I have unRaid on one VM and Sick/Sab/Couch/Plex running on another Ubuntu VM.  What is the best way to have the files save to and read from the unRaid VM.  Do I just mount the various drives (cache and shares) in Ubuntu?

You access them the same as if these were "real" computers -- you can either map the network drives; or just address them with the network address ... e.g. \\tower\sharename

 

I have my files decompress on the VM then move to unraid. The reason for this is that in the event that the networked drives become unmapped (because I rebooted unraid usually), the files are still downloaded.

 

Admittedly this is user error, but the setup saves me from myself.

 

Sent from a phone, sorry for any typos

 

 

You access them the same as if these were "real" computers -- you can either map the network drives; or just address them with the network address ... e.g. \\tower\sharename

 

I tried that and it didn't work, which is why I came here.

You access them the same as if these were "real" computers -- you can either map the network drives; or just address them with the network address ... e.g. \\tower\sharename

 

I tried that and it didn't work, which is why I came here.

 

Using same here - Ubuntu VM running Sab,Sick,Couch,Subsonic,MySQL.

 

Mount the UnRAID shares you need from your Ubuntu server, either via Samba or NFS. 

 

Ensure you create blank directories for the mount points first on your Ubuntu server.  eg. mkdir -p /mnt/tower/TV, mkdir -p /mnt/tower/Movies etc.

 

Test by mounting from command line.  eg. for a Samba mount;

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.3/TV -o guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8  /mnt/tower/TV

 

(192.168.0.3 = my UnRAID VM)

 

When you're happy, make the mounts permanent by modifying /etc/fstab.

 

Example entries for /etc/fstab:

 

NFS mounts:

# Mount shares from UnRAID VM over NFS
192.168.0.3:/mnt/user/TV       /mnt/data/TV                     nfs     soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
192.168.0.3:/mnt/user/Movies   /mnt/data/Movies                 nfs     soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192

 

or Samba mounts:

# Mount (Public/Guest) shares from UnRAID VM over Samba
//192.168.0.3/cache             /mnt/tower/cache                cifs    guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8  0  0
//192.168.0.3/TV                /mnt/tower/TV                   cifs    guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8  0  0
//192.168.0.3/Movies            /mnt/tower/Movies               cifs    guest,uid=0,iocharset=utf8  0  0

 

The above are UnRAID shares with typical public access.

 

Of if you need to provide a user/pass for share access, try something like:

# Mount (Private/User) share from UnRAID VN over Samba
//192.168.0.3/Misc              /mnt/tower/Misc                 cifs    username=foo,password=bar,uid=0,iocharset=utf8  0  0

 

Issue command "mount -a" for system to run through /etc/fstab file and mount anything not already mounted or reboot to test.

 

 

 

Regards,

overbyrn

 

 

Thanks overbyrn!  Wasn't expecting a full walkthru...appreciate it nonetheless.  Will try this out when I get home