I built the server, i waited for it to build parity and now it's finally done, but i can't fathom for the life of me how to access my new free space on the network.

I searched the Wiki but i guess it' assumes people using Unraid have networking experience

 

Any help would be great.

I built the server, i waited for it to build parity and now it's finally done, but i can't fathom for the life of me how to access my new free space on the network.

I searched the Wiki but i guess it' assumes people using Unraid have networking experience

 

Any help would be great.

If you set the same workgroup name, it should show up in your network neighborhood.

 

Since you did not tell us what you are using to try to access it, we cannot give more explicit instructions.

 

Joe L.

I would like to have it act merely as a folder on my desktop. Double click it and it opens up as any local folder would.

I'm running Vista on this machine and my nettops will be running Windows 7.

 

I'll try playing with workgroup names a little bit.

All your workgroup names must be the same.  Vista and Win7 default to the name 'MSHome'.  The old WinXP standard was 'Workgroup'.  It doesn't matter what word you use, as long as they are all the same.  Your unRAID server must also use the same workgroup name (on the settings page, I think).

 

To have the server's space available on your desktop, you can map a network drive to specific shares on the server, and have a shortcut to that drive on the desktop, or just create a shortcut to the network location on your desktop (browse 'network' and create a shortcut to 'tower').  Either way will work.

 

In Win7, I like to use the 'favorites' list on the left side of windows explorer to keep quick links to all my individual shares (movies, music, etc).

Looks like it's all set up now. My only beef is that it doesn't seem to have the ability to check properties and see how much free space is left like a normal folder. I'm trying to make it act as closely as a folder as possible for family / friends. But it shouldn't be much of an issue.

 

Also according to the management page i have like 288 errors on one of my data disks. But the array is acting completely normal. Reading and writing just fine. Should i be alarmed? Is there such thing as a minor error ... ?

Looks like it's all set up now. My only beef is that it doesn't seem to have the ability to check properties and see how much free space is left like a normal folder. I'm trying to make it act as closely as a folder as possible for family / friends. But it shouldn't be much of an issue.

That's a Windows issue, nothing unRAID can affect.  MacOS is able to view properties on networked folders, I think.  Individual folders on the server should behave normally.

 

Also, if you map a network drive you'll be able to see the capacity of server (used vs free space) as if it were an internally installed data drive.

 

Also according to the management page i have like 288 errors on one of my data disks. But the array is acting completely normal. Reading and writing just fine. Should i be alarmed? Is there such thing as a minor error ... ?

 

There is such a thing as a minor error, but I don't think 288 sync errors qualifies as anywhere close to minor.  Post a syslog.

Thank you very much for that feedback. Before i was just looking at my network groups, now i have it mapped and can quickly see how much free space is on hand versus what is used. It's a small thing but i wanted it.

 

As for my errors they seem to have ... fixed themselves?

After a power down and reboot there are no disk errors. It may just be that i need to do a new parity check for them to show up again.

Yeah, please do.  If you can run two parity checks in a row without errors you should be fine.  Otherwise, you may have problems.