Hello, thanks in advance!

 

My motherboard is an Asus P5B-VM DO. I can boot the machine, but I can't "see" the tower on my network. Typing "ifconfig eth0" at the command prompt gives me this:

 

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:60:6F:E4:0A

UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overrruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2970 (2.9 KiB)

Base address: 0xd880 Memory:fe8c0000-fe8e0000

 

I'm not sure where to go from here. In BIOS, I only have the option to enable or disable my ethernet.

 

On my gigabit switch, the connection for the tower is greenlit (as if there is a machine on the line) when the tower is plugged into it.

 

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

One other thing: Is there any way to access the GUI via the box directly? Or must I be on a networked machine? I would love to get the build and file transfers going ASAP.

 

 

The second line of the ifconfig output should list the IP address assigned (called "inet addr").  Is this line missing?

RE: Second line giving me the IP address.

 

No, it doesn't list an IP address. The information given is exactly what is displayed. Any suggestions?

I think the next thing he will want to see is your syslog.  Could you attach it?

 

Whoa. I'm getting closer, maybe! 

 

Okay, I know it can get tiring dealing w/someone who creates their own problems, but it seems I was led astray by the advice of a long ago post to input "ifconfig eth0" because when I input simply "ifconfig", I receive this as the second line of the "lo" section (it seems the information is split between "eth0" and "lo"):

 

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

 

On my Mac (yeah, I'm a Mac guy), I inputted the following into my browser to no avail:

 

//tower

 

\\tower

 

http://tower

 

http://127.0.0.1

 

The first three got me the Tower online store (I thought they went bankrupt). But at least it seems my ethernet is working!

 

Let me fiddle some more....

 

 

It's looking like the server is not getting it's IP address from a DHCP server.  Does your network include a router with a built-in DHCP server?

 

On a Mac, unfortunately I don't believe you can type "\\tower" in the browser address bar because the name is a NETBIOS name which Mac's don't want to associate with (it would make that Mac guy in the commercials look really silly).  I think you have to enter the IP address in the address bar.  I guess it's time we break down and actually buy a Mac to do some testing with

 

You can get the syslog by logging in at the console and then type this:

 

cp  /var/log/syslog  /boot/config/syslog.txt

 

Then plug the Flash into your Mac and look for the file 'syslog.txt' in the 'config' folder.

Here's my syslog. Thanks for taking a look.

 

 

Looks to me like DHCP is not enabled in the router.

 

 

Bill

Looks to me like DHCP is not enabled in the router.

 

 

Bill

 

Yep.  lungnut- what is your network config?  If you don't use a DHCP server then you'll have to set an IP address manually.  This is fairly simple to do.  What you need to do is edit the file 'network.cfg' in the 'config' folder on the flash.  This can be done either directly via the console using the vi editor (in this case the file path is /boot/config/network.cfg).  Or you can plug the flash into your PC and edit the file on your PC.

 

The default contents of the file are:

 

USE_DHCP=yes
IPADDR=
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1

You want to change to:

 

USE_DHCP=no
IPADDR=<desired IP address, eg., 192.168.1.10>
NETMASK=255.255.255.0 <change if you need to>
GATEWAY=<your gateway ip address>

 

The NETMASK and GATEWAY address can be found by looking at the network settings for you Mac.

 

 

Whaddya know! I'm in there! Now let's see if I can figure this out from here. Thanks a lot, guys!

 

Just so it's clear, in case anyone else finds themselves in a similar situation, I did exactly as Tom prescribed, manually assigning an address. I accessed the network.cfg file via my MacBook Pro and used TextEdit to input the correct values.

 

Now I'm in the process of UNRAID "mounting" my seven 750GB drives (all attached via the motherboard). I suppose this process will take several hours, right?

 

If all goes well, I hope to be adding 8 additional 750GB drives next month. Woo Hoo! 

in the hosts file in private:etc you can make an entry for your unraid machine. For example:

 

192.168.1.1 nas

 

This will allow you to mount the shares with

 

smb://user@nas

 

Roland

I was just about to ask this same question. With my 100Mbit router I had it all working with my Mac but I wanted to go straight from my Mac to the server via Gigabit but didn't know how to manually assign an ip. Now I do so will try tonight. I love this unRAID although had it a week and filled 2Tb already ripping my TV boxsets.

 

Is there a way for the MAc to automatically show the server when it boots up? I have to turn my unRAID server off each night and use wake on lan in the morning but I have to keep saying Connect to Server from Finder. I hoped it would just pop up like an external drive.

 

Cheers,

Ste