I'm still a newbie to unraid and networking so please forgive. I have unraid networking presently set to host with a static IP. If I set this to bridged with a static IP, will I still be able to access the web gui same as before (using tower/)? And if I should screw something up, I've read (I think) that I can take the flash drive to another machine and edit a config file manually. But I have the flash drive in another machine right now and I find no /boot directory??? Is that something I would have to access at the unraid console?

 

Thanks for any help!

The  /boot  is a part of the Linux path.  It will not show up on your Windows computer.  Thus  /boot/config  becomes /config folder on your flash drive on your Windows computer.

 

Regarding the network question.  You will always to able to access your server's GUI by using the ip address-- (i.e., http://192.X.X.X).  Whether you can use the server name will depend on your router.  If you 'tell' the router that you have manually assigned a static IP address to your server, it should work.  If you simply assigned the address high up in the address range with the sure and certain knowledge that the router will never need to use that address, the answer is most probably 'No'.

 

(I have used the second method and have a 'favorite' setup using the IP address of my server.  As you may know, the actual IP address will always work! The URL (server name in this case) requires the use of some type of DNS server.  That server in the case of your server name will be your router.  If it doesn't find it there, it will go to a DNS server somewhere out on the WAN to resolve the name into an IP address.)

Thanks very much!!