May 19, 200917 yr I just got my UnRaid server up and running. I am able to access the GUI from the browser using //tower and everything appears to be setup and working correctly however my disks are not showing up in my "networks" view. I have tried from two different computers and neither can see the tower server. If I type //tower in the networks view it brings up all disks. Is there something i'm doing wrong or something I missed? EDIT: I should add that I have changed the workgroup so it is the same on all computers including unraid.
May 19, 200917 yr theres not much you can do it's more of a windows problem more then anything.. it's happened to me not showing other computers automaticly in the my network.. just keep doing the //tower for now it will show up eventualy... try restarting the comptuer
May 19, 200917 yr Still haven't shown up... there must be something I can do They showed up immediately on my Mac I had to reset my PC for them to show. Give it a try.
May 19, 200917 yr I may be a little confused about your post, but a couple things: Make sure you are typing the slashes the correct way for Windows, which is "\\tower" instead of "//tower" as listed in your post. It sounds like you are setting up user shares within UnRAID, how are you exporting your shares? (visible/hidden, read/write, ...) It should be in the Shares section of the web interface.
May 21, 200917 yr Author I may be a little confused about your post, but a couple things: Make sure you are typing the slashes the correct way for Windows, which is "\\tower" instead of "//tower" as listed in your post. It sounds like you are setting up user shares within UnRAID, how are you exporting your shares? (visible/hidden, read/write, ...) It should be in the Shares section of the web interface. Issue is still ongoing. None of my computers have detected Tower in My Networks. That was indeed a typo for \\tower I left my shares pretty much to default. Everything is set to export/read write (SNB)
May 22, 200917 yr Sorry for a really basic question, but did you reboot each machine after changing the workgroup name?
May 22, 200917 yr Author Yeah all my PCs have been rebooted since then. I didn't change the workgroup for my PCs, just the workgroup for the server.
May 22, 200917 yr Once again, lets squash a little confusion. Forgive me if I'm stumbling on the reading comprehension part. When you say: I am able to access the GUI from the browser using //tower and everything appears to be setup and working correctly however my disks are not showing up in my "networks" view. It sounds like you aren't seeing any disks. Then: If I type //tower in the networks view it brings up all disks. I will go out on a limb here and guess that it may be one of these few possibilities: - You are rightfully expecting to see the disks in \\tower but they're not showing up - You meant to type "shares" instead of "disks" in the first quote, and you are seeing the default disk shares (disk1, disk2, etc.) but not user shares (movies, tv, etc) - You want the shares to appear in Networks without having to browse through \\tower - You can access \\tower by typing it in, but not by simply browsing through Networks - You can't access \\tower shares at all Or is it something else? A few things you may want to try: -Ensure your clocks on your computers and server are sync'ed (should need to be within 5mins of eachother) -Post a screenshot of your shares setup for us to take a peak at -Post your syslog
May 24, 200917 yr Author Once again, lets squash a little confusion. Forgive me if I'm stumbling on the reading comprehension part. When you say: I am able to access the GUI from the browser using //tower and everything appears to be setup and working correctly however my disks are not showing up in my "networks" view. It sounds like you aren't seeing any disks. Then: If I type //tower in the networks view it brings up all disks. I will go out on a limb here and guess that it may be one of these few possibilities: - You are rightfully expecting to see the disks in \\tower but they're not showing up - You meant to type "shares" instead of "disks" in the first quote, and you are seeing the default disk shares (disk1, disk2, etc.) but not user shares (movies, tv, etc) - You want the shares to appear in Networks without having to browse through \\tower - You can access \\tower by typing it in, but not by simply browsing through Networks - You can't access \\tower shares at all Or is it something else? A few things you may want to try: -Ensure your clocks on your computers and server are sync'ed (should need to be within 5mins of eachother) -Post a screenshot of your shares setup for us to take a peak at -Post your syslog I'll try to clear this up. When i go into "My Networks" I see all my computers attached to my network. For some reason my UnRaid server is not there. I was under the impression you should see the server in your workgroup network. I can bring up the server using \\tower which shows me all my disks and shares. Everything else seems to be working perfectly however nothing has ever shown up in "My Networks". Time is set correctly for all computers. I'll start with the SS and syslogs as soon as I get a chance.
May 25, 200917 yr A duplicate IP address? Double check your network settings? Can you describe your network further? Router? Switch? How are IP addresses assigned? Vista has always done a very good job of detecting what was on the network for me. XP has not - it would still show shares that weren't there anymore and not detect new shares until I manually accessed them. Peter
May 25, 200917 yr Author I'm not particularly skilled with networking but i'll tell you what I know. I'm using a Airport Express Extreme and it automates everything. I've never had a problem with computers not showing up in the network view before. I doubt there is a duplicate IP address... wouldn't it simply not work at all? There is no switch. IP addresses are automatically assigned.
May 27, 200917 yr I really don't know. It will most likely be a problem on the Windows computer. Double check that IP addresses are automatically assigned for every computer. You could also try using a fixed IP address for the server, say xxx.xxx.xxx.200 or something else that would have little chance of being assigned by the router. Peter
July 23, 200916 yr My problem is similar to this one. Ive stuck two 1TB drives in server and parity has been setup and 1 drive assigned in shares i did nothing but name it disk 1. When i return to windows vista and view network i can see my vista pc and the TOWER icon but when i try and access TOWER icon i get error Network Error WINDOWS CANNOT ACCESS \\TOWER Check spelling of the name. Otherwise there might be a problem with network. I really cant seem to work out whats wrong as until i can see the drive i cannot copy movies across onto server drive from windows pc (doing my head in) cheers
July 23, 200916 yr Welcome to the wonderful world of windows networking. The nitty gritty of how the browse list of machines in your workgroup is constructed is not pleasant reading and it's a miracle it works at all! You could try setting the master browser option of unraid to be on : http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Manual#Local_master This has previously 'helped' but not necessarily resolved the issue for me on mixed samba and windows networks (500+ machines, split over 3 subnets using wins - all with browsing mostly working). This will force your unraid server to always win the master browser election and be the authoritative machine for that workgroup. As an aside, although it's pleasant to have unraid show up in network places / network neighbourhood / whatever it is called today - never ever rely on it as it's reasonably unreliable and can be there one minute and gone the next.
July 30, 200916 yr one question that has not been asked yet, is have you run the network setup wizard? That will normally fix any issue of pc's not being able to see each other on the network
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