All,

 

I've been running unRAID 4.7 for a few weeks with no issues.  Last night I added a APC BACK-UPS Pro along with the apcupsd and clean power down packages (installed using unmenu).  I know it shouldn't be related, but today I'm having issues reading from the samba share that I have setup from both my macs (both running lion) and my windows 7 htpc.  In an attempt to troubleshoot I removed the clean powerdown script from re-installing on reboot.  I've attached the syslog and would very much appreciate any help that can be provided.

 

I thought about trying an NFS share, but it seems weird that samba was working flawlessly for several weeks and now I have issues.

 

There is one line in the syslog that may be of concern, but I don't know enough to tell...

 

Nov  2 19:18:52 unraid emhttp: shcmd (26): killall -HUP smbd

 

syslog-2011-11-02.txt

The syslog does not show anything wrong. Does the syslog include a failure event? Is the server set to "Local Master": "Yes"?

Yes, its set to local master.

I resolved the issue...I'm an idiot.  I somehow messed up the chmod command I had in my go file so my file permissions were incorrect.

Is the server set to "Local Master": "Yes"?

 

What is the purpose of this?  Why should it be "yes", and why is it optional?  I ask because I changed mine to "no" previously, and have samba access issues now, but I'm not sure they are related.

 

thanks

I think its for the Macs. I don't know if Macs will become local master. If all windows machines are shutdown the unRAID must be the local master. My Macs don't have any problems with this set to yes.

I'm sorry, i still don't understand what it's for.  You said it's for macs, but unRAID must be master if all windows machines are shut down, which doesn't make sense to me. 

 

If I'm running only win7 machines on my network, do I need this set to yes, or no, or does it really matter in my case?

 

 

I think what he means is that if the only client connected to the UnRaid server is a Mac then UnRaid must be the Local Master. I have mine set to NO and I think I don't have SAMBA issues unless the weird thing that we experience is related to SAMBA issues. I also have tried to look into this local master thingy but for the time being I am leaving it to NO.

If only Macs are on then it must be yes. It should not matter if a Windows machine is active on the network.

Thank you both, I'll leave it to no for now also.  One day I'll try to understand what it actually does, but right now, I have too many other things to worry about