hi, i'm new. i have an unraid w about 24TB, it usually works fine. didn't have internet access after a move, still tried to connect it to my mac pro tower, but no go. now i have internet, and i can see it show up in my finder as a shared server, and i can plug in the monitor/keyboard and see it boot... i login as root, and get a command prompt. but i still can't access it through the browser or the finder, on the mac.

 

any ideas what i can do to make it accessible in browser/finder again? thank you

 

 

 

Another question, while i'm posting here...

 

is there no faster way to transfer data, other than thru ethernet? trying to transfer folders that are 1-2 TB, takes days. it will take 2 days just to "Prepare the transfer...." and then take 1-2 days to actually transfer. I've read a little bit on here that you can maybe hook up drives internally and transfer using command line... but all that seems harder. i'm on a mac, and used to using eSata/fw800 or straight sata to sata drive transfers, which is sooooo much faster. there's no way to plugin a usb3 drive or esata external drive, and move files much faster, than thru ethernet cable? or is there a way to at least skip the "preparing transfer..." times? waiting several days for transferring data is killing me

Logging in from the monitor/keyboard isn't even necessary and totally unrelated to accessing the webUI.

 

What are the IP addresses of your mac and of your unRAID?

 

You can plug drives directly into unRAID and then transfer their data to your server using various methods. See the Unassigned Devices plugin for a start.

under network preferences, the ip for ethernet is 192.168.0.21, and under airport it is 169.254.189.136. not sure why airport is lit green, cuz there is no wireless card in this mac pro tower. the internet is hard wired to router via ethernet cable. another ethernet cable goes directly to unraid server. the unraid server to log into thru browser, should be http://10.11.12.55, which used to work fine until i moved. internet on the mac pro is working fine, but it won't logon to the server, sigh

You might try taking your flash drive from the server and renaming the file config/network.cfg to network.bak or something to let unRAID default to DHCP then boot it up and see if you can access it at http://tower or whatever you have named it.

thank you for your help! i backed up the file to another folder, then renamed it to network.bak, and re-booted the unraid. still doesn't appear as a server nor will browser see it

See link to v6 help sticky in my sig. It will tell you how to get a diagnostic from the command line to post.

thank you. diagnostic attached

unraid01-diagnostics-20160810-1313.zip

Your unRAID isn't getting an IP address. Are you sure it's connected to the router? Lit up on both ends of ethernet cable?

thanks for your help!

 

um... i have two ethernet ports on my mac pro tower, it's plugged into one of them, and the other is plugged into the cable modem. this is how it worked fine before... i also sometimes plug it into my laptop ethernet port, while the laptop has wireless, and it works.

 

why is not working now? is it simply because im getting a different internet connection?

alright, so i brought my macbook pro laptop home, and connected it to the serer via ethernet cable. laptop has wireless connection, similar as it was to my studio, but the unraid server is still not showing up in finder or available through browser...

 

is there something i have to do different, everytime i take it to a studio/home with different internet connection?!? this is extremely frustrating, days and days go by and i'm just losing work left and right

You don't connect Unraid directly to a laptop, you connect it to a router.

a router is not necessary, apparently, cuz i certainly didn't need it before. i don't really know how it works, it just did. clearly, i'm not very internet/protocol savvy or whatever, but it was working fine with my laptop on a wireless connection in the studio for several weeks, and then when i move to a new place and bring it home, even tho the computers have internet just like before, now it's not working.

 

is there something i need to command type or do to work?!? i've been searching, but this is all mumbo jumbo to me, really... i kinda wish i had just spent 2-3 times as much as money on a several larger RAID setups, because at least the data transfer is super fast and replacing RAID failed disks is easy. it just connects. everytime i want to transfer on or off or connect to this unraid, it's just nothing but a huge headache and days/weeks are just wasted. then all of a sudden after a reboot, somehow, shit works again. i don't get it. but it was working fine last week, moved to a new spot, and now it won't work again. both computers (tower and laptop), internet is working fine. unraid used to work fine like this, don't understand it won't now... ? !?

is there something in my mac network settings i need to adjust?!?

Connecting unraid to the device that is broadcasting your wireless ethernet (typically a router) is the easiest way to get it working.

 

If you insist on doing it the hard way, you are going to have to learn how to set up networking on whatever device you plug it into so unraid can connect through that device. I don't own a mac, so I can't help you with the details, but in general you need to either set up a unique static IP for unraid and the port you are plugged into on the mac, and set up routing information so that unraid can pass data through the mac. Or, if you can figure out how to set up your mac to provide dhcp and dns services to the wired connection instead of being a client, that would work too.

