I was running an old 4.5 unraid release and then I got Mac OS Lion and the timemachine backup stopped working.  So I have updated to 5.0b12a and I have some issues.  I am looking for a setup document of some type to configure unraid for AFP.  I can turn AFP on on the GUI, but when I try to map a drive I get an error "he server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again." the server does exist (I can map to it using SMB) but it doesn't respond to AFP.

 

I have added the usual user to the users list, and added both disks to the user share.  Still no joy.

 

I would appreciate any pointers or documentation that would help me setup AFP 5.0b12a. 

thanks

M-

Post a screen shot of the share configuration.

here is one of two

here is two of two

Please show the detailed config of the share used for TM.

The problem is that I cannot log in to view either disk1 or disk2 using AFP.  I want to setup the unraid such that I can see one large disk or two smaller disks.  I want to use the connect to server function under finder to 'map a drive' to the disk1 or disk2 in unraid.  I have three 2T disks: one is parity, the other two are data drives.  I started with a much earlier version of unraid and upgraded (following the instructions) to 5.0beta12a.

 

M-

Set up a user share for time machine. Select (TimeMachine) in the AFP drop down and turn SMB off. Make a user that TM will use to log in.

It is inadvisable to use disk shares with AFP. Make a user share that only includes the single disk.

So the steps I have done:

1. On the Settings page I turned on AFP , NFS off, SMB off

2. on the Settings page I go to Share settings and enable user shares with included disk(s) = disk1

3. A shares tab shows up at the top and I click on it and all the shares I have in the previous picture show up

4. One of the items under the share tab is "user"

5. I go to my mac pro under finder I select 'go' 'connect to server' and type afp://192.168.0.9/user

6. I hit enter and I get the error message

The server “192.168.0.9” may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again.

I did create a user 'midnight' with the same password as before after upgrading.

On the settings page leave SMB on in order access the flash drive. Turn SMB off for the TM share. Did you enable AFP (TimeMachine) on the share?

Okay I think I have a handle on it now.  In the older version I had two shares "disk1" and "disk2" that corresponded to each disk.  I backed up a bunch of macs to disk1 and disk2.  Then I upgraded to 5.0beta12a.  All the shares showed up when I turned on the user share on disk1 and disk2.  So now under settings share settings I have 'yes' and one disk 'disk1'.  then the shares tab pops up and I create a new share called 'user' that is just 'disk1' with the TimeMachine export option.  I can now map my macs to user.  However Snow leaopard backs up just fine but OS Lion gets the error "The back was not performed because an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk.  The problem may be temporary.  Try again later to back up.  If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk".

 

Thanks for the help.

M-

Make a TM user share. For that share select AFP (TimeMachine) and SMB off. Click on the share name on the Shares tab to modify that particular shares setting.

Okay I shared one disk 'disk1' as 'user'.  Then turned off smb and set the selection to timemachine.  Opened the drive in time machine and started a back.  Got the same error as before.  Thanks.

K-

Make a user share not a disk share. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Manual#Shares

This is my TM disk. It's directly to a disk (with it excluded in share settings) to improve performance by 30%.

 

Disk config:

 

User config:

 

The erased bits are the username, they are the same in both images. I.e. MyUser1.

I hooked up an external drive and got the same error so it is not unraid.  Geez I hate hard drives..

Whats the GUI you are using... it doesn't look like the web GUI (http://192.168.0.9)

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12698.0