Very new to Servers, Need a bit of help

[Nothingbutkale]

So I just finished building my first home server and installed Unraid. 

I followed the guide, watched a bunch of videos on YT and came across a strange problem. 

Since my keyboard was attached to the server I used my Surface to do most of the initial setup. 

The array is building as we speak, but something strange is happening. 

I can log into the Unraid GUI from my Surface but can't even see the network on my main PC. 

 

Any guidance?> 

 

[JonathanM]

What do you get when you browse to the address that works on your Surface using your main PC?

[Nothingbutkale]

I used tower.local on the surface. 

 

I have tried both tower.local and the IP both dont seem to work on the PC. 

 

[JonathanM]

Can you ping the IP from the PC?

[Nothingbutkale]

Nope, 
Tried the good old fashion cmd ping and nothing but request time outs

[JonathanM]

Same subnet? Can you ping the router IP from the PC and Unraid's console?

[Nothingbutkale]

Yes I can, 
Here is what I did and maybe you can tell me if I got anything wrong.... (Kinda out of my depth but enjoying learning about it)

Main PC 
Cmd >> Ipconfig ping the IPV4 address

Surface (device that has my Unraid GUI open)
CMD >> Use the same address from the Main PC's IPV4 and ping. 

 

I am getting a response on both.
 

[JonathanM]

If the main PC is using windows of some flavor, is the network connection set as private or public?

[Nothingbutkale]

The connection set as private with "Turn on network discovery" turned on

[JonathanM]

Maybe it would help to chart out your IP schema, and which can and can't ping each other.

 

Router IP (most likely the gateway address)

Surface IP

Workstation IP

Unraid IP

 

At the command prompt of the Surface, workstation and Unraid, check which ones can and can't be reached. You should end up with a list of which devices can successfully reach each IP.

 

e.g.

from the command prompt of the Surface - pings router, workstation and Unraid OK

from the command prompt of the Workstation - pings router, Surface, but not Unraid

from the command prompt of Unraid - pings router, Surface, but not Workstation

 

or something like that.

[Nothingbutkale]

Hey

 

Thanks for all the help I figured it out. 

 

So if anyone was wondering here is what the problem was. 

 

Your idea of mapping out everything made me think of how my network is set up. 

 

ISP's modem/router hardwired to my pc and a mesh network. 

The reason I couldn't see it from the PC and the Surface device was that they were technically connected to different paths, 

(Dont know the technical terms for it but in layman's terms the PC is higher on the river than the WIFI) 

 

So since the server was connecting to the network from downstream the main PC couldn't connect to the branch.

Long story short 

I should have made sure they were both connected to the same router XD ..... 

 

[JonathanM]

I suspected that was the case, but since you didn't volunteer your local IP addresses, all I could do is point you there.

 

41 minutes ago, Nothingbutkale said:

(Dont know the technical terms for it but in layman's terms the PC is higher on the river than the WIFI) 

 

20 hours ago, JonathanM said:

Same subnet?

That's the question I asked, and you just confirmed they weren't on the same network segment.