your share. I called mine "TM". 2. Under "AFP Security Settings" choose Export/Yes (TimeMachine). 3. Set the Volume Size Limit. I chose something close to 1 TB. If you don't do this Time Machine will slowly fill your server to capacity. 4. Set user permissions. You will need to give yourself (user "myname") and any other users Read/Write privileges if you want to back to to Time Machine. Here's the tricky part: Mac OS X will not automatically "see" UNRAID AFP shares in the Finder. You first have to manually connect to them, then OS X will (most of the time) find them in the future. 1. In the Finder, choose Menu Bar>Go>Connect to Server ... (or just hit Command-K). 2. Enter [ afp://localIPaddress/TM ] 3. Open Time Machine System Preference 4. Choose "Select Disk..." 5. Select the "TM" share (it will look like an attached disk). Time Machine should work properly at this point. In the future, it will automatically find and connect to the "TM" share every time it wants to back up for you (hourly). For other shares: 1. Create and name your share. I called mine "Big Disk" and "Media". 2. Under "AFP Security Settings" choose Export/Yes. 3. Set user permissions to "Read/Write" 4. In the Finder, choose Menu Bar>Go>Connect to Server ... (or just hit Command-K). 5. Enter [ afp://localIPaddress/Big Disk ] or [ afp://localIPaddress/Media ] or [ afp://localIPaddress/whatevertheheckyoucallyourshare ] 6. In your Finder window navigate to your Mac's top level directory. Mine is called "Home iMac". 7. Select and drag your share(s) to the Finder Sidebar. It will self-sort under the "Devices" list. 8. I set all my shares to automatically mount on login. You do this via the System/Users & Groups/Login Items System Preference. Note: you cannot set SMB shares to automatically mount this way. With SMB shares, you must manually connect to the UNRAID server each time you log in. AFP allows OS X to automatically do this for you, which is very helpful when storing your iTunes library on your server (see below). To use the UNRAID server with iTunes, I created a dedicated share for media and copied my entire iTunes media folder to it. I set the split level to 3 to take advantage of the array. In iTunes, I set the UNRAID share/folder as the default media location. I use iCloud, so I leave my iTunes Library file in the default user/music/iTunes location on my Mac. Each of my Macs has its own local library file. Before I figured out how to configure AFP properly, I was just using SMB. This presented an annoying little problem: every time I logged back onto my Mac I had to remember to connect to the server before launching iTunes. If iTunes launched, but could not find the server, it would change back the media location to the default user/Music/iTunes location. If I then downloaded something from Apple it would go to the wrong place. Using AFP fixed that. I recently created one more share: "Scans". I have a networked KM Biz Hub that has a nice scanner. I previously sent the scanned files directly to my Mac via FTP, but that is not a really good option. Plus I had to make sure the Mac was on when I scanned. I set up my UNRAID server to receive the scans. The Biz Hub only offers FTP and SMB protocols, so I was forced to "export" SMB on my server. This is where the "Yes (Hidden)" setting comes in. I don't want to access the server via SMB, but I want the server to be accessible via SMB to my scanner. Here's how to set up the server to be accessible (e.g.: as a drop box) via SMB, but connected on your Mac via AFP: 1. Set AFP Security settings to "Yes" (as well as "Private" or "Secure" with user permissions) 2. Set SMB Security settings to "Yes(Hidden)" You can now access your share via SMB with a direct connection, but it will not show up in your Finder Sidebar under the server. You can now connect to the server via AFP just like the other shares above, and you don't have to mess with the SMB protocol at all on your Mac. This info is obvious to many of you, but it wasn't to me when I started using UNRAID. I hope this collection of info helps out someone like me who is just starting out with UNRAID and Mac OS X. I love it and am thrilled that it works so well.

Here's a strange one: I installed a Netgear PCI NIC, but absentmindedly plugged into the onboard ethernet port again. Now it works, even though I'm not plugged into the PCI NIC. Strange.

Well, there you go. Thanks for that info.

Hello, Noob here. I'm trying to get Unraid up and running for the first time. I started with the latest 5.0 beta 14 and everything started out working great -- I had no problem connecting to the server with the web interface. But since the beta package doesn't come with all the usual add ons (and because I'm a noob) I decided to go with 4.7. For some reason, 4.7 will not connect with my onboard ethernet controller. I have two flash drives (one with 4.7 and the other with 5.0). Going back and forth between the two produces the same results: 4.7 will not connect, but 5.0 will. Here is what I get when I run ifconfig in 4.7: Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 1c:6f:65:d2:06:2b BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric :1 RX packets: 0 errors, etc . . . TC packets: 0 errors, etc . . . collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes: 0 (0.0 B) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 B) Interrupt: 34 Bas address:0x8000 Obviously no IP address. Mobo: Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H-B3 CPU: Intel G620 2 GB RAM Were the ethernet drivers updated with 5.0, and if so, how do I update them for a 4.7 install? Thanks! encephalon