Ok, some background first.

I am having issues seeing my shares in "My Network Places". My laptop, my girlfriends laptop, and UnRaid are all in the same workgroup, My_home. On my girlfriend's laptop I can see my user share "Movies",  "disk1" and "disk2" shares which I didn't create and the flash drive share under the "The Internet" section. When I click view workgroup computers it shows her laptop, my laptop and the tower, sometimes have to refresh to see them all. On my computer I have not been able to see any shares unless I type \\tower and no computers show up in the workgroup except my own.

 

Yesterday, I think, the flash drive share showed up in the "The Internet" section, but still nothing in the workgroup. On the same day I also created a User share called "Movies" and copied a movie 8GB movie into it.(I had to type in \\tower to get to the shares) Then I copied the same movie on to the disk 2 share to see how the speeds compared.

 

I have been trying to figure out what is going on and I saw in a post that one person needed the Local Master set to 'yes'. I did that and still nothing showed up in "My Network Places" except the flash share. So I typed in \\tower and noticed that the movie I copied to UnRaid (a video_ts folder format) is showing up as a user share. It also shows up in the Web GUI, but I never told UnRaid to do this.

 

Just now everything is showing up in "The Internet" and workgroup computers. However, I can not play the Movie off Unraid on my computer, but I can on my girlfriends computer. We are both using WinDVD just different versions. Previously the movie was playing off my laptop harddrive.

 

I found this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4352.0 and tried the commands Joe suggested

smbstatus

testparm

 

But I don't know how to copy the output to post. Use a telnet session? Why did UnRaid create a user share out of my movie folder without me telling it to? I have attached my system log. It includes creating the movie share and the time up til now.

Syslog-Random_User_Share_Created-12-13-2010.txt

Every top level directory on a disk is automatically a "user-share".  You can then disable access to that user-share if you desire.  It is up to you to create a few top level user-shares and organize your data on them.  It is up to you to disable the "disk" shares" if you do not want them visible on the LAN.

 

You'll want to create a top level "Movies" or "Media" share and put the movie directories under it.

To see the shares in network-places you'll need to set the workgroup the same on all the devices and you'll need to have a "master-browser" defined on your LAN.  That will then use NETBIOS to resolve the names and track shared drives and resources.  Setting unRAID to be a "master-browser" helps prevent the situation where the master-browser is designated as the laptop which is subsequently turned off.

 

Joe L.

 

 

Every top level directory on a disk is automatically a "user-share".  You can then disable access to that user-share if you desire.  It is up to you to create a few top level user-shares and organize your data on them.

 

Joe thank you for clarifying this for me. I was thinking that the disk shares were the top level directories. So, when I put the movie folder on disk2, which was not in the movies share, UnRaid automatically set it as a user-share. I'm guessing that my girlfriends laptop was the Local Master browser since everything would only work on that computer before setting UnRaid as the Local Master. Thanks again.