so now that i seem to have unRAID upgraded to 5.0.4 and SimpleFeatures to the Dynamix GUI, i can't figure out a few things that violate my OCD nature:

 

in my OSX (10.9.1) Finder i see "unRAID" and "unRAID-AFP" entries, both of which show a Mac Server (with all the RAID disks) icon and a "Connection Failed" and "Connect As..." button underneath...clicking on "Connect As..." under the "unRAID" icon won't being up a credentials requestor at all, and clicking on "Connect As..." under the "unRAID-AFP" icon will bring up a credential requestor, but will not accept those credentials.

 

the only way i can access my shares is by going into the Finder's "Go" menu, select "Connect to Server..." and enter "smb://192.168.1.55", then my password, and then select one of my shares on the server, which will then appear under my "Devices" section in the left panel of my Finder...i then also have an entry called "192.168.1.55" in my "Shared" section in the left panel of my Finder, which gives me access to all of my shares on the server.

 

this behavior is inconsistent with how things worked before i did the upgrades...i was previously running unRAID 5.0 with SimpleFeatures, and what is now "192.168.1.55" simply appeared as "unRAID-SMB", and i was able to use the previous "unRAID" and "unRAID-SMB" entries in Finder as would be expected, by clicking on "Connect As...", inputting my credentials and choosing my shares.

 

excuse the long-winded post, but i had to explain before asking my questions, which are quite simple:

 

> how can i get "192.168.1.55" to show as "unRAID" (or "unRAID-SMB")?

> why do "unRAID" and "unRAID-AFP" show at all when i can't use them (or how *can* i use them successfully)?

I believe you're confusing changes in the underlying method that unRAID now handles your SMB shares.  This is not a Dynamix issue, which has absolutely zero to do with the way your shares are being displayed within OS X.  It's just a coincidence that things changed when you upgraded to a newer version of unRAID (and also upgraded your webgui).

 

Take a look at this release announcement for 5.0.3, which specifically changes how things are displayed within the Finder.

 

Personally, I manually connect via my hostname (which my router allows me to do with dnsmasq) with Command-K (i.e., smb://tower/sharename).  Because I export my shares as hidden, if I click on the "Tower" name and do a Connect As, the dialog pops up but it won't connect since I'm not specifying a share name.  I also can't speak to AFP, since I don't use it, but I think Mavericks has changed a bit as well with how it connects to SMB servers. 

 

Sorry this doesn't help much.  I have always simply used Command-K to connect to my server, then Shift-Command-G to quickly take me to my mounted volumes.

 

Edit: I changed one of my shares to publicly export, and now when I click on my unRAID server in Finder (i.e., Tower), I get the option to Connect As, and it then displays my public share just fine.  Not sure why you're getting a different result.

Once you've connected once, OS X will keep your credentials.  (run the OS X utility KEYCHAIN ACCESS to see this.)

Mavericks has much improved Samba....AppleFileProtocol is now ONLY needed for TimeMachine (and connecting to some much older macs and printers).

 

Don't forget that in FINDER / PREFERENCES  you can control what shows up in the sidebar if its distracting.

Thanks guys! I just noticed that today my server does show up as "unRAID", rather than as its IP number, so that now works as desired.

 

i'll read up on the changes in that 5.0.3 link you posted, and i had already heard about Apple phasing out AFP in the near future, with the beginnings of that already happening.

 

well, for the moment it looks like things with my shares are working in a way that are close enough to what it used to be, that i wrap my head around it...the rest i will adjust to, i am sure.

 

although i still don't understand why the "unRAID" entry in "Network" in my Finder won't show any of the shares when i click on it...i just get the tiny gray spinning circle in the right lower corner of the Finder window's status bar, but it never stops spinning or shows any of my shares...how is the "unRAID" icon/entry in "Networks" different from the "unRAID" entry that i get when doing Command+K ? and the "unRAID-AFP" entry will always say "Connection Failed"...why is it even there, even if i have the AFP settings set to Export = No, and why doesn't it work if i set the AFP settings to Export = Yes/TimeMachine ?

 

i'm confused, obviously, but maybe reading through that link you posted will answer at least some of this.

 

 

nope, i don't get it, and the unRAID entry in my left panel of Finder is *not* behaving as i thought it should...clicking on it gives me an endless spinning gray wheel in the Finder's lower right status-bar area.

 

back to the drawing board...i can pull up the server via Command+K and the selecting my "unRAID" user-share, which i set up to hold *all* of my server's directories...so just to avoid confusion: my server is called "unRAID" as is my main user share, with all of my server's data in it.

