Hello everyone. im new to unraid and have successfully installed 4.2 to a microcenter 4gig usb drive which successfully boots up unraid 4.2. However, when I logon through a pc on my network in the IE address line (\\tower), my network share pops up displaying the flash drive and the files on it along side a printer icon. I clicked on the flash drive and it has the install files that were placed on the flash drive in order to make it bootable. I am confused. I go back to my unraid box and logon with "root" and it gives me a prompt(root@Tower:~#). I return and try to login again using \\tower but i still get the files shares pop up. I still cant get to this "Web-based User Interface" that everyone ios speaking of. Please help someone.

 

Thank you,

 

the TRUTH

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4.2 or 4.4.2?

 

Please click on the Troubleshooting link in my sig and follow the directions to post a syslog.  That's the best place to start it you are having any problems.

Hello everyone. im new to unraid and have successfully installed 4.2 to a microcenter 4gig usb drive which successfully boots up unraid 4.2. However, when I logon through a pc on my network in the IE address line (\\tower), my network share pops up displaying the flash drive and the files on it along side a printer icon. I clicked on the flash drive and it has the install files that were placed on the flash drive in order to make it bootable. I am confused. I go back to my unraid box and logon with "root" and it gives me a prompt(root@Tower:~#). I return and try to login again using \\tower but i still get the files shares pop up. I still cant get to this "Web-based User Interface" that everyone ios speaking of. Please help someone.

 

Thank you,

 

the TRUTH

614searchDotCom

 

you need to use //tower not \\tower... \\tower means "find the samba share associated with a computer name of Tower" and hence why you are getting files and not the interface... if you use //tower, then you are telling your computer to look for the webpage defined by the domain Tower (which is what you want)

 

Cheers,

Matt

Would it help to change this line in the Official Manual:

 

Example: Where you would normally type "http://www.google.com" type "//tower" to enter the Management Utility.

 

to:

 

Example: Where you would normally type "http://www.google.com" type "http://tower/" to enter the Management Utility.

 

That is as long as people are reading that properly when setting up unRAID for the first time.

Would it help to change this line in the Official Manual:

 

Example: Where you would normally type "http://www.google.com" type "//tower" to enter the Management Utility.

 

to:

 

Example: Where you would normally type "http://www.google.com" type "http://tower/" to enter the Management Utility.

 

That is as long as people are reading that properly when setting up unRAID for the first time.

 

I don't think so.. it's not technically wrong... //tower will bring up the web interface one way of another... even from a windows explorer window.  Knowing which slash to use to view a webpage and which one to use to define directories is an important distinction and the user should know the difference. 

 

Slashes are to computer what punctuation is to english... I can't exchange a question mark for an exclamation mark and expect my sentence to maintain the same meaning just as I can't exchange slashes in a web address and expect it to take me to the right place (it has also lost it's meaning).

 

Cheers,

Matt