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That means as long as I have a newly created account with any game bought (not necessarily to be L4D2), I am good to go?

I would like to know that if I would like to host a L4D2 server, then I need a separate account with L4D2 in it? What if I just create another brand new account with no L4D2 purchased? or can I just use my original account without disabling the steam guard? Thanks!

Changed to Intel NIC and all solved.

Bump..I just wonder if my case is missed, thanks!

Hi, I am having an issue using the external storage. I want share files of my unraid share to my friends, so I mounted a SMB mount so that my nextcloud docker could access the UnRaid's share. Then, I can create a share link in the nextcloud and send it to my friend. The problem is, my friend can use the link and see the file, and download at fullspeed (the limit of my home network to ISP). But after awhile, it just suddenly saying "Failed - Network error" in Google Chrome. Tried for few times but still not able to download to whole file. The file is around 14GB large. Clicking continue to download does not work, it starts from the beginning. I tried to mount using both SMB and local, but the problem is still existing. I mount local by setting up another path in the nextcloud docker settings. Both of them have the same problem of "Failed - Network error". When I download the file locally, meaning that I use my computer in the same LAN to download it, it is fine and always complete the download. Any advice would help. Thanks a lot!

Did you start the mariadb?

I know the "config" should be in a cache-prefer share, and my appdata is in a cache-prefer share. What about the "data" folder? Should it be on a cache-prefer/enable share? or just cache:no share? I followed spaceinvaderone guide on YouTube and he used cache-enable, just want to make sure if it is right, cuz I just suddenly thought that would be a breach of not having the things on cache in the array until mover does its job. P.S. I used mariadb as the db. Thanks!

I have a Lubuntu VM, with vdisk size of 20G. Suddenly I saw there is 0 bytes of free space in it (in the file explorer like thing), so I decided to turn it off and increase the vdisk size to 30G using the method from here. Now after starting up the VM, I can just see the boot screen of loading Lubuntu, then black screen, nothing else. Btw I changed the screen size using this method, not sure if this is related, but if I remember correctly, I can still restart to the customized resolution normally before the vdisk full.

Ok thanks!

Thanks Squid! This is working great! But any newly created files after I apply this command is still having 0775, how can I fix this? Or I have to do the command from time to time for the new files?

I have the mineos-node docker installed. And I am using Unassigned Devices for the Server data folders. /mnt/disks/Servers/Minecraft/ -> /var/games/minecraft /mnt/disks/Servers/Minecraft/_data/ -> /var/games/minecraft/_data I made SMB share for /mnt/disks/Servers/ in Unassigned Devices. And I allowed myself (user_A) to have R/W in Settings->Unassigned Devices->SMB. So, now I can R/W using user_A in /mnt/disks/Servers/. The problem now is that I can only read files under /mnt/disks/Servers/Minecraft/ in Windows SMB, but cannot write anythings under /mnt/disks/Servers/Minecraft/. I have to do them all in the modifications through Unraid Console (using root), not even Krusader. /mnt/disks/Servers/ : users:nobody, 0777 /mnt/disks/Servers/Minecraft/ : root:root, 0755 (this directory is created by mineos-node, as well as "_data" folder) So basically now all things including /Minecraft/ has permission of root:root, 0755 Only this way I can start up the Minecraft Server properly, if I change to something else, the server profile disappear or I can't start up the server. How to I setup the permissions properly in order to allow myself (using user_A account created in Unraid) to R/W in /mnt/disks/Servers/Minecraft/ in Windows SMB? Thanks!

Thanks for your reply. May I know how exactly this work? Not sure how to do it and don't know where to start... Do you have to worry about the permission and ownership issue in this way? Does the permission set to the cache-only shares directly apply to the UD mounts with no conflict? Thanks!

I have UD installed and SMB turned on for UD. Now I am having 2 shares enabled under UD, so they are /disks/share1 and /disks/share2. I would like to have different SMB permission for them. For example, only user_a can R/W share1 and user_b can R/W share2. If I enabled R/W for user_a and user_b under UD settings, then both of them can access both the shares, which is not the case I want. May I know how can I achieve this? Thanks!

I am having issue with pfSense (VM). This is the only VM I am having. It works fine after starting up server and array. I mean the pfSense works normally, but after restart, it is not able to give out DHCP IP to my device, and I am only getting self-assigned IP, this is what I mean by fail. It fails when I tried to restart the pfSense VM. Restarting the VM alone, power off and restart the VM, turn on and off VM in VM setting, restarting the server, all does not work. It doesn't work until I completely shutdown the server then restart. A side note: When I was using q35-4.2, my 4-port NIC is not discoverable by the pfSense, but on q35-3.1, it is a valid interface. The above link was my problem, but after reading this post, I found that I might went to the wrong direction. When I was reading the pfSense log, there is a line similiar to this: error : qemuMonitorIO:718 : internal error: End of file from qemu monitor But now I am not able to reproduce it. When I was having the above line, I cannot start the VM as the system says: Libvirt Service failed to start My VM setting: Now, it seems that I am not able to reproduce the above lines error, but I am still having the issue of not able to get an IP from the pfSense DHCP Server after restarting the pfSense VM, only a complete shutdown of unraid would solve it. Any advice would help thanks!!! Attached please find my diagnostics. uncrate-diagnostics-20200223-1748.zip

@testdasi Thanks so much for all your answer!!! Since I have a combination of different drives (WD Green, Black and white labels), my original thought is to put heavy I/O work (such as parity) to white labels and black (for appdata), and to use Green as archive/BT drive(since they are old already). That's why I am having the concept of achieving 1 task by using particular disk. Thanks for all the clarification!!! @trurl Thanks for your info on cache!!!

