May 14, 201214 yr Anyone? The SNAP UI is not working very well at all. I do not use it. I have gone back to the manual SNAP system using the script. It appears to be working properly. The detection of a file system on the drives by SNAP seems to be backwards/confused with NTFS. I did a quick test with a Reiserfs formatted drive and did not have any luck with the SNAP UI either. I also found that Linux/unraid does not recognize a NTFS partition on a drive that is connected to a SATA port so SNAP thinks the drive does not have a partition (hence no file system) and won't mount it. SNAP does recognize and work with a USB connected drive with a NTFS file system. For the time being just use the SNAP script without the UI. Be sure in your after shared scripts, that you unmount a removable drive before you remove it: /boot/config/plugins/snap/snap.sh -M ShareName If you don't do this, you may corrupt files. I forgot this and had to repair some files on my removable media.
May 14, 201214 yr I just connected my usb hdd to my desktop and then safely ejected it. Plugging in to my unraid machine, it still doesnt see it in SNAP It does in unmenu: @dlandon you say snap does recognize and work with usb connected drive, so why doesnt it with mine? The manual way of using snap how do i do this? And if its not working, why doesnt queek bring up any update? Nor can i find replies here anymore of him... (in this topic) Help needed Thx
May 14, 201214 yr Read the first page about SNAP here and use the script commands. Don't use the UI. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5904.0 Queeg is asleep at the switch.
May 14, 201214 yr And do i use THE snap version from here of there? Will there come a plugin upgrade?
May 14, 201214 yr And do i use THE snap version from here of there? Will there come a plugin upgrade? The plugin script is fine. Actually I believe both are the same version. Install the plugin and ignore the plugin UI. SNAP will be installed in /boot/config/plugins/snap. The go script will start it. Telnet into your server and use the SNAP script to get SNAP to work with your drives. Once you've done that you can add your commands to the hotPlugAfterShareEvent script. I've sent a message to queeg through his on-line store. Let's see if we can get his attention.
May 14, 201214 yr great! the hdd is mounted and shared! I also see this in the SNAP GUI however, i can access the drive, but i cannot copy between a drive from the array and the mounted drive.. It says its copy protected but its not.. copy + paste doesnt work.. how come? i see all my array drives, and the mounted usb drive
May 14, 201214 yr great! the hdd is mounted and shared! I also see this in the SNAP GUI however, i can access the drive, but i cannot copy between a drive from the array and the mounted drive.. It says its copy protected but its not.. copy + paste doesnt work.. how come? i see all my array drives, and the mounted usb drive You will need the NTFS-3G driver for R/W access to the USB drive. Search other forums fo help on this.
May 14, 201214 yr Can't this NTFS-3G R/W driver be installed through packet manager? I put the NTFS-3G driver in the 'extra' folder on the flash. Don't remember why I did that or where I got the driver from, but it works. It will be installed on boot up if it is in the 'extra' folder. The driver I am using is: ntfs-3g-2011.1.15-i486.1.txz
May 14, 201214 yr Can't this NTFS-3G R/W driver be installed through packet manager? I put the NTFS-3G driver in the 'extra' folder on the flash. Don't remember why I did that or where I got the driver from, but it works. It will be installed on boot up if it is in the 'extra' folder. The driver I am using is: ntfs-3g-2011.1.15-i486.1.txz Where do i get that? Shouldnt this be in THE snap plugin... Wat use if you can plug in an USB hdd but cant write to it?
May 14, 201214 yr Can't this NTFS-3G R/W driver be installed through packet manager? I put the NTFS-3G driver in the 'extra' folder on the flash. Don't remember why I did that or where I got the driver from, but it works. It will be installed on boot up if it is in the 'extra' folder. The driver I am using is: ntfs-3g-2011.1.15-i486.1.txz Where do i get that? Shouldnt this be in THE snap plugin... Wat use if you can plug in an USB hdd but cant write to it? Search the forums for a link to the driver. There is a NTFS driver built into unraid, but it is read only. You need this driver for r/w capability.
