How can I access unraid using the web GUI?

 

I type in tower it does not work.

 

I know I can edit a file to replace tower with a static IP address but I don't know what I did but on my dad's macbook, he can access the unraid box using tower without changing the IP address.

 

Solutions much appreciated please, thank you.

Just wanted to put updates and solutions on the first post.

 

To get your browser to access //tower instead of typing in your ip working again, go to your hosts file and put/move previous ip tower line above the following: fe80::1%lo0  localhost

 

If this is your first time editing your hosts file and it is locked, move up one level to the /etc folder and modify the permissions to allow everyone to edit it. If you edit permissions on the hosts file itself it won't let you modify it. You can always reset permissions after changes are made. (This might a be a big DUUUUURRRR.... to some apple developer pro wizard mages out there but for a normal person it took me forever to figure it out)

 

To mount your shares type smb://tower and it will mount the tower and whatever drive you select. Once mounted I assume it will stay put until a reboot.

 

If you update to 5.09b you're pre-existing unMenu breaks, open terminal and telnet into your server and type unmenu_install -u which will automagically update your unMenu to work. Also simple to pros but unimaginable to someone who never thought to upgrade a fully functional unMenu.

 

If you are running bootcamp, macfuse is not properly updated and you can not modify or mount the bootcamp partition, you can however still option boot into windows. Paragon NTFS works but I am just going to wait for the update for macfuse as I never access my bootcamp partition through my mac anyways.

 

And absolutely no offense to anyone here who works hard to make unraid great, but I have been tearing my hair out for 2 days to figure out something that took ONE line to solve. I asked for help and sure no one is obliged to give it, but I received mostly "mine works fine (with no solution)" or "haha you suck for upgrading dick" type responses when I just needed a little help. Worst of all I got the "you should just figure it out yourself" which makes no sense because if I could I would have right? I feel like this: http://rutube.ru/tracks/3977627.html?v=af8d0ba957ab9fba4b274545cb1a3d1e

 

Well I sure learned my lesson. Thanks everybody.

 

 

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I found this on the forum from a search but I cannot understand it very well. I already edited my hosts file for tower to code for the static IP address but now my server is dynamic under the new setup. help please!!

Your router may be registering the hostname for your server. If you have the hostname in your /etc/hosts file pointing to the wrong IP that will override what is in the router. If you dad does not have the host entry in his hosts file then the router is doing the name resolution and "tower" gets resolved to the correct IP for him.

 

 

 

 

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I changed it all back and it was working yesterday (as u said deleted hosts entry) but once again, its now not working through google chrome. very confused! fixes?

Can you connect using the IP address?

Changing permissions of folders is really not how you want to edit your hosts file. Do it through the command line in a terminal session.

 

Open a terminal window and type "sudo nano /private/etc/hosts"

 

Add your entry, then hit "control + o" then "control + x" And that's control, not command.

 

 

 

 

As for dynamic vs static IP addresses for your server. You are better off setting those rules in your router, not on the server itself in my opinion. That way as long as your NIC doesn't change the static IP will stick through any software updates to the server itself.