January 9, 201412 yr Hi Everyone, I'm new to unRAID and I'm setting up a system for the first time. I have everything up and running, I am able to access from the standard dashboard or unmenu from another machine's (windows) web browser. I have pre-cleared both drives I have installed in the unRAID Tower. I set one of the drives to be visible by the array, enabled user shares and started the array. Smooth sailing until now. I am trying to create a user share so I can begin moving files across my network to the new server (freeing up other drives so I can add them to the system). I am running the free license. I plan on purchasing after I see some success. When I try to create a share, I get the error: "cannot create directory '/mnt/user/Movies': No such file or directory" When I look up the server in my network places I can see the flash drive only, not the one hard drive I brought online (I am going to make the other drive a parity once I get some data on the server). Thanks for your help! Frank
January 9, 201412 yr I can't answer the question regarding not being able to create the user share, never seen that one before. Are you trying to create it via the Shares tab in the WebGUI? As for not being able to see the disk share, have you set the disk SMB export to yes? Click on the disk in the WebGUI main page, on the settings page set SMB export to yes and public.
January 9, 201412 yr Author Hi, Thanks for the reply. The drive is set to be shared. I also noticed the drive is unformatted. I will try formatting it and see if that solves the problem. I was under the assumption that pre-clearing (a 24 hour process) made formatting unnecessary, but again I am very wet behind the ears with this system. Frank
January 9, 201412 yr Author How long will formatting take on a pre-cleared 2tb drive? Roughly? Will it be another 20+ hours or should I stick around? I don't see a status (percent complete) anywhere... Thanks Frank
January 9, 201412 yr Yes, it needs to be formatted before it will show up as a usable drive. The formatting process is quick. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
January 9, 201412 yr Author Right on. That was the issue. User shared created. Shares and Drive visible from network places. Thank you very much sir. Now the slow part, transferring data. Currently only getting 2.5mb's per second...
January 9, 201412 yr You should be getting somewhere around 35 - 40 MB/s, assuming you have a parity drive assigned. 100+ MB/s if you are running without parity. Are you using a gigabit network?
January 9, 201412 yr Author Right now the server is plugged directly into the modem, a SMC8014W-G. Laptop is transferring files wireless using it's on-board "Intel Centrino Advanced N-6235" wireless card. 100mb/s would be a lot better. Where do I start diagnosing?
January 9, 201412 yr Right now the server is plugged directly into the modem, a SMC8014W-G. Laptop is transferring files wireless using it's on-board "Intel Centrino Advanced N-6235" wireless card. 100mb/s would be a lot better. Where do I start diagnosing? The best you are going to get with that setup is 11MB/s or so, with the laptop directly connected with a cat5 to the cable modem. In order to get anywhere close to 100, you are going to need to purchase a gigabit ethernet switch and connect it to the modem, and plug both computers directly into it with good quality cables. This assumes that the network adapter in both the laptop and unraid server are both gigabit capable. Wireless is fine for web surfing, but it sucks for actually pushing any real amount of data.
January 9, 201412 yr Author OK thanks for the reply. Will the wireless suffice for streaming video and music? Frank
January 9, 201412 yr Jonathanm beat me to the punch while I was looking up the router specs. He's 100% correct. In the mean time, before you get a gigabit switch, you can get better throughput by plugging the laptop into the router via Ethernet and transferring the files that way. You'll get ~11 - 12 MB/s that way. The wireless in that router is 802.11G which is 54Mb/s theoretical and roughly 22Mb/s real world throughput, which is 2.75MB/s.
January 9, 201412 yr OK thanks for the reply. Will the wireless suffice for streaming video and music? Frank Music, absolutely. I can't think of a music format that would saturate a decent wireless connection. Video should be ok, depending on what format.
January 9, 201412 yr OK thanks for the reply. Will the wireless suffice for streaming video and music? Frank 802.11g (what your router has) is sufficient for streaming music and lower quality video. It'll do SD content no problem, but will probably struggle with some HD content. It's also highly dependant on how many wireless clients are active at the time.
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