Alright, so I just got my unRAID flashdrive booted up on the server, and I can't seem to access the server from other computers on my network. The console on the server shows that the DHCP server gave the eth0 interface the IP address 192.168.5.204 but when I try to navigate to that via another computer's web browser, it says that the website took too long to respond. Same results when navigating to "//tower" or "http://tower"    As the server has two NICs, I tried unplugging one, and using the other - but no luck. Same thing when I try the other interface on its own.

 

Any advice?

 

A quick note - My network doesn't have any VLANs, and only one subnet, so there shouldn't be any network issues (router is pfSense if that matters)

First thing to check is if the flash drive is mounted. It needs to be FAT32, with a label of UNRAID. Either telnet to the servers IP, or at the local console check the contents of the /boot folder using

ls -al /boot

It should show everything that you copied to the flash drive when you prepared it.

I actually ordered the flashdrive straight from Lime tech as to avoid any issues related to this. Should I still check this?

 

Thanks for the help!

It would be helpful to see what the results are in any case.

Results here : imgur.com/BSEyGPA

 

Cheers!

Looks good so far. Can you ping your gateway from the server console?

Somehow, I cannot. Any ideas on the cause? Could assigning a static IP help here? 

 

UPDATE: Setting a static IP did not resolve the problem. Pinging my gateway still results in a "Destination Host Unreachable" error. I've tried another computer on the same cables and ports that connect my server and I'm having no issues communicating with the network.

You can try running the

ifconfig -a

command from the unRAID console.  That will confirm whether the IP address has been allocated as you expect, and also that the gateway and DNS servers look OK.

Just entered that command and got this : 

 

 

The settings I want are

 

IP = 192.168.5.42

NetMask = 255.255.255.0

Gateway = 192.168.5.1

 

I'm not sure what the "Broadcast" address is?

 

Also - You had mentioned that this should display DNS servers - I'm not seeing them here. Is that normal?

Maybe you should just plug the USB Flash drive into a separate PC and check that it has everything on it.

@HCStrike

 

I actually ordered the flash drive form Lime Tech pre-configured, so everything should be on there, but we went ahead and checked this just in case (link is posted earlier in thread)

These are the steps quoted from the LimeTech website

Preparing your USB Flash Device

Insert the 512MB or larger flash device to your Mac or PC

Format the device using the FAT (or FAT32) file system.

Set the ‘volume label’ to UNRAID (case-sensitive; all caps).

Click here to go to the downloads page.

Choose a version and download it to a temporary location on your computer (e.g. a “downloads” folder).

Extract the contents of the newly downloaded ZIP file onto your USB flash device.

Browse to the USB flash device to see the newly extracted contents from your Mac or PC.

Run the make bootable script.

From Windows XP, just double-click the make_bootable file.

From Windows 7 or later, right-click the file and select ‘Run as Administrator’.

From Mac devices, double-click the file ‘make_bootable_mac’ and enter your admin password when prompted.

NOTE:  during the process of running this script, the flash device may seem to disappear and reappear on your workstation a few times – this is expected behavior.

 

Maybe the make_bootable file wasn't opened

@HCStrike

 

If this was the case, wouldn't the server not boot to the flash drive at all? Or would it still boot and act strangely? (ie not be able to connect to network)

Not sure just an idea

I've attached a copy of the syslog just in case there is some sort of hardware issue going on here...

 

I read that some broadcom NICs (which this server has)(Dell Poweredge 1950 gen II) are missing drivers in the Linux kernel. I found a post that said these drivers have been added to the recent unRAID versions, but I'm not 100% sure as the post was for a PE 2950 which is a touch different.  I'm led to believe that this isn't the case, though, because the NIC can communicate with my DHCP server to get an IP. Thoughts?

 

Any confirmed working systems with Dell Poweredge 1950s?

syslog.txt