Every time I try and connect to my unRAID server, it seems drives need to spin up or something as I get the windows credentials box.  If I cancel that, and try and reach unRAID again, I get the same credentials box.  If I cancel that and try and reach unRAID, it finally shows me the users shares.  So instead of going through this dance every time, is there a setting that just lets Windows spend more time waiting before it times out, so I don't have to go through 2 rounds of pointless credentials boxes?  Even if I enter the credentials again (which it already knows), it won't connect either because the problem is really that SMB is not reach for a connection yet.

 

In general, what causes this behavior anyways?  If I only have user shares, doesn't that mean the file names are already cache in memory?  Why should Windows need to wait for the disks to spin up?  I thought that was the point of caching the directory contents.

 

 

How are you connecting?  Through mapped drives or through network places?  I don't use mapped drives and have never seen this problem

 

No, no mapping.  I just type the server name in the Address Bar.  \\<servername>

I also get this problem as well from time to time and haven't yet found a  solution.

 

(Having said that, I honestly haven't looked too hard...  )