This is my first setup of unRAID sever and I was able to make one finally.

 

After I precleared all disks and tried to boot the server. It went o.k. with no problem.

 

I tried to access the sever from my mac using ip address.

 

The setup tutorial (http://lime-technology.com/basic-setup-tutorial-for-the-avs-104-mass-storage-server-with-unraid/) says that I would get the following picture (after-preclear-1.jpg).

 

But actually I get different picture (after-preclear-2.jpg). 

 

My question is how to get to the system management utility page as shown on after-preclear-1.jpg.

 

I am somewhat puzzled and any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

I think you have used the wrong IP address?

 

It looks as if you have accessed the IPMI port on the SuperMicro board.  This is a special port that allows you to get at the BIOS facilities while the board is booting.  There will be a different IP address (using a different physical LAN connection) that is the normal Ethernet connection.

Thanks.  Yes, I need to use different ip for LAN1.

Is there a good tutorial or guide for server management utility?

 

It would be nice if there is one with a view point from mac user accessing unRAID server.

Did you try tower.local like it says instead of trying the ip address? Can you ping tower.local?

 

I can ping to tower.local but typing "tower.local" on browser is not working.

Since you were able to do preclear then you must be able to get to the unRAID command line, whether through telnet or IPMI or whatever.

 

From the unRAID command line, what do you get with

ifconfig 

?

This is what I got after typing "ifconfig":

You have your ethernet connected to the direct access SuperMicro port on the mother board and that will not allow you to connect to Unraid

You should have additional ethernet ports ports available on the rear of the server. Move your cable to one of those and then try accessing the server 

 

use 192.168.0.7 as the ip address

There are two ethernet ports: LAN1 and LAN2.

 

Initially it was connected to LAN1 and you are suggesting me to connect to LAN2.

 

After I use LAN2 instead of LAN1, I can no longer access the server through ip.

 

I can not ping tower.local either.

 

I am attaching the screen shot for ifconfig of LAN2.

Question :

You did the Pre-clears before ever booting Unraid and entering settings etc ?

 

When using ethernet #1 did you try 

 

http://tower:8080/myMain/ 

or 

http://tower:8080/unraid_main

or

192.268.0.7

I just tried all three and only "192.168.0.7" works for me.

 

It is somewhat strange since "ping tower.local" works.

Yes, 192.168.0.7 is the ip address of unRAID according to your screenshot ifconfig. When you ping tower.local, does it come back with that ip address?

Try also putting HTTP:// in front of tower/local

 

http://tower.local

http://HTTP://tower.local is not working.

 

The following is the screen shot for ping

Sorry my typing error

There should be only one http:// in front of tower.local

 

Anyway you have the correct ip so start entering your settings and enjoy Unraid

http://tower.local is not working either.

I don't have a mac so I don't know the idiosyncrasies of getting a host name associated with an ip address in that environment. One thing that works for me with a windows network is to make unRAID the local master under SMB. Don't know if you are using SMB or not.

 

If you want to try that you can find it under Settings - SMB. You may have to shutdown the other computers on the network so unRAID can take over as the local master.

 

Another possibility if your router supports it is to reserve an ip address for the unRAID mac address. It might be that if you associate a host name that way it would help.

Thanks for trying.  I think there is a lot to learn.  SMB is for Windows.  I will be using AFP for mac.

 

At least I can connect to the server using ip and that is enough for me at this moment.

 

Thanks again.

 

 

Muon

 

instead of Tower.main which does not work on my system either

 

try tower/main instead

 

Stew

tower/main is not working.

 

I guess it is important how you format the entry

 

Only  http://tower/Main or tower/Main  with a capital M works on my server

 

 

http://tower/Main generates "This webpage is not available" message.

 

But I restart my mac and tried "tower.local" and it is working now.

Well, I thought it was working with "tower.local".

 

Actually it is not.  I tried to type it one more time and it is not working.

 

It is very confusing...

When I type "tower.local" on browser, it will be redirected to http://search.daum.net/nate?w=tot&q=tower.local&thr=&sc=ba&afc=A260000001.

 

Something that I've never seen before.  I tried three different browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) and the results are the same.

 

I am very confused...