 

Unless you are willing to learn how all this stuff works, you are going to be frustrated with it if you insist on doing things the hard way. Much easier just to treat the unraid box like a normal NAS and plug it into your router.

 

Your mac and unraid are both set up by default to be clients on a network where the router is handing out addresses and telling the data where to go to get where you want it. If you want to change that, you have some reconfiguring to do.

Are you sure it was connected directly to the laptop previously and not to the wifi router?  While its possible to hook directly to the laptop, its all a hell of a lot easier to simply plug the server into the ethernet port on the router and be done with it.

 

Now, I'm not a network guy, but I would think that if you insist on connecting the ethernet directly to your laptop, (and it was working previously at a different location (presumably with a different wifi router)) is that your network.cfg file (flash drive, config folder) probably has the wrong subnet for the ip address or your laptop isn't set up as a DHCP server.

 

 

Unless you're connecting a NAS up via USB, networking is always going to be a PITA if you're not using a router to interconnect all of the devices on your network (router: routes data around from one device to another)

 

Jonathanm, thank you for your advice! i will look more into the network settings.

 

but yes, last week, i could walk into my studio to the lapto, which is online through a standard wireless connection (i think it's AT&T uverse there), and boot up my unraid. with the ethernet plugged into my ethernet port on the laptop and the laptop getting wireless signla... idunno, it just worked. previously, my IT friend would help me, but he's not available at the moment (he just had a kid).

 

anyway, it wasn't that hard to get working before... somehow. but aggggh, this is frustrating.

 

in my new residence, i have a 25 + 50 ft cable attached together, to get a hardline signal for my tower, which has no wireless card and it does all my heavy internet downloading/transferring work. the laptop i take back and forth to the studio now. but neither is working with the unraid at this moment, only after i moved. it was working fine before, this way. no router in the middle. maybe i can getone for cheap, and put in line btw the main router, and my tower? and then unraid into that router?

Jonathanm, thank you for your advice! i will look more into the network settings.

 

but yes, last week, i could walk into my studio to the lapto, which is online through a standard wireless connection (i think it's AT&T uverse there), and boot up my unraid. with the ethernet plugged into my ethernet port on the laptop and the laptop getting wireless signla... idunno, it just worked. previously, my IT friend would help me, but he's not available at the moment (he just had a kid).

 

anyway, it wasn't that hard to get working before... somehow. but aggggh, this is frustrating.

 

in my new residence, i have a 25 + 50 ft cable attached together, to get a hardline signal for my tower, which has no wireless card and it does all my heavy internet downloading/transferring work. the laptop i take back and forth to the studio now. but neither is working with the unraid at this moment, only after i moved. it was working fine before, this way. no router in the middle. maybe i can getone for cheap, and put in line btw the main router, and my tower? and then unraid into that router?

I think you're misunderstanding.  You don't need another router.  Plug the server into the main router, along with your tower and your laptop (via wifi).  If you don't have enough ethernet ports on the existing router, then all you need to buy is a cheap switch.  From the router to the switch, and then to all of your attached devices.

 

Getting another router and putting it in the middle of everything is going to add another layer of complexity into the mix.

ok, so i need a switch, then?

 

only one router and it's up 3 stories... the 25 ft and 50 ft cable are linked together and is the only connection, no chance for another cable that length... it's going out a bedroom window and up 3 stories into another window, at the moment

Yeah  cable from router goes to the switch  cables from switch goes to tower and server

 

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ok, so i got a switch. i can now see unraid in my finder, on left. i can login to both root/user there, or with monitor plugged into unraid, i can login as root, there... to a prompt.

 

but i still can't login completely on my browser, to START the array, or even in my Finder, as when i login, it just doesn't do anything. it accepts my username and pw, but then nothing...

 

root command prompt on the unraid just flashing.... what should i type/do now?

 

thank you!

 

 

Edit: I have re-launched Finder, and have been using Search to look for a command prompt to start the array, like "prompt array" or "start array" but the search function here is not showing very many responses, or if it does, it's a bunch of info not really related to what i'm looking for...

 

is there a basic prompt command line sheet, posted somewhere? i'm looking for that...

or is there something else i'm missing? everything else seems to be working, with the switch

Ignore the login on the monitor screen attached to your server for the time being. To start the array you need to access the GUI in a web browser.

 

What name did you give to your unRAID server? If you didn't give it one, then the default name is "tower". To access the GUI open your Mac's web browser and type

 

http://tower.local

 

into the address field. From your earlier postings it seems likely that you were previously accessing the sever by means of an IP address, which is now almost certainly invalid. If you have set a root password you'll need to enter it to gain access to the GUI. From there you should be able to start the array. Until the array is started you won't be able to access your shares in the Finder.