So when exactly will the overflowed writes write back to cache? By invoking mover? Is this auto or manual?

That would make sense. Therefore it is right for me to put Bittorrent disk in Unassigned, right? Yes I will be running in mirror for SSD. That means I am going to backup the VM vdisk from time to time from my cache disk to my data array, is that correct? I haven't tried plex yet, may you briefing describe how do you "set things up"? Is it sth related to the setting in plex or what? Sorry for asking so many questions, many thanks!!!

@testdasi Thanks for your detailed answer! Or maybe put it into another way, I am going to use a group of disks to achieve a task. Will this make more sense to you? Can you please give some examples for things that need to be on a single drive? I don't understand that why VM should be cache: only. Let's say I am shutting down the Unraid, where is the VM going to be saved? If it still persist on the cache drive, then I assume that it loses the protection by parity drive on data array. Please correct me if I am wrong. Moreover, I read some posts suggesting that I should use cache: prefer for VMs and Dockers, so what's the difference between cache:only and cache: prefer for this kind of tasks? I know I am so confused on the cache drive part although I read a lot of info about it already so please forgive me..

I have the 12 disks(10 HDD+2SSD) which can be used for different tasks. What I mean task is what I would like to achieve. Tasks as below: - VM - bittorrent - Docker - appdata (I guess this is the Docker's appdata) - Personal Windows 10 backup - Unraid USB backup - Time Machine for Mac - Movies - Photos - Documents - Minecraft Server (or any other server eg Garry's Mod, L4D2...) So I am trying to assign different disks for different tasks (and shares), so that different task are using different disks to avoid scratching the disk too much. I would like to ask if this assignment is appropriate or any recommendations? 0. 2 SSDs for cache drives 1. 2 largest disks for parity 2. 1 disk for BitTorrenting (as scratch disk, will use unassigned devices plugin and not putting this disk in the array) (Cache: No) 3. 1 disk for Windows backup, USB backup, appdata backup, Time Machine (Cache: No) 4. 1 disk for Minecraft Server (Cache: Yes?Prefer?) 5. 1 disk for VM (Cache: Not sure) 6. 1 disk for Movies (Cache: Yes, for faster read?) 7. 1 disk for Photos 8. 1 disk for Home document sharing across people And I guess 6-8 can actually combine as 1 share? I am not sure if this is the appropriate way to balance the load of my tasks, and please advise on which share should I use cache, thanks! Sorry if I am not asking my question in a organized way lol

Then I will stick with SATA until I really get it runs lol

um.... Life is so hard🤦‍♂️ So basically I followed all the steps from Spaceinvader One, more or less the same, I have gone through the whole process at least 5 times, I do get it runs before, I mean at least I can change some settings, then suddenly don't know where did I screw it up. I am super new to pfsense, and just want to explore it, but somehow it doesn't like me ☹️

I thought so too when I get into the Web GUI so quick for the first time, then all the nightmare... Okay I will delete the VM and reinstall again. Do I actually have to delete the interface mentioned here (11:30)? And just another curious question: For the primary vDisk, he said you should select SATA for installation, but can choose virtio afterwards here (10:43), after changing to virtio, all things crash. I know this is not sth I should worry about, I should get the pfSense setup first lol I deleted the reservation already. And there is no switch between my mac and the pfsense. My mac is connected to the router via WiFI on the router, and the server (Unraid GUI) is connected to one of the LAN port on router. So I will directly connect my mac to the pfsense LAN port first. I guess probably every first time it should work, and then somehow screwed up without knowing the reason lol And btw, I also passthrough one of the onboard port as the WAN port for pfsense, that's why u see em0 in post my last post.

No, I didnt. I thought it is ok not to do so as it didn't ask me to do so. Now I shut down the unraid and started again. Connecting my mac directly from the pfsense's LAN, I still cannot get an IP, and cannot ping the pfsense when setting a manual ip. but the console suddenly has the following "re3: watchdog timeout". I also get this message when rebooting and at the line: Starting DNS Resolver...re3 watchdog timeout

I did tried your method, but still cannot ping nor connect to pfsense. How do I make sure that the NIC is actually correctly passing through and behaving normally without any hidden issue first?

I do get an IP for my WAN. I understand this part, so I tried both enabled DHCP and disabled DHCP on the LAN side from the pfSense, still not working. I actually tried this setup at the very beginning. And now is forgotten LOL. But still, after following your setup, it doesn't work. Then the range is 192.168.0.100-192.168.0.200 After plugging in a cable from pfSense's LAN cable to my macbook, I still get a self-assigned IP.