I am having issues connecting to unraid its main duty for years is to serve files to my cinema room via a R video / Zapitti player.  I now cant access my movies either by the R Video software on windows or on the player its self.  I can log into the user I have on unraid I can see my shares but when I select the folder movies I get a cant resolve host error.  Please any help would be appreciated.  I have updated to 7.0.1 and installed tailscale so not sure if that is the issue.

 

I have noticed this in the plugins error folder dynamix.unraid.net plg

 

dnscheck() {
  HOST=$1
  if [ -x /usr/bin/host ] && ! /usr/bin/host -W 10 "${HOST}" &>/dev/null; then
    echo "⚠️ Warning: Your DNS server (${DNS_SERVER1}) is unable to resolve '${HOST}'" 
    DNSERR=yes
  fi

 

Can this be causing my issue

Looks more likely a general networking connectivity error.

 

If you login and open up the console, can you resolve external hostnames from the machine?

ping google.com -c 3

 

If no response and this times out, it either can't access your DNS server or there is some other networking problem. First try rebooting and if still the same symptoms, I'd check your networking configuration for invalid name servers. If you don't see anything there unusual, you can reset your networking stack by deleting the network.cfg file from /flash/config/network.cfg and rebooting.

13 hours ago, sreknob said:

Looks more likely a general networking connectivity error.

 

If you login and open up the console, can you resolve external hostnames from the machine?

ping google.com -c 3

 

If no response and this times out, it either can't access your DNS server or there is some other networking problem. First try rebooting and if still the same symptoms, I'd check your networking configuration for invalid name servers. If you don't see anything there unusual, you can reset your networking stack by deleting the network.cfg file from /flash/config/network.cfg and rebooting.

Thank you for your reply.  I got this working again by enabling netBIOS in SMB settings and immediately my player and windows machine found tower on network and connected to share

Edited March 28, 20251 yr by gemeit