I've managed to get unraid to boot, but can't access the web interface. Once I get to the login: prompt and type root, all I get is:

 

root@tower:~#

 

typing //tower into the browser either takes me to the tower records site (firefox) or the google search page for tower (IE). 

run telnet tower just closes after about 5 seconds without showing anything

 

I'm using a Netgear GA311 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, and a gigabit airport extreme for the router.  I'm sure the issue isn't with the cable or anything like that.  DHCP is enabled.  Is there any way to check that the unraid box is getting an IP from the prompt?  sorry, Im not a linux guy.

 

your ISP is trying to help you... you router is looking on the internet for "tower" and instead of failing and your router looking internally it is instead putting you on where it thinks you wanted to go...

 

Type http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in your browser instead, where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your unRaid server.

 

Joe L.

There are also other possibilities:

 

* You have different workgroup names (i.e. MSHOME)

* Your NIC or router aren't making a connection (physical or virtual)

 

What NICs are you running?  You list one, what is the other?  There are some that don't play well with unraid.

 

 

Bill

The other machines are a macpro and a macbook (connected through 802.11n).  The same "going to tower records" behavior occurred using either osx or winxp (bootcamp) on both machines.  The workgroup issue might be the problem.  The ident file gives:

 

# Generated names

NAME=Tower

COMMENT="Media server"

WORKGROUP=Mshome

localMaster=no

smbPorts="445 139"

timeZone=GMT+8

 

I should change all my machines to Mshome as a first step?

ugh.  changing the machine's workgroup to Mshome helps nothing.  So far as I could tell, the machine was not getting an ip from the router (the mac address for the lan card did not show up in the dhcp list).  I tried setting up the network.cfg file on the card manually, hoping that would help, but seems to have accomplished nothing as well. 

 

I changed network.cfg to:

 

# Generated network settings

USE_DHCP=no

IPADDR=192.168.1.170

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

GATEWAY=192.168.1.1

 

Can someone please give me some more solutions to try? I am completely out of ideas.

It is time to post your syslog.  As mentioned earlier, it could be that the NIC in your unraid isn't recognized.  I have the same one, but on the PC side of the connection.

 

 

Bill

I'm wondering if this is "unique" to Mac OS X? I too am unable to reach my Unraid machine via http://tower - I have to use the IP address. Similarly for a Qnap NAS (which I will soon be selling  )

 

I am able to browse both via the network browser using smb:// however (e.g. smb://tower ) 

Is there any way to check that the unraid box is getting an IP from the prompt?  sorry, Im not a linux guy.

 

Me either, but the command you want is (from a Linux console prompt):  ifconfig eth0

That will show you the MAC address and local IP, as well as other stuff.  Your syslog will show most of the same, plus the driver used, and the speed of the connection.  It would help if you could attach your syslog.

 

So far as I could tell, the machine was not getting an ip from the router (the mac address for the lan card did not show up in the dhcp list).

 

This may be the real problem, that the router is not seeing your server.  Are you seeing the appropriate lights blinking on both ends of that cable?  Have you tried a different cable, or had the cable tested?  Are you sure this NIC works, have you ever seen this Netgear work successfully?  The ifconfig command will help determine if it is working, at least internally.  Setting identical workgroup names is important, and getting the correct local IP is also, but first the router has to see this machine.