Today I received my MD1500/LL from Tom.  I can't get connected to it.  I run Vista Ultimate with wired gigabit network using SMC 8 port switches.  SMC Switch indicates a gigabit connection speed but shows no activity.  Tower does not show up in my network map.  I installed telnet 'CLIENT' and telnet opens and says connecting to tower but then disappears so fast I cannot read what it says but I assume it cannot connect.  I've tried //tower in IE7 but just get internet web pages.  I have set the workgroup to match my networked PCs.  I have confirmed that the flash Tom sent has UNRAID label.  I have connected VGA cable to tower and it seems to be booting fine--scrolling stops at the tower login.  I've changed cables between tower and SMC switch.  What else should I have done?

 

Dan

Forget it.  I managed to assign fixed IP address and now it works. 

 

Well, I still cannot type //tower into address bar of IE7 and get to unraid mgmt utility for some reason; I also cannot telnet to tower.  However, if I type in the IP address (which I assigned) I can access the unraid server mgmt utility. ??

You might have a different subnet than Tom assumes.  You can fix it by adding two lines ot the end of your "go" script.

 

It is described here:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1247

 

Joe L.

Tom, thanks for the reply.  Well I tried your suggestion but I musta used  the wrong numbers because it broke my ability to access the tower mgt utility via IP address.  So, I undid that, and to the best of my knowledge everything else I had tried.  So, I think i am back to where I started except for the manually assigned IP address.  Now I can log in both via //tower and IPADDR in brower address box; haven't tried telnet.  And, I can't figure out why it works now and did not before.  So, I guess I'll just have to see if it holds together or is just some kinda flaky problem that comes and goes.  By the way, the IP Addr of my tower is 192.168.1.82; gateway address is  192.168.1.254; Netmask address is 255.255.255.0.  I can't tell if those addresses require the GO file script adds or not; maybe you can tell me whether they are needed or not and which numbers to put into the two line adds.  Anyway, I am now able to transfer data to the tower drives and am in the midst of that, so I will probably wait until I have done most of that before I experiment anymore.  Thanks a lot!

The two lines you would need to add to your "go" script are:

 

echo nameserver 192.168.1.254 >/etc/resolv.conf

echo 192.168.1.82 tower >>/etc/hosts

 

They would be invoked the next time you reboot your server and take effect then.

 

You can also type those same two lines at the command prompt, after logging in as "root" either via telnet, or from the system console

The "nameserver" line needs the address of your gateway (router), and the second line for /etc/hosts needs the same IP address as you hard-coded to the server.

 

From your PC you should be able to telnet IPADDR or telnet tower.

 

Joe L.

Joe,  those are the numbers I  added and saved to the GO file; here's what the file looked like when I saved it:

 

#!/bin/bash

# Start the Management Utility

/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &

echo nameserver 192.168.1.254 >/etc/resolv.conf

echo 192.168.1.82 tower >>/etc/hosts

 

maybe I had/have spaces where I shouldn't have before or after the >> it's hard for me to tell whether there are spaces or not and where.  So, I'll try again later.

 

Thanks again!

 

Dan

grandan-

Windows Networking does sometimes take a long time to recognize new computers on the network.  Has to do with browser election.  Also, I have seen strange behavior with Vista (surprise) where servers come/go from Network Places.  We have not tracked this down yet.

 

Do you have a dhcp server?  If so, you should be able to set set "Obtain IP Address Automatically" to Yes.  From the console you can type the command 'ifconfig' to see if an IP address got assigned.

 

Joe, bubbQ, RobJ-

Why is it necessary to make an entry in /etc/resolv.conf?  If you have a dhcp server, this should be generated automatically.  If you are using static IP, then isn't it just necessary to specify the correct Gateway address?

Similarly, why an entry in /etc/hosts?  Isn't this used only when resolving IP addresses on the local system?

 

Well, with my far inferior Linux knowledge, I feel honored to be listed in such illustrious company, but I have to cop out and say it's all BubbaQ's fault!  He's to blame for the improvement to my system from these lines!  I can only add anecdotal evidence that they do help, in certain situations.  You've already seen the thread linked above (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1247), and how it knocked 21 seconds off my telnet login time, and others seem to concur.  Also see this thread:  http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1568.0, where it helped dramatically with transfer speed.  I don't know enough to explain it, or whether just one of the lines is responsible for the improvement.  I wondered about the Hosts file, but because it worked, I did not investigate further.

 

It does look like something is relying on the (wrong) value in resolv.conf, instead of the correct gateway value.

 

Tom,

 

Thanks for dropping in.  Yep, I'm pretty much mystified at this point.  I have 3 PCs on my home net, not counting tower.  Two are Vista Ultimate on wired gigabit, which have finally 'found' Tower and my wife's notebook on G wireless, and Vista Home, which has yet to find Tower.  I can't figure it out; I don't know that I changed anything to enable recognition.  Anyway, I will use Tower mostly to stream HD/SD movies (VMC + MyMovies) from my HTPC and to be music server plus backup device even though I have RAID1 on both Ultimate PCs.  I have a couple of XBOX360s that serve as extenders for music mostly for MBR and Kitchen, so I will have to figure out if I can get them to work properly when I move my music files to Tower.

 

Currently I am copying files from an unreliable RAID5 e-SATA box to Tower, hopefully before the proprietary port multiplier card fails again (I'm on my third in less than 6 months--at least so far the replacements are under warranty, but the Tech Spt folk are asking Q's like I kill these cards intentionally).  It looks like it will take at least another couple of days based on the ~8MB/s write pace.  At this time, all seems stable and I am hoping for a reliable storage server given the unreliable history of an e-SATA box made by a very recognizable case manufacturer (which by the way has extremely poor customer technical support!!).  I'm new to this Linux stuff but am eager to learn from the masters.

 

Tower is the only device on my net that I have had to assign IP addr manually.  It could be that since Vista doesn't 'find' new devices very well, or at least very quickly, that DHCP assigned Tower an addr but I couldn't tell since it was not 'found' in the Network Map.  I am short on patience and long on action, so I coulda assigned prematurely.

 

Grasshopper Dan