Hi guys,

 

I'm just about done setting up my array after a few hiccups. Now I'm down to my last one.

 

Prior to this, I was troubleshooting my array and trying to figure out which part of the network was the problem, it turned out to be the onboard LAN. I've since rectified this with a PCI NIC.

 

However, once I plugged everything back to the original router and such, I can no longer access the unRAID menu via //tower, access via direct IP address works fine.

 

I've already tried going into my command prompt and flushing the DNS with "ipconfig /flushdns" as recommended here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4383.msg39726#msg39726 but the problem has not been resolved.

 

It's a minor inconvenience but I would prefer to be able to access the menu via the regular //tower instead of typing in the IP address.

 

Any other ideas how I can rectify this?

 

Thanks so much again for the help!

Ervine

\\tower.

No I mean I want to access the menu, I can access the array just fine...

your routers ip tables may not have updated yet.

Hm.. how long does that usually take? It's been more than a day... 

It's been 2 days, still the same. I still need to access the array via direct ip... any ideas?

It's been 2 days, still the same. I still need to access the array via direct ip... any ideas?

 

Try checking the HOSTS file on your computer and also try power down the router for 30 seconds and powering it back up.

Check what name you configured the server to be called.

 

http://tower/settings.htm

 

Next try pinging that name from a cmd prompt

 

ping tower

 

this should report something like the following:

 

Pinging tower [ip address here] with 32 bytes of data

 

Reply from ip address: bytes = 32 time >1 ms TTL=64

repeat

repeat

repeat

 

Or something like that

 

If this isnt working (Unknown host, could not find host) it means name resolution isnt working. As mentioned before you can manually assign an ip address to the name in the hosts file.

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

 

It's just a txt file so open it and add the following line (assumes default name and IP address): This will hard code tower to 192.168.1.10 from that machine.

 

192.168.1.10    Tower

 

Some routers will allow you to manually add a host name to an IP address, you could enable master browser on one of your computers,

I tried rebooting the router, turning it off for 1min, turning everything else off etc etc nothing worked. In my router's configuration menu I can see my array's name, but somehow when I ping it or try to access it via //(name of array) it just refuses to work.

 

Thankfully editing the host file worked!! Awesome... thanks so much for the help!