 

my questions, again, are:

 

> how can i get 192.168.1.55 to display as "unRAID" (like it did before upgrading from 5.0 to 5.0.4)?

> how can i get the "unRAID" and "unRAID-AFP" entries in my Network to either disappear altogether, since they don't seem to work at all for accessing any shares?

 

@kaiguy: you said

I changed one of my shares to publicly export, and now when I click on my unRAID server in Finder (i.e., Tower), I get the option to Connect As, and it then displays my public share just fine.  Not sure why you're getting a different result.

 

i wonder the same thing, as it worked perfectly fine before...i am also exporting as "Public", but don't even get the credentials requestor when clicking "Connect As..." now.

 

maybe it could be a result of me having copied over the share.cfg file from my 5.0 installation? i copied over all of my old cfg files...maybe after i'm done with a 4hr copy operation i'm in the middle of, i should try to delete that share and create it from scratch in 5.0.4? do you think that might make a difference?

I have three thoughts:

 

1. I suspect the problem with your having to keep connecting manually to unRAID is with your unRAID configuration.

I suspect its in the stored settings on your Mac.

Try using the OS X utility for KEYCHAIN ACCESS and see what it has for server names.

If it has 'Tower-SMB', delete that credential...that's the old naming scheme.  You might just delete all keychains to unRAID to be sure.

They'll be recreated on your next access.

 

2. Look in the menu FINDER / PREFERENCES / SIDEBAR and you can turn OFF the stuff in the Finder Sidebar you don't want to see.

 

3. The new names (as of 5.0.3) are 'TOWER' (for the SMB stuff) and 'TOWER-AFP' (for the Apple stuff.)  If you want to revert to the old naming convention then

the instructions from 5.0.3 release notes apply: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30452.0

 

So if you want to change it back the way it was you would add these lines in /boot/config/share.cfg:shareAvahiSMBName="%h-SMB"shareAvahiAFPName="%h"

Those are solid recommendations, Dale...thanks!

 

I put my server to sleep for the night, but already deleted all of the "tower" and "unRAID" references/entries in my Keychain, in anticipation of looking into it some more tomorrow.

 

my gut feeling is that you're right about your suspicion that old stored settings are the culprit...the reason why i am particularly optimistic about that one is that was just setting up girlfriend's MacBook Air for sale, and when i needed a program that was stored on my server, i was able to see the same "unRAID" and "unRAID-AFP" entries in her Finder, and was able to use them exactly as i had been on my other computers, before the upgrade...so the fact that she didn't have any stored credentials, and that it asked me for my credentials as it should, makes me think that your solution might just work.

 

i'll report back tomorrow after confirming that it did (or didn't) do the trick.

 

As for my left bar in the Finder, yes i am aware of being able to turn most items on/off in Preferences...ii've always liked seeing everything that's attached or available to be mounted there, but only if it was working as expected, which it was, until just a few days ago...maybe tomorrow all will be working again.

 

thanks again and a good night to you all!

... setting up girlfriend's MacBook Air for sale, and when i needed a program that was stored on my server, i was able to see the same "unRAID" and "unRAID-AFP" entries in her Finder, and was able to use them exactly as i had been on my other computers, before the upgrade...so the fact that she didn't have any stored credentials, and that it asked me for my credentials as it should, makes me think that your solution might just work....

Yep...somewhere hidden away in your Mac is the memory of an unRAID server from the past.

hmmm, i still don't really think is working right...

 

i brought the server back online, rebooted my MBP for good measure (after clearing out the Keychain of all "unRAID" entries and the one "Tower" entry, and was at first happy to see an "unRAID" entry in my "Shared" section in the left Finder column...when clicking on that i got "flash" almost immediately, which made sense, bc i hadn't started the array yet...started the array and a minute later all of my shares joined "flash" in a long list...so far, so good.

 

but when i look inside of the "Network" entry in my Finder, and click on "unRAID" there, i get nothing under the icon and "Connect as..." button, but the same annoying little spinning gray wheel in the lower right corner of the Finder's status bar....what's also weird is that while it says "Connected as: Till", hitting "Disconnect" repeatedly, will not disconnect me or bring up the credentials requestor, as it did before i deleted all the Keychain entries!

curiously, when clicking on the "unRAID-AFP" entry, i do get my "TimeMachine-rMBP" share.

 

i just don't understand why my main computer is mis-behaving like this!

my other workstation, an iMac, is showing the same two entries ("unRAID" and "unRAID-AFP"), but clicking on them will give me the same "Failed" above "Connect as..." and no requestor when clicking that button.

 

will do the Keychain pruning on my iMac next, but this is just strange, the whole thing.

so frustrating!