How to access Unassigned Devices

[RichardU]

I have a Win10 VM running on an Unraid 6 machine. Also on that machine is an unassigned disk. So how do I access this disk from within the Win10 VM?

 

I can map it as a network drive. I guess that means to write to the disk, I am going out the ethernet port to the switch, then back to the same ethernet port where I am talking to the Unraid server. That seems like it would create a lot of ethernet traffic, when I really want to talk to a disk that is just one SATA connector away.

 

Thanks, Richard

[zzgus]

Refloat this topic to post a similar problem.

I also have a W10 VM Machine on unRaid 6.

 

I had a 500GB NTFS HD connected to the computer using unassigned devices without any problem.

I did not remember if I had to put any user / password to got access to it.

 

Yesterday there was a power failure in my zone and today when I try to access the 500gb under w10 vm I need to put a username/password.

 

I'm sure I haven't used any user/password to access the drive as unassigned doesn't create any share at all, Am I wrong?

 

Why W10 VM ask me for a user/password to access the drive?

 

Thankyou

Gus

 

 

 

[saarg]

I have a Win10 VM running on an Unraid 6 machine. Also on that machine is an unassigned disk. So how do I access this disk from within the Win10 VM?

 

I can map it as a network drive. I guess that means to write to the disk, I am going out the ethernet port to the switch, then back to the same ethernet port where I am talking to the Unraid server. That seems like it would create a lot of ethernet traffic, when I really want to talk to a disk that is just one SATA connector away.

 

Thanks, Richard

 

Everything is done internally in unraid, so you can still continue to map it as a network drive. I don't have the post available, but jonp mentioned this in a post a long time ago.

[zzgus]

Here is the log:

 

Jun 14 23:09:38 Adding disk '/dev/sdd1'...

Jun 14 23:09:38 Mount drive command: /sbin/mount -t ntfs -o auto,async,nodev,nosuid,umask=000 '/dev/sdd1' '/mnt/disks/500GB'

Jun 14 23:09:38 Successfully mounted '/dev/sdd1' on '/mnt/disks/500GB'.

Jun 14 23:09:38 Error: No valid smb users defined. Share '/mnt/disks/500GB' cannot be accessed.

Jun 14 23:09:38 Defining share '500GB' on file '/etc/samba/unassigned-shares/500GB.conf'

Jun 14 23:09:38 Adding share '500GB' to '/boot/config/smb-extra.conf'

Jun 14 23:09:38 Reloading Samba configuration...

Jun 14 23:09:38 Directory '/mnt/disks/500GB' shared successfully.

Jun 14 23:09:39 Device '/dev/sdd1' script file not found. 'ADD' script not executed.

 

Any idea why I can't access the share and how to solve it?

 

Thankyou

Gus

 

[zzgus]

Any idea why I can't access the share and how to solve it?

 

Thankyou

Gus

 

Solved.

There is a UD page config to modifiy SMB shares.

 

Gus

[testdasi]

I have a Win10 VM running on an Unraid 6 machine. Also on that machine is an unassigned disk. So how do I access this disk from within the Win10 VM?

 

I can map it as a network drive. I guess that means to write to the disk, I am going out the ethernet port to the switch, then back to the same ethernet port where I am talking to the Unraid server. That seems like it would create a lot of ethernet traffic, when I really want to talk to a disk that is just one SATA connector away.

 

Thanks, Richard

 

The unRAID bridge is 10Mbps (>1GB/s) so you will not be bottle-necked by the connection (albeit with increased latency).

 

If you want direct access to the drive (i.e. without any network overhead) then best way is to passthrough the SATA bus. You can passthrough just 1 bus (instead of the entire controller).