Hello all,

 

I'm looking to connect my Win 10 Pro Gaming PC to my Unraid server in order to transfer files. Many people have it show up in their "Network" section of Windows File Explorer, however I do not see it at all. 

 

I tried to set up an smb share in Krusader, but when I put in the IP address of my Gaming PC, I just get "Error: TImeout on Server".

 

Does anyone know how to see the Unraid server, or could point me to how to set it up?

 

 

27 minutes ago, Arcaeus said:

Hello all,

 

I'm looking to connect my Win 10 Pro Gaming PC to my Unraid server in order to transfer files. Many people have it show up in their "Network" section of Windows File Explorer, however I do not see it at all. 

 

I tried to set up an smb share in Krusader, but when I put in the IP address of my Gaming PC, I just get "Error: TImeout on Server".

 

Does anyone know how to see the Unraid server, or could point me to how to set it up?

 

 

In your win 10 machine type in IP address of your Unraid server. .....EX: 192.168.X.XXX

2 hours ago, Arcaeus said:

I'm looking to connect my Win 10 Pro Gaming PC to my Unraid server in order to transfer files. Many people have it show up in their "Network" section of Windows File Explorer, however I do not see it at all.

Have you enabled SMB in unRAID (Settings --> SMB)?

 

Have you exported the unRAID shares you wish to see in WIndows via SMB?

 

On the Windows machine, there might be several things that might cause your unRAID server to not appear.

 

See this thread (beginning on page 2) for suggestions you may try.  For me it was enabling SMB1/CIFS, for other it is enabling unsecure guest access or something else depending on current Windows settings.

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Hoopster

@Hoopster SMB is enabled in Unraid. Not sure what you mean by "exporting shares", do you have a link?

 

I'll take a look at that thread and see if anything there solves my issue.

 

@Harro I put the server's IP address into FIle explorer, and it just opened a new tab in Chrome of the Dashboard tab on my server.

6 minutes ago, Arcaeus said:

Not sure what you mean by "exporting shares", do you have a link?

Any share you want to show up in WIndows via the SMB protocol has to be exported.  Click on the share name in the Shares tab and set the desired SMB Security Settings.

 

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Hoopster

30 minutes ago, Arcaeus said:

I put the server's IP address into FIle explorer, and it just opened a new tab in Chrome of the Dashboard tab on my server.

\\IP-Address.  If you don't have the leading slashes, Windows thinks you want a web page

\\192.168.2.xx just yields "Windows cannot access \\192.168.2.xx" immediately.

 

I opened up Filezilla and tried to connect to a new server via sftp. It asked for a user and password, so I put in root and then went into Unraid > Users and set a password for it. It seemed to pull everything up and allowed me to send files from my desktop to the server.

 

However now, clicking on the various tabs in the Unraid webGUI, it takes forever to load the information and the array status indicator on the bottom left of the screen keeps flashing from "Array Started" to "Array undefined" every second or so. When I did get the Main tab to load, my OS flash drive and SSD cache drive were still mounted but was showing up under "Unassigned Devices". Now the Main tab just sits there saying "Please wait, retrieving information".

 

I have the Krusader webGUI opened in another tab to transfer files from a USB HDD connected directly to the server, and as far as I can see that is still transferring just fine. If I close the window and reopen it, is that going to hide the transfer status windows?

 

What did I break? 😂😂

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Arcaeus

Microsoft is attempting to lock down both preceived and real security SMB issues in Windows 10 and every new update seems to cause some new problem. (Plus those updates can happen in the  background and the unsuspecting user never even realizes what is going on!)   Getting access to Unraid servers is a recurring topic on this (and other) forums.  I would suggest that you start by reading through this thread (as previously suggested by @Hoopster).  The last couple of pages are almost exclusively Win10 problems and solutions.  Many of the posts will point you to other threads. 

 

      https://forums.unraid.net/topic/53172-windows-issues-with-unraid/

 

 

P.S.---  Be sure that you are using the Windows 10 File Explorer and not a Web browser when you enter \\192.168.XXX.X   Be sure that you have set up your UnRAID server as the Local Master and go through the steps to make sure that it is the Local Master.  See here:

 

      https://forums.unraid.net/topic/53172-windows-issues-with-unraid/?tab=comments#comment-536406

 

P.P.S.  You need to describe better how you are/were(?) transferring files to your Unraid server using a login with the user name of "root".  I thought that logging with root credentials for this purpose had been blocked several years back. 

@Frank1940 Ill check out those links and see if that solves my issues.

