hi all,

have always connected over wifi never been an issue, now recently got plug in the wall ethernet connection. Can connect to the internet just fine it all works but for some reason I no longer connect to the unraid server at http://192.168.0.229/ which it has been since 2 year ago.

I can telnet to the machine and sign in

I can ping the ip address

I can see the shares in windows explorer

when i connect with ethernet i get connection refused

my media applications are accessible via cloudflare tunnels still.

so the tower is very much up and running but for some reason I can't get the ui to resolve in browser. Any handy telnet commands I can try to reset some things on the system? Not sure at all what's going on here.

To be clear the only change recently is access to the router is on the ethernet cable not the wifi. tower is ethernet connected to the router, I can see the machines both in the router dhcp settings and both with reserved IPs. i.e. on this machine the router shows me the machine with it's set IP address but when I try connect to that IP the router is telling me is there it won't connect.

talk about giving up too early, literally just found a solution. thank you my95z34

over at reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/1ba2ncl/unraid_gui_isnt_working_says_error_refused/

not sure what this does but this command /etc/rc.d/rc.nginx start did the trick for me and i can connect on the ethernet again

edit: if any other newbies see this in the future let this be a lesson to make sure you have telnet/ssh access set up so you can do exactly this solution if it happens to you. In hindsight im glad to have had it enabled otherwise this'd be a pain to resolve.

Edited June 27, 20251 yr by alcxander
just wanted to add a note about enabling services for other newbies in the future