I have tried both NFS and SMB protocols, done extensive reading of the user docs and watched the few utubes that attempt to address the issue. The raid is in/house, used by me for photos and audiobooks; so, I am looking for the simplist/easiest way to back up files from an unassigned usb drive attached to a UnRaid motherboard usb port.

I have a Synology raid DS1819 with over a hundred TB of historical media I am attempting to move to the UnRaid. I have copied the media from the Synology to a USB drive, I then plug that drive into the Unraid MB and it shows on the GUI as a unassigned USBdrive. However when i select the files on the share, they are not written, and I get permission errors for the AudioBook:user/password combo, though the user was successfully created. As I am sure lots of Synology users are aware the optimal way to do this as a direct share from the DS1819 to the UnRaid OS (MasaiMara), but that seems amuch more complex process and all my efforts there have also been unsuccessful due to write permission errors (certificates/domains/port config etc).

As a result I am trying to get the simpler sneaker net unassigned USB sneaker net option to work.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Obviously any solution is a multi step process.

1. selection of optimal/simplist protocol SMB / NFS, or ?

2. any required configuration script?

3. ?

masaimara-diagnostics-20260115-1146.zip

Edited January 15Jan 15 by Bogart
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Have you tried the built-in File Manager in the Unraid webUI?

trul, thanks for the reply: yes I have tried it multiple times with the

result, multilayer failure I suspect because I'm fairly sure I don't have the mount set up correctly.

Not really following your screenshots, but Remote mounts are not part of user shares (/mnt/user)

1 hour ago, Bogart said:

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One thing that I see is the you have not clicked on the 'MOUNT' button. Do that and see if the other server mounts on your Unraid server.

When that happens, you should see something like this:

Left-click where I have circled. IT should show something like this:

This is the built-in File Manager for Unraid. We are interested in seeing the owner and permissions on the directories and files. (You are seeing a Share from my first Unraid server which is mounted on my second Unraid server.)

Fank1940 thanks for the reply as you can see this is why i'm pretty sure I have the mount wrong.

This is what the syslog says:

Any idea what "optional EEPROM" would be missing from? ie where and how to fix?

thanks danl1950

You have to use a valid login to the remote server. (i.e., the same user name and password that you normally used when you logged into that server for the share that you are mounting.)

The biggest issue as mentioned above it the mount was misconfigured: //MASAIMARA/AudioBook -> remote_share. I have removed that and it seems to be working. There are other issues with the Synology remote shares and the UnRaid file browser which I am working to untangle. Thanks for assist.

I have tried the above steps many times over the last few weeks and made small progress but have not solved the problem completely. By rebooting server into safe mode I was able to remove the bad remote mounts. Unfortunately Unraid seems to keep a record of old mounts and keeps trying to remount them in spite of this. After refusing the remount of the old mounts I was able to reboot the server into normal mode, I then had to ensure the OS was restarted and the disks remounted. ATT Krusader is reloaded and shows paths to my installed shares. Unfortunately it is still unable to find the path to the local unassigned nvme drive, inspite of the fact that the OS shows the unassigned nvme drive.

/mnt/disks is created by the Unassigned Devices plugin. If you have removed that plugin, or booted in SAFE mode (no plugins) it will not exist.

trurl, thanks for the input, however as i said above after the safe reboot I reboot into normal mode. As you can see the plugins are present:

1 hour ago, Bogart said:

Krusader

Depending on how you have Krusader configured, it might not have access to anything but your user shares, which is the safest configuration for it.

You don't really need Krusader anyway, Unraid V7 has built-in File Manager, and it will let you manage files on shares, disks, pools, unassigned, remotes.

I'm not sure I followed the comments above properly. I do understand that allowing connection of usb drives to a raid amounts to a significant hole in the raids security. However, in my case it is a short term workaround to my data migration requirement. Once the new raid initial migration is complete I will go back and remove the ability to mount unassigned disks.

For the moment I seem to have made significant progress by enabling these settings:

5 hours ago, Bogart said:

ATT Krusader is reloaded and shows paths to my installed shares. Unfortunately it is still unable to find the path to the local unassigned nvme drive, inspite of the fact that the OS shows the unassigned nvme drive.

What is this screenshot from?

Goggle Gemini

The screenshot with the error message that says /mnt/disks does not exist is from Gemini?

The setting information screen shot is from Gemini.

The error screen shot is from UnRaid.

The error was corrected by: " trurl, thanks for the input, however as i said above after the safe reboot I reboot into normal mode. As you can see the plugins are present:" Which is the Plug-Ins screen shot.

6 minutes ago, Bogart said:

The error screen shot is from UnRaid.

That doesn't look like the Unraid webUI. Is it from a docker maybe?