 

Here are my steps that I took (numbers in attached screenshot correspond to steps below):

1. Found IP address of server.
2. Opened Filezilla on my Gaming PC
3. Clicked on "Site Manager" on top left
4. Clicked "New Site"
5. Under "Host" put in server IP address
6. Under "User", put in "root" to match what I saw in Unraid GUI > User tab
7. In Unraid GUI > User tab, there was an option to change password
8. Changed password to something I knew.
9. In Filezilla Site Manager, I put the password I entered from step #8 in here
10. Clicked connect

 

1. Filezilla connected and showed me the folders in the server.
2. I transferred a test file to /mnt/disks as I thought that was moving it to the array.
3. Realized that it probably should have gone under /mnt/user/media (as I think it gives my user the right priviledges?)
4. In Krusader webGUI, right clicked on the file and selected delete
5. Back in Filezilla on Gaming PC, navigated to /mnt/user/Media on right side of Filezilla
6. dragged file from left side of Filezilla (host) to right side to initiate transfer.
7. Files transferred with no issues.
8. In Krusader webGUI, I could see files were there
9. Wanted them in the /mnt/user/Archives directory, so pulled that directory up on one side of Krusader
10. Dragged from one side to the other and selected "move here"
11. Clicked back into my Unraid webGUI tab and refreshed the "Main" page
12. The drives were showing up, despite the OS flash drive and cache drive being under "Unassigned Devices"
13. Now, I'm greeted with this:
14. 
15. And this:
16. 
17. And this:
18. 
19. But Krusader is still running fine (as far as I can tell):
20. 

So to me it seems like I messed up the main user account that allows the webGUI to send out/access the information.

 

Does that make more sense? I'm happy to clarify anything if you need me to.

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Arcaeus

Here's what it looked like before all of the information disappeared (step #12 above):

 

@Hoopster Ok, that makes more sense. Thank you.

 

However now, I see the shares, click on the settings for one, it tells me it's been deleted. I click "Done" and it returns me to the main Shares page, where it says "There are no exportable disk shares".

 

@Frank1940 I also attempted to install the Dynamix Local Masters plugin, but it just gets stuck on the "Updating Content" window after clicking on Apps.

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Arcaeus

Something appears to be seriously wrong with your setup as I look at the  screen captures that you have posted up.  

 

Let's start by getting a Diagnostics file for this server.  You do that by   Tools   >>>  Diagnostics    and that will download the file to your PC.  Uplopad that .zip file in your next post.  

Ok so I went to Tools > Diagnostics, clicked Download, and I saw the little Unraid icon pop up that it was collecting it. However, it led me to the attached picture.

 

It looks like it created the file based on the URL, but it's not initiating the download. I don't see it on the OS flash drive either, in case it may have copied it there. Refreshing does nothing, and most times it doesn't even start creating the diagnostic file.

 

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Arcaeus

32 minutes ago, Arcaeus said:

Ok so I went to Tools > Diagnostics, clicked Download, and I saw the little Unraid icon pop up that it was collecting it. However, it led me to the attached picture.

 

It looks like it created the file, but it's not initiating the download. I don't see it on the OS flash drive either, in case it may have copied it there.

 

Your setup is very messed up.  Can you get to a command prompt via an attached monitor and keyboard, the terminal in the GUI, SSH/PuTTY, etc?

 

If so, type 'diagnostics' at the command line.

 

You should see something like the screenshot below and diagnostics are saved to the logs folder on the flash drive.

 

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Hoopster

Holy cow, it actually worked, through TeamViewer. I didn't think that would work 😂😂

 

Here is the diagnostics file.

tower-diagnostics-20190205-0833.zip

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Arcaeus

24 minutes ago, Arcaeus said:

Holy cow, it actually worked, through TeamViewer. I didn't think that would work 😂😂

 

Here is the diagnostics file.

tower-diagnostics-20190205-0833.zip

All of the usual files were generated in your diagnostics, but, every one of them is blank. They contain no useful data.

 

I am thinking your unRAID flash drive is seriously messed up. 

 

Put it in a Windows PC and see if it detects corruption and wants to run chkdsk.

 

Weird. I'll have to do that tonight when I get home from work.

 

As dumb as it sounds, would rebooting the server do anything? Is there any chkdsk-like software in Unraid that may solve this issue? Or help? Just trying to think of what I can do remotely to not waste your guys' time.

2 hours ago, Arcaeus said:

Weird. I'll have to do that tonight when I get home from work.

 

As dumb as it sounds, would rebooting the server do anything? Is there any chkdsk-like software in Unraid that may solve this issue? Or help? Just trying to think of what I can do remotely to not waste your guys' time.

You can certainly try rebooting.  The OS/config is loaded into RAM from the flash drive on each boot.  If the problem is in RAM, a reboot may fix it.  If the files on the flash drive are corrupt in some way, a reboot is unlikely to address it.

Edited February 5, 20197 yr by Hoopster

So if my Windows PC does want to run chkdsk, let it do that? or what's the next step?

22 minutes ago, Arcaeus said:

So if my Windows PC does want to run chkdsk, let it do that? or what's the next step?

Definitely let it run chkdsk!     That can often fix the case where booting from the USB stick stops working.

21 minutes ago, Arcaeus said:

So if my Windows PC does want to run chkdsk, let it do that? or what's the next step?

If Windows does detect corruption on the flash drive and wants to fix, then, yes, let it do that.  It may not solve all the problems, but, it may help get further down the troubleshooting path.  Have you already rebooted?

@Hoopster I haven't yet, I'm in the middle of transferring some Movies to the array and wanted to let that finish before restarting it. T minus 45 minutes.

Ok, restarted the server and have the exact same issue. So when I get home, I'll pull the flash drive and see if windows runs chkdsk.

If chkdsk does not run automatically (or suggests that it be run), do it manually. 

Nobody appears to have mentioned the USB port for your flash. Plug it into a USB2 port on your server. The port is usually the culprit when your flash disconnects.