June 11, 200818 yr So I was making sure my hardware and unraid were up and running before I actually plug the box into the network and after going through normal linux boot sequence I get to a prompt for Tower login: My question is, once I put this box away somewhere and leave it headless, I don't HAVE to login there to get to/use the raid array over the network do I???
June 11, 200818 yr You do not need to login to use unRAID across your network. You only need to login if you want to run some commands (which you can do via telnet from one of your networked PC's).
June 11, 200818 yr You never have to log in via the system console. to manage unRAID itself.. unless you cannot get to the server from the LAN. You can use telnet to log in remotely to look at the system log, or the unRAID web-management page for most everything else. If the LAN connection is not available, for whatever reason, then you might be able to log in locally and then look at the syslog to determine what happened. If your BIOS resets itself every time you add a hard-drive to try to boot from the hard drive, you will need access to the system console to set the boot device as your flash drive when you add hardware. That would be another time when a screen would be needed. If your motherboard cannot be run headless, you will need a monitor plugged in, or a connector wired to make it think a monitor is there (assuming it only needs a pin set high/low to think a monitor is connected) Some motherboards, even recent ones, cannot run headless. Other than that, ithe unRAID server can sit in the closet and run headless. Joe L.
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