I write because of two separate (or not, what do I know) problems.

 

Firstly, earlier today the hostname of the unRAID server stopped working, but only on one particular machine. I can access the server by visiting \\tower on a Windows 7 laptop, but not on my Windows 7 desktop computer. I presume, given the disparities in behaviour, that the problem lies in the desktop computer rather than the server, but even so perhaps someone might offer some wisdom! What strikes me as most curious is that I may still access the server from the desktop computer by visiting \\ip.of.server.

 

The second and far more pressing issue has to do with read and write privileges. Specifically, they aren't consistent. All the shares I've created are visible and may be visited. However, at some arbitrary depths down into those shares, I am suddenly told I may not venture further. On my television series share it happens sporadically, in a few subfolders per series (meaning XBMC on my HTPC hardly ever sees all of a series, which is truly annoying), whereas in another share it happens on everything past a depth of 2.

 

To my knowledge absolutely nothing should be locked. All shares and disks are set to public (some hidden, some not).

 

My best guess is that I am navigating the shares as a guest, rather than as a user; I had a similar problem as I installed SAB et al., where SAB couldn't write to its incomplete folder because it wasn't accessible as guest. For that reason I am running the Usenet triple as root (though this doesn't seem like an ideal solution either. More on that in a bit).

 

Given this, I tried looking around for a way to connect to the shares as root, without much luck. Any advise?

 

Also, speaking of root, I seem to be unable to create users. I can visit http://tower/Users/UserAdd?, but upon pressing 'Add' nothing at all happens.

 

Thanks for any and all help.

Regarding your first issue:

 

First, reboot the windows machine that is having the issue.

 

Second, under the 'Settings' tab, 'Network services, 'SMB' tab, set 'Local Master' to 'Yes' and apply.

 

For the second problem, you need to identify exactly what version of unRAID you are using....  And a Syslog might help also. 

Thanks for the response!

 

A reboot did nothing at all for the first issue, it seems. It is hardly a pressing issue though, since the IP still works. I should also add that, whereas I cannot navigate the shares with \\tower, I may visit tower/ in the browser.

 

As for the information you ask for, I am running 5.0-rc8a according to the main page. You will find the syslog.tgz (though zipped because it was apparently a tad too large for the forum) as provided by the user interface attached to this post. Please ask for any additional information and I'll do my best in providing it!

syslog.zip

User logins must be all lower case. root is prohibited from accessing shares. Remove any saved credentials for the server in the control panel on the windows machine. The add-ons should be run as user "nobody" or there will be permissions problems.

User logins must be all lower case. root is prohibited from accessing shares. Remove any saved credentials for the server in the control panel on the windows machine.

 

Thanks, I now have another user to play with! Even so, the permission problems persist. In fact, after having changed to my new user on the HTPC, XBMC doesn't even find all television series, which it did before, even though it wouldn't find all the subsequent season folders. Is there anything else blatantly obvious I could try?

 

The add-ons should be run as user "nobody" or there will be permissions problems.

 

I have now changed the users accordingly, however given the privilege trouble the add-ons don't really function now; they can't write to or read from the folders specified in their settings (complete/incomplete/watch for SAB and so forth).

User logins must be all lower case. root is prohibited from accessing shares. Remove any saved credentials for the server in the control panel on the windows machine.

 

Thanks, I now have another user to play with! Even so, the permission problems persist. In fact, after having changed to my new user on the HTPC, XBMC doesn't even find all television series, which it did before, even though it wouldn't find all the subsequent season folders. Is there anything else blatantly obvious I could try?

 

The add-ons should be run as user "nobody" or there will be permissions problems.

 

I have now changed the users accordingly, however given the privilege trouble the add-ons don't really function now; they can't write to or read from the folders specified in their settings (complete/incomplete/watch for SAB and so forth).

 

Go to Utils->New Permissions. Leave the web page open and let it run overnight.

 

Or enter "newperms target"; target can be a file or directory. It's finished when the command line returns.

I'll try that and come back to you tomorrow. Thanks for all the help!

 

Edit: I tried the command line approach on a few directories known to be bad. It worked! Thank you dearly, dgaschk.