Well i have an wierd problem that haven't happend with 4.2 versions. Seems that smb shares are working just fine but web interface isn't because dns gets wrong ip from tower. I have vista 32bit. Tried to boot several times not luck. I have booted unraid server multiple times. Oddly enough those samba shares find correct path with \\tower but when i do ping tower ip is wrong. Probably some address dhcp gave to tower when i still had 4.2 version.

 

Only way i can use unraid's web interface now constantly is to assign constant ip to unraid and use http://ipaddress instead of http://tower because tower still points to some old ip. It's odd that samba shares work. When i use \\tower\myshare works just fine. Doesn't samba use dns for name resolving?

Try opening a command line in Vista and flush your DNS cache:

 

ipconfig /flushdns

 

You might need to "Run as Administrator" on the command line.

 

Tried it and didn't work. I still get wrong ip for tower.

Reboot or power off and on your router?

 

About a month or so ago my ISP (roadrunner on Time-Warner-Cable) decided one day to "help" me by routing any unresolved URL to its search page rather than to reutun "not found"  This broke my ability to get to my server, it also broke my ability to use VNC to connect remotely with the other PCs in my house.

 

Their "search page" (advertisement supported, of course) did have a link to click on to opt-out of the new behavior.  Until I figured out what happened and did this, lots of things stopped working.

 

Might this be what is happening to you?  One way to see is to unplug your internet connection from your cable/dsl modem, then give it a try.  That way, they will not falsely return the wrong URL.

 

Joe L.

Reboot or power off and on your router?

 

 

Actually my router that's running windows xp and internet connection sharing find correct ip from tower just fine.

F...... vista

If i ping tower even when it's powered of it says pinging Tower.mshome.net [ip it once had here] with 32 bytes of data:

 

I don't know where the hell is this vista machine finding that name. Maybe i should just revert using XP.

 

About a month or so ago my ISP (roadrunner on Time-Warner-Cable) decided one day to "help" me by routing any unresolved URL to its search page rather than to reutun "not found"   This broke my ability to get to my server, it also broke my ability to use VNC to connect remotely with the other PCs in my house.

 

Their "search page" (advertisement supported, of course) did have a link to click on to opt-out of the new behavior.   Until I figured out what happened and did this, lots of things stopped working.

 

Might this be what is happening to you?   One way to see is to unplug your internet connection from your cable/dsl modem, then give it a try.  That way, they will not falsely return the wrong URL.

 

Joe L.

 

No it's something wrong with this vista machine seems that other machines find tower just fine. Oddly this machine's dns resolves other pc's that use dhcp just fine.

Are the (one) XP machine, the (one) Vista machine, and the unRAID box the only computers on the network?  Try having only the Vista and unRAID machines on with a DNS flush on Vista.  If it's impossible to only have those two on, try flushing DNS on all machines to force everything to totally rediscover the network.

 

Am I correct in reading that your routing is being done by the XP machine and not a dedicated router? 

Are the (one) XP machine, the (one) Vista machine, and the unRAID box the only computers on the network?  Try having only the Vista and unRAID machines on with a DNS flush on Vista.  If it's impossible to only have those two on, try flushing DNS on all machines to force everything to totally rediscover the network.

 

Am I correct in reading that your routing is being done by the XP machine and not a dedicated router? 

 

Yes my routing is done by XP machine. Because still haven't found any router that offers same kind of features that cfosspeed offers. With that software saturating adsl upstream & downstream is nearly impossible. In plain english you can upload with full speed and still get max download speed.

 

And there is one vista & xp laptop on the network sometimes.

 

Did flushdns on all xp &vista machines and didn't help. I'll try to have only one vista  that has problems and unraid machine connected and lets see what happens. Wierd thing is that wrong ip was cached on that xp router when i did ipconfig /displaydns but when i did ping tower it resolved it correctly.

 

Never had this problem with any of 4.2 unraid versions. I probably try to downgrade to 4.2 build and see if this problem still exists.

 

 

Reverted to 4.2.3 but problem still existed. Really odd that this problem first started when i upgraded to 4.3. Even when i poweroff this vista machine still it gets wrong ip. Odd as hell. Tried to check all lmhosts & hosts file they are both ok no entries for tower. Also removed ipv6 didn't help.

 

In your router software, can you expire the DHCP leases forcing each one to be recreated?

In your router software, can you expire the DHCP leases forcing each one to be recreated?

 

It's xp's ICS. But i don't know how to force releasing leases with it.

That's a weird issue.  It sounds more like a DNS issue than an unRAID issue, and it just happened to occur when you did your upgrade and unRAID got assigned a new IP.  I'm not familiar with ICS, so all I can suggest is turning it off and back on.  If it's a service, stop the service and then restart it.  Even reboot the machine before restarting it.  The problem could very well go away in a few days when the DHCP lease expires and renews.

That's a weird issue.  It sounds more like a DNS issue than an unRAID issue, and it just happened to occur when you did your upgrade and unRAID got assigned a new IP.  I'm not familiar with ICS, so all I can suggest is turning it off and back on.  If it's a service, stop the service and then restart it.  Even reboot the machine before restarting it.  The problem could very well go away in a few days when the DHCP lease expires and renews.

 

Dude...problem is gone...don't know what happened but now my vista machine resolves to correct ip. Wierd stuff. I have to get my self rid of this awful vista