July 16, 201213 yr Forgive me as I'm rather new to unRAID (and not particularly familiar with Linux to begin with)... I run a 100% Mac household so getting Bonjour working is important to me. My AFP seems to be working just fine since I can still manually connect from my other machines, but it's really bothering me that my unRAID server doesn't seem to be broadcasting. I'm not so far along that I can't scratch it and start over if I have to. I've already done it twice to try and fix this. I won't feel comfortable adopting it if i can't get this working... So when I make a change to the share settings, sometimes it'll pop up in Finder on my other boxes, but then it goes right back away again after a while. I haven't been able to nail down the specifics. I've been trying to figure out avahi and see if there's anything I can get going there, but i don't know where to start. Not knowing my way around Linux isn't helping much, either. :-( Still, I get the impression that this works pretty well straight out of the box so I don't know what might make me so special. Are some NICs not 100% avahi compliant? Might some router settings be messing with me? Is network topography an issue? Everything is on the same subnet, but spread across 2 routers, power line ethernet adapters, and wifi. Is there a configuration option within unRAID I can explore? Are there some diagnostics i can check? SOLVED: I fixed my own problem, and it's only tangentially related to unRAID. Since afp clearly works and avahi is enabled, I figured it must be a broadcasting issue with my network. My genuine Apple products seem to persist just fine, but for whatever reason, my unRAID doesn't. I guess avahi's zeroconf implementation isn't as robust as Apple's. Anyways... I have fios internet, but the router is old (slow) so I had hooked up a newer one to it and have had everything running through that. When I moved everything back to a one-router setup, it all started working just fine again. At this point, I can either drop the fios router into bridge mode for the mocha connection or see if fios will upgrade me to a gigabit ethernet/wireless N router. Either way, it'll work just fine. One more thing to knock off the list!
July 16, 201213 yr Author To make matters weirder... It seems to be broadcasting SMB, but not AFP. But the shared resource shows up as "tower" rather than "Tower-SMB". It's clearly responding to SMB updates, though.
July 16, 201213 yr Author Perhaps it's also worth noting that I connect via DHCP, but I've reserved an IP address on the router so that it'll always lock into the same place.
August 3, 201213 yr Author I just upgraded my router and Bonjour is working better than ever. I can now see my unRAID box from every node on the network including via wifi.
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