May 14, 201214 yr Ok, i installeer THE driver from unmenu Now i am finally able to copyright to THE disk, but iets incredible slow . 1,3mb/s 130min for 8 gb Any Ideas?
May 15, 201214 yr I'm having some problems with SNAP. I originally tried version 0.47 before finding the new plugin version. I installed that the other day and it seemed to work ok. However, now it crashes chrome whenever I go to the plugin page. It seems to be triggered by hovering over the drive listings. I tried uninstalling and removing all the files and loading it again but it still locks up chrome. Reinstalling seems to be an issue now as well because it tries to download the new version from the wrong place (I solved this be removing the "-1" from the .plg in notepad) Also, now when I try and use SNAP from the command line is says that the partition doesn't exist. When I use -listDeviceInfo it says that none of the drives are used by either unRAID or SNAP. I'm using unRAID v5.0b14 If I just want to automatically mount and share a drive that is installed in the server at boot time, is there another way I can do this? (Sorry, I'm pretty new to unRaid and linux)
May 15, 201214 yr I could not get SNAP to work on my system I removed all other Plugins (unMenu, Simple features and Plex) and still could not get it to work. For some strange reason, I always had to telnet in to install SNAP, a reboot wouldn't do it. I do have SNAP in /boot/config/plugins/Snap-5.0-1.plg I think I will wait till there is an update.
May 19, 201214 yr Unable to install: Okay, it worked later. Must have been a temporary aberration with code.google.com. root@Tower:~# installplg /boot/config/plugins/Snap-5.0-1.plg installing plugin: Snap-5.0-1 file /tmp/preSnapInstallCleanup.sh: successfully wrote INLINE file contents /bin/bash /tmp/preSnapInstallCleanup.sh ... success file /tmp/prepareForSnapInstall.sh: successfully wrote INLINE file contents /bin/bash /tmp/prepareForSnapInstall.sh ... --2012-05-19 13:34:45-- http://code.google.com/p/unraid-snap/downloads/detail?name=LatestSnapVersion Resolving code.google.com (code.google.com)... 74.125.235.7, 74.125.235.8, 74.125.235.9, ... Connecting to code.google.com (code.google.com)|74.125.235.7|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Error: Unable to download LatestSnapVersion information from googlecode. 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: `/tmp/latestSnapVer' [ <=> ] 9,784 --.-K/s in 0.03s 2012-05-19 13:34:47 (355 KB/s) - `/tmp/latestSnapVer' saved [9784] success file /tmp/postSnapInstallCleanup.sh: already exists /bin/bash /tmp/postSnapInstallCleanup.sh ... success plugin successfully installed root@Tower:~# Note the 'unable to download LatestSnapVersion information from googlecode'.
