brand new to unraid, kinda familiar with linux/unix.  Just installed unraid last night and everything looks fine in the web client, but I can not find my user shares on any of my home computers.  I have tried from a mac, vista, xp, and windows 7 machine.....

 

Here is an example of one of my usershares (all i want to do is have my movies is a single folder called movies)

name: movies

comments: movies

allocation method: High-water

Min. free space: 10000

Split Lvl: 1

included disk:

excluded disk:

Export(SMB):

Export(NFS):

 

From telneting into my server I see the share .cfg files

 

root@Tower:/boot/config/shares# ls

Movies.cfg*  Music.cfg*

root@Tower:/boot/config/shares# cat Movies.cfg

# Generated settings:

shareExport=e

shareExportNfs=

shareComment=Movies

shareValidUsers=

shareInvalidUsers=

shareExceptions=

shareInclude=

shareExclude=

shareAllocator=highwater

shareSplitLevel=1

shareFloor=100MB

root@Tower:/boot/config/shares#

 

Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks,

 

Have you set the workgroup to be the same as the other machines on your LAN?

 

Have you tried setting the unRAID server as the "Master Browser" ?

 

Joe L.

I have set my xp and vista machines to the Mshome workgroup, still no luck seeing the user shares from either of them.  Would doing something like \\ipaddress\disk1$ work to view the drives?  I guess I'm missing the part about how users typically r/w to the user shares.  At work we have shared windows drives and I can map to them and use them in that fashion, can you map to a user share?  I'm sorry I'm such a newb but I have been reading through the wiki and forum on user shares and I just havent been seeing much info on how to go about connecting to the shares....

 

Thanks!

I have set my xp and vista machines to the Mshome workgroup, still no luck seeing the user shares from either of them.  Would doing something like \\ipaddress\disk1$ work to view the drives?  I guess I'm missing the part about how users typically r/w to the user shares.  At work we have shared windows drives and I can map to them and use them in that fashion, can you map to a user share?  I'm sorry I'm such a newb but I have been reading through the wiki and forum on user shares and I just havent been seeing much info on how to go about connecting to the shares....

 

Thanks!

But have you set the workgroup on unRAID in its configuration web-page to Mshome?  Have you enabled it to be the master browser?

 

The "master browser" is a PC on your LAN that every 10 minutes or so keeps track of the available shares on the LAN.

 

This is a windows concept, so it you have a MAC, configuration will be different.

 

The user shares are automatically created and named after each of the top level directories on your disks.  Do you have a top level folder on your disks named "movies" ??

 

What happens when you type

smbstatus -v

Thank you for your help, seems that the problem was the local master option.  As soon as I turned it on I was able to map to my disks.  Thanks for your help!!  Is there an unraid distro that has a java subsystem installed, I know it could be added but is there a version with it included?  I'm a java developer and would be interested in writing custom apps to send reports, and alerts.

 

Thanks,

 

Chris

Thank you for your help, seems that the problem was the local master option.  As soon as I turned it on I was able to map to my disks.  Thanks for your help!!  Is there an unraid distro that has a java subsystem installed, I know it could be added but is there a version with it included?  I'm a java developer and would be interested in writing custom apps to send reports, and alerts.

 

Thanks,

 

Chris

Install the unmenu add-on.  It has a package manager and with two button clicks you can get the java run-time environment installed.

 

Instructions to install it are here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5902.msg55824#msg55824

 

If you find a Java-development package for Slackware, I can add it as another package for download.