Hi, I'm new to unRAID, but I've been trying to get this working for a while now.  Almost everything seems to be running fine except I cannot create any Shares.  When I click to create a Share (I already have them enabled) it refreshes the screen, but the new share is not listed on the page as I think it should be.  I am able to map a network drive to the \\TOWER\flash folder but I cannot see any of the Shares I created.  Under flash/config/shares I can see .cfg files for each of the Shares I created, but again, I cannot seem to find the shares.  Currently listed under \\TOWER is the \flash folder (my flash drive) and \Printers (not sure why that's there).  I can read and write to the flash drive, but I don't have a listing of the disks of my array or anything.

 

I am using Vista right now, but I might restart into Ubuntu to test, but I think the problem may be with the unRAID machine.  Right now in the unRAID machine I only have 2 hard drives.  One of them is 160GB (my parity) and the other is like 40GB I think.  I'm just using this machine as a test bed before implementing the unRAID solution on a new machine.  And yes, I have chosen the correct drives for "parity device" and "disk 1 device" under the Devices page.  Any ideas?  Thanks for the help.

I just wanted to add.  I currently don't have any data on any of the drives (I'm assuming they were wiped in the install process).  Although the creation of the parity drive did take about 45 minutes and I was never sure why since I didn't have any data on the drive.  I'm not sure if that matters.  But when I enable Shares its supposed to create Shares based on the top level folders.  Since I don't have any data of course nothing was created, but I'm having trouble creating any Shares at all or even browsing to the drive itself so that I can drop things into it.

The last time I remember that someone had a similar issue, with a Printers item listed, they had an IP conflict with another device on the network.  unRAID does NOT have a Printers item, so if //Tower is showing one, then you may be looking at a different machine or device.  Try changing to a different static IP for your unRAID server.

 

I just wanted to add.  I currently don't have any data on any of the drives (I'm assuming they were wiped in the install process).  Although the creation of the parity drive did take about 45 minutes and I was never sure why since I didn't have any data on the drive.  I'm not sure if that matters.

 

unRAID parity is not based on data, but every bit of every data drive, including the formatting and file system structures.  Please see the FAQ entry, "How does parity work?"

 

 

Well the printer icon I see is actually just a "add or remove printers, view the print queues, ....".  It's not that it's an actual printer.  Also, I don't have anything else connected to the network anyway.  I tried moving to a static IP, but I'm getting the exact same symptoms.  Like I said, I can find the flash drive connected to the computer and view its contents.  I have added the 2 hard drives under the Devices page, but I can't see them under the TOWER.  Could it be a firewall issue?  I tried disabling the firewall on my router, but it didn't seem to change anything.  Anyone got another suggestion?  Thanks.

Well the printer icon I see is actually just a "add or remove printers, view the print queues, ....".  It's not that it's an actual printer.  Also, I don't have anything else connected to the network anyway.  I tried moving to a static IP, but I'm getting the exact same symptoms.  Like I said, I can find the flash drive connected to the computer and view its contents.  I have added the 2 hard drives under the Devices page, but I can't see them under the TOWER.  Could it be a firewall issue?  I tried disabling the firewall on my router, but it didn't seem to change anything.  Anyone got another suggestion?  Thanks.

To see the disks you would need to set them as  export-read/write, or export-read-only.  Do you by chance have the disks exported as hidden?

 

To see the user-shares, you would need to create them.  Perhaps you can share screen-shots of your Shares

Also, you might need to set windows explorer to make visible hidden and system files. (I know in the past you needed to do that to see the files on the flash drive)

 

As far as the "printer queue icon"  I see it on my Vista PC too.  It is probably something with the newer version of Samba in the unRAID OS, since it was not there in the past.

 

Joe L.

I figured it out!  It was a silly mistake, my new hard drive was still unformatted.  The directions say it should auto-format when inserted but I guess it didn't.  For some reason I didn't think much of the "unformatted" status of the disk.  Anyway, thanks for your help.  I've already got the drive mapped and it seems to be working great.