May 26, 201214 yr Finally, i got snap working. Heres how for those noob like me who cant get it work. 1. delete snap folder : \\tower\flash\config\plugins\snap or /mnt/boot/config/plugins/snap. You can use from telnet : rm -r /mnt/boot/config/plugins/snap. this to make sure no conflict with latest snap. 2. follow the installation step in the fist post Installation: 1. Download the Snap-5.0-1.plg.zip (below) and unzip it. 2. Place it in /boot/config/plugins Example: In windows you can use file explorer to copy the .plg file to your unraid machine here: \\tower\flash\config\plugins 3. Then telnet into your unRAID server and type this command to install the plugin (or just reboot): installplg /boot/config/plugins/Snap-5.0-1.plg 4. After it installs you should be able to run the web page. Open a browser to this address and click the SNAP button. //tower/Settings 3. when you in the snap setting page (http://tower/Settings/snap#tabs-1), click +Add. there will be 2 textbox, Serial Number and Share Name. put any name(as long as its not similar name to your other share name. to easily see your other share name, goto //tower. what you see there is your other share name) to share name to easily recognize the usb drive. 4. for serial number, we need to find the drive serial number. (assuming you have unmenu working)to do this, goto unmenu>my main. most probably, you will see a plus icon with HPA? below it. thats your usb drive. in the id column of the usb drive row there are a -0:0 link. click it to configure disk. copy the serial number value. your usb drive serial number is "serial number value" + "-0:0". for my flash drive, it is 200517410109F6A2A6BC-0:0. paste your usb drive serial number(200517410109F6A2A6BC-0:0) in the Serial number textbox. 5. submit and your usb drive is mounted. 6. check your usb drive by browsing to \\tower\. you will see your usb drive share name. if you try to clik the usb drive, you will get permission error. as of now, im trying to set nobody as the owner of the shares. to queeg. its been weeks for me trying to figure out how to use snap. when you mention that snap is hotplug, i got the impression that all you got todo(after install snap) is to plug the usb device and be done with it. the "user is required to assign serial number and share name" is not really obvious until few other old threads i read. plus, there is no mention that you have to assign serial number and share name in the plugin release thread. in the old release thread, you mention "NOTE: New installation procedures as of 0.47." which create an impression that different release of snap requires different installation procedure. i believe, if you state that user have to assign serial number and share name BEFORE hotplug feature is enable, that would have help. all this time, i was under the impression that my installation is problematic, thats why hotplug feature is not working. anyway, thanks for your wonderful effort. thanks. thank you thank you also had a bit of a problem figuring it out (maybe did'nt read properly) but now working fine hmm.. got happy too soon, anyone got ntfs r/w working i did download the module through unmenu and cannot delete, i can copy and read but no delete.... any help ? thanks sorry for any time wasted on this post cause reboot fixes 98% of the time so now all good and r/w working...
May 27, 201214 yr Ok, i installeer THE driver from unmenu Now i am finally able to copyright to THE disk, but iets incredible slow . 1,3mb/s 130min for 8 gb Any Ideas? Anyone?
May 28, 201214 yr Ok, i installeer THE driver from unmenu Now i am finally able to copyright to THE disk, but iets incredible slow . 1,3mb/s 130min for 8 gb Any Ideas? Anyone? How are you copying? From Windows to unraid with cut and paste? Robocopy? Rsynch? SynchToy? If over a network, what is your network speed? Is the SNAP drive NTFS? Give a little more information so someone can help you.
May 29, 201214 yr Ok, i installeer THE driver from unmenu Now i am finally able to copyright to THE disk, but iets incredible slow . 1,3mb/s 130min for 8 gb Any Ideas? Anyone? How are you copying? From Windows to unraid with cut and paste? Robocopy? Rsynch? SynchToy? If over a network, what is your network speed? Is the SNAP drive NTFS? Give a little more information so someone can help you. Copying is being done from unraid array drive to THE plugged in USB hdd. I gave THE command copy and paste from à Windows machine wireless , Wifi. I have à gigabit network , wicht isnt THE problem.. Cause Copying isnt going over THE network
May 29, 201214 yr Copying is being done from unraid array drive to THE plugged in USB hdd. I gave THE command copy and paste from à Windows machine wireless , Wifi. I have à gigabit network , wicht isnt THE problem.. Cause Copying isnt going over THE network I;m afraid that your last statement is incorrect. If you invoke the copy command at your client machine, then all of the data is transferred from the source to the client. It is then copied to the destination from that client. Your copied data is going across the wireless network in both directions. Assuming that you have a good 11g wireless network signal, then your data transfer rate would probably be around 3MB/sec. Edit: I see that you're reporting 1.3MB/sec (I presume you mean MegaBytes, as opposed to Megabits), which suggests, to me, that your wireless signal at your client machine is not as good as it could be. Or, perhaps, your USB 2 device is only achieving full speed, not high speed. If you wish to move data around on the unRAID server, then it is much more efficient to do it in a telnet session connected to the server. If you want to avoid learning Linux commands, then you can use midnight commander (mc) in your telnet session.
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