August 7, 201114 yr Just updated my mac mini and macbook air, which come with Lion now, and for the first time I was trying to watch a movie with the family - the original star wars, ripped from DVD (yes, bad timing with the bluray just around the corner, but never mind). Movies are stored on a 'movies' share on unraid, which is split across three of my data drives. Lauched plex but I was getting no sound. This is something to do with plex and/or my amp. So I give up and decide I'll just play it in VLC. Open finder, browse to 'movies', open my 'star wars' folder and its empty. Nothing there. Odd.. So I try on my Macbook air - same thing, nothing there. Both logging in as the same user. So I try connecting to Tower as root. Same thing, empty folder. Some other folders were also empty, but others had files in. Hmm, getting concerned now that something terrible happened when I was transferring my movies across when first setting up unRAID, and half my movies are now lost. So I use the built in unRAID file browser, browse to disk 1, movies, star wars - there is my .m4a file right as rain!? Then I go back to plex and just press play on Star Wars - it plays! No idea how it can play a file that the finder cannot see, on the same computer, but there you go. In the end I dug the DVD out and watched it, but whats going on?
August 7, 201114 yr Author hmm, using the file browser from the web interface, looks like any movie on disk1/movies isn't showing up in finder - the folder shows up, but nothing inside. But movies on disk2/movies show up fine?
August 7, 201114 yr Author share setup: movies allocation - high water split level - 1 disks included - blank disks excluded - blank share as SMB - export, read only exclusions - root, me, mac mini valid users - root, me, guest TV share is identical except for split level = 2, and files show up from both disk 1 and disk 2
August 7, 201114 yr Author ok, after going slightly crazy, and having other problems with root working but other named users not working, I renamed my smb-extra.conf to something else so it wasn't being reference, and rebooted. Seems ok now. I think there was a conflict in the usernames in smb-extra and the unRAID shares section Now to wait until the file permissions problem pops up which was the reason for using smb-extra in the first place..
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