This is my first shot at setting up and unraid server(or any server). I browsed/searched the forum and did not find anything that helped.

Setting up the flash drive and booting was successful.

I am using this configuration tutorial. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Configuration_Tutorial

Verifying network connectivity works properly, and gives me the ip address 192.168.1.115

The trouble starts at step 4(Configuration With the Server Management Utility)

I am unable to access the server via //tower, http://tower, //192.168.1.115, http://192.168.1.115, and I tried to connect from two different computers.

I am able to successfully ping yahoo.com, and another computer on the network.

first try was with a dynamic ip, when that did not work i set up a static ip and the  result was the same.

I was unable to get a syslog.

Setup is a alivenf6g-dvi, athlon 64x2, 2G ram, 2x WD20EARS, 1x WD10EADS

THanks.

Have you tried pinging the IP of the tower itself or pinging "tower" and see what comes back?

 

Shawn

Good idea. I just did it, and was able to ping tower successfully from two computers.

Last night I tried something with the hosts file, though I can not remember exactly what, also tried opening up the DMZ for that ip.There is a good chance that I did not not do either of those things right.

unRAID is not secure. I would not put it in a DMZ... that is asking for all kinds of trouble.

Yes, I am aware of that. I figured it would not to any good, but was worth a shot.

Also, I am running the latest 5.0 beta. I tried the 4.7 stable, and was not able to get an IP address. I didn't mess with it anymore just went back to the 5.0.

I had something similar happen to me, it was caused by gparted (ubuntu) placing symbols after the usb label, when i formatted it: UNRAID/>/\ 

 

Correcting this allowed me to connect, i also needed to update my hosts file to be able to connect using tower.

 

have you checked your usb is labeled correctly?

I formatted the USB using windows 7, and I named the label UNRAID. I have a gparted live cd, maybe I will take a crack at it with that.

probably best not to use gparted, because as i mentioned it sometimes adds crap to the end of the label, but ubuntu showed the label correctly, so i guess it might be worth looking to see what gpardted list the label as, maybe W7 does the same thing.

 

good luck.

 

 

 

 

IN gparted, it shows the label as UNRAID, nothing more.

What does the terminal show?

terminal in windows shows the label as UNRAID, but I edited it anyway, just in case. still labeled UNRAID.

I meant the console. The screen attached to the server.

..... or pinging "tower" and see what comes back?

 

Shawn

 

I missed this part the first time around. I did try pinging tower, and it was good, same results as the ip address.

I meant the console. The screen attached to the server.

 

ok, how do I get that info?

I am away from home for work today, so for kicks I hooked my laptop up to the router with a lan cable, and booted up using the same usb drive I have been using at home. And this time I was able to  connect to the laptop with the ip address. What sort of hardware could cause things not to work on the other computer?

 

I meant the console. The screen attached to the server.

 

I'd do what dgaschk suggests and report back what the unraid terminal shows after it's booted, it should show:

Tower login:

 

you also mention that you "did something with the hosts file" did you make sure you put these back to how they were?

 

Oh, right. I thought he meant get disk info from terminal.

When I boot, it shows tower login: Then i enter 'root' and it goes to root@tower(I think)

Yes, I reverted hosts back to normal, and then tried changing it a different way, no joy on either.

DHCP is extremely reliable you are far more likely to mess things up with a static IP address. If you need a fixed IP address make a permanent reservation in the router/DHCP-server. At this point, given your comments about not being sure what you've done, I would start the process from the beginning with a flash reformat and fresh unRAID install. Report success or problems here before you take any action.

when I tried a static IP, I used dhcp reservation, and changed the info on the flash drive.

I rebooted the router, and now I am able to connect to the box i have set up for the server.

thanks for the help!

You should not be editing config files on the flash drive. Use the UnRAID webGUI to make network changes.