I finally got everything to work (and had to look around for a while before I found the trick to getting //tower to show up in a Mac), let's just say I'm not overly impressed with the documentation and user friendliness of unraid yet.

 

Thankfully the community is awesome, so here's my problem now: I'm getting ridiculous unusable speeds. 30 min to copy a 1.6 GB file. That's slower than downloading it again!

 

I haven't enabled a parity disk yet so it'll go faster (I dread to think when it has to calculate parity). Needless to say, even if I leave it overnight it's gonna take several days to copy all my stuff, maybe even weeks. Am I doing something wrong? I looked over at the tips, but didn't find anything I could use.

 

Edit: I don't know what happened, I changed nothing, but now it's going at a decent speed. it says 2 hours for 90 GB, which seems very reasonable. I just did in 2 min what took me 30 mins just a little while ago. I have no idea what's going on, but I'm happy at the moment.

If you're having issues, post a syslog.

 

The problem could have been on the client side reading the content you're sending and have nothing to do with the server at all. It's hard to tell without any information posted.

I finally got everything to work (and had to look around for a while before I found the trick to getting //tower to show up in a Mac), let's just say I'm not overly impressed with the documentation and user friendliness of unraid yet.

 

Thankfully the community is awesome, so here's my problem now: I'm getting ridiculous unusable speeds. 30 min to copy a 1.6 GB file. That's slower than downloading it again!

 

I haven't enabled a parity disk yet so it'll go faster (I dread to think when it has to calculate parity). Needless to say, even if I leave it overnight it's gonna take several days to copy all my stuff, maybe even weeks. Am I doing something wrong? I looked over at the tips, but didn't find anything I could use.

 

Edit: I don't know what happened, I changed nothing, but now it's going at a decent speed. it says 2 hours for 90 GB, which seems very reasonable. I just did in 2 min what took me 30 mins just a little while ago. I have no idea what's going on, but I'm happy at the moment.

 

Set the unRAID server as the master browser for your network and that should at least help with getting the tower to show up in finder.  Also have a look through the un-official manual.  In there it tells you how to set up an entry in your hosts file on your mac so that //tower works.  You will need a static IP set on the unRAID box for this to work reliably.

 

There is a lot of documentation out in the wiki, but it can be a little daunting to get to.

Set the unRAID server as the master browser for your network and that should at least help with getting the tower to show up in finder.  Also have a look through the un-official manual.  In there it tells you how to set up an entry in your hosts file on your mac so that //tower works.  You will need a static IP set on the unRAID box for this to work reliably.

 

There is a lot of documentation out in the wiki, but it can be a little daunting to get to.

 

To be honest I have no idea what I did, I wasn't seeing the server neither in my Windows notebook nor my Mac (even though I could see the web utility) I just changed the name of the network in unraid to Home and could see it in my notebook. After a while it also appeared on my Mac. And then the speed issue also went away on it's own, so I'm pretty pleased right now with how it's working.

[To be honest I have no idea what I did, I wasn't seeing the server neither in my Windows notebook nor my Mac (even though I could see the web utility) I just changed the name of the network in unraid to Home and could see it in my notebook. After a while it also appeared on my Mac. And then the speed issue also went away on it's own, so I'm pretty pleased right now with how it's working.

 

That is what resolved your issues. Bet the network group for your notebook and mac are both Home.  So now is all in the same workgroup

[To be honest I have no idea what I did, I wasn't seeing the server neither in my Windows notebook nor my Mac (even though I could see the web utility) I just changed the name of the network in unraid to Home and could see it in my notebook. After a while it also appeared on my Mac. And then the speed issue also went away on it's own, so I'm pretty pleased right now with how it's working.

 

That is what resolved your issues. Bet the network group for your notebook and mac are both Home.  So now is all in the same workgroup

 

I don't think so. I had done that before the speed issue went away, I literally did nothing to fix it. Now after I had to reboot the Mac the server didn't appear on the shared tab anymore. I didn't have a lot of time to look into it, but it appeared fine on the Windows notebook (and the notebook appeared on the mac since I had previously set up some shared folders). I don't know that name of the workgroup the Mac is in, so I'll look into that when I get home. Hopefully the speed thing doesn't come back.

As another Mac/unRAID user, I'd highly suggest setting a static IP address for your tower. You don't have to use it regularly if a name address is working, but it reduces variables if you're having problems connecting.

As another Mac/unRAID user, I'd highly suggest setting a static IP address for your tower. You don't have to use it regularly if a name address is working, but it reduces variables if you're having problems connecting.

 

I don't think that's my problem. I can get to the web GUI just fine, also the shares are working without problem on PLEX (media center). It just won't show up on finder right now, which is really annoying.

As another Mac/unRAID user, I'd highly suggest setting a static IP address for your tower. You don't have to use it regularly if a name address is working, but it reduces variables if you're having problems connecting.

 

I don't think that's my problem. I can get to the web GUI just fine, also the shares are working without problem on PLEX (media center). It just won't show up on finder right now, which is really annoying.

 

Set the unRAID system as your master browser and that will help for sure.  It may not fix the problem but I should help.