I have just upgraded from v5.0 beta 13 to the latest 5.0 rc8

 

I did this as I wanted to start from scratch and tidy things up a bit as I had previously tried many add ons and plugins and was also having trouble starting the holy trinity after a server reboot. So I flattened the USB drive and started again.

 

I have installed 5.0 rc8 and it started the array fine. I then added simple features plugin, rebooted and again all went well. So I added Influencers plugins for SAB, SB, CP & headphones. All still booted ok. At this point I tried to access the array from my Win7 pc (hadn't tried this till now).

 

Problem: I can see the server on my network but when I double click on it to see the drives or shares it wont access.

 

I have run the newperms and that completed fine

 

Interestingly I can get to the  disks using the IP address but not with \\Tower

 

Any ideas please??

 

 

unRAID v5.0 rc8a is running on HP micro server N26L

 

Win7 version is win7 Ultimate 64bit

Step one is run newpermissions, but you did that.

 

Step 2 is checking what kind of file access your shares have, set security for one share to PUBLIC (if it is not allready).

 

Now browse to that share from windows. If you did that and it did not work please post back..

Delete any stored permissions on the client.

Try rebooting windows.  I had something similar happen to me.

The bottom line check to see if its permissions is mounting a share from command prompt using NET USE .. That way you can specifically enter the new permissions on command line.. I am actually pretty sure this should fix it, if not we probably need a syslog ..

 

 

Interestingly I can get to the  disks using the IP address but not with \\Tower

 

 

Ahh, a clue.  So you can do an explorer to "\\192.168.x.x" and see the shares/disks?

 

But when you go to "\\Tower" -- you get nothing?

 

how about at a command prompt -- if you do "ping Tower" -- does it resolve to the SAME IP address?

Ah... Then there is absolutely nothing wrong with your shares, most probably also not with permissions.. This is a DNS issue. Set the master browser option (not sure where it is) to YES.

 

If that does not solve it either use the ip address from now on or create a local HOSTS.TXT file that points the name "tower" to the ip of the unraid box.

Delete any stored permissions on the client.

 

How do I do that?

 

 

 

Interestingly I can get to the  disks using the IP address but not with \\Tower

 

 

Ahh, a clue.  So you can do an explorer to "\\192.168.x.x" and see the shares/disks?

 

But when you go to "\\Tower" -- you get nothing?

 

how about at a command prompt -- if you do "ping Tower" -- does it resolve to the SAME IP address?

 

Yes, using the IP addr works fine.

 

PING - Yes it resolves it almost instantly noproblem at all.

 

I found this somewhere else but didnt understand it. could this help

 

make sure smb and nmb are both running on your tower.

Login as root and type

 

ps -ef | egrep 'smb|nmb'

 

You should see something like.

root      3540    1  0 Jan29 ?        00:00:25 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

root      3542    1  0 Jan29 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

 

also check your config.

 

egrep -i aster /etc/samba/*.conf

/etc/samba/smb-names.conf:local master = yes

 

Dump your /etc/resolv.conf file too.

cat /etc/resolv.conf

 

When i typed in the first command I get 5 lines back

 

root    15964 15870  0 09:53 pts/0    00:00:00 egrep smb|nmb

root    23704    1  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

root    23706    1  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root    23711 23706  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

root    23720 23706  0 07:51 ?        00:00:11 /usr/sbin/smbd -D

 

Asfor the other commands I get

 

root@HPmicro:~# egrep -i aster /etc/samba/*.conf

/etc/samba/smb-names.conf:local master = yes

root@HPmicro:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf

# Generated entries:

nameserver 192.168.2.1

 

Does any of this help?

I should add that I have also tried this

 

/etc/rc.d/rc.samba stop
wget ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/samba-*.txz
installpkg samba-*.txz
logger "### samba `smbd -V` installed. ###"
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba start

 

But this didnt work either!

 

Please help.

 

Remind me how to post a syslog and I will gladly do so.

I should add that I have also tried this

 

/etc/rc.d/rc.samba stop
wget ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/samba-*.txz
installpkg samba-*.txz
logger "### samba `smbd -V` installed. ###"
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba start

This will not survive a reboot unless these commands are put in the go file.

Remind me how to post a syslog and I will gladly do so.

See here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9880.0

You also mentioned before about changing the permissions on the client, by which I assume you're referring to the windows box with which I am trying to connect to my server (HPmicro)?

 

How do I change hose permissions?

 

Log file attached. Hope this helps. And thanks for your assistance.

syslog.txt

Open the Credentials Manager Control Panel and delete any stored credentials.

Disable all add-ons until this is resolved.

I found the credentials manager in windows

 

This did the trick immediately.

 

More importantly I can see why. Windows was trying to access the server with the old root password but I haven't set one yet so I guess the server was rejecting it.

 

At least I learned something in the process.

 

Thank you so much