April 8, 20206 yr Hi, I have three machines in my studio... Machine 1 - Unraid server - Dual port Mellanox 10GBe SFP card Machine 2 - Windows 10 Video Edit workstation - Dual port Mellanox 10GBe SFP card Machine 3 - Windows 10 Video Edit Workstation - Dual port Mellanox 10GBe SFP card Machines 1 and 2 are successfully linked, peer to peer via fiber. I have a projects drive mapped and performance is excellent. Can I now create a peer to peer connection on the remaining free ports to Machine 1 & 3 and subsequently Machines 2 & 3? I have repeated my steps to map the projects share on the unraid to the new workstation (machine 3) but windows just times out searching for the drive. IP addresses are as follows (2nd number is 2nd port).... Machine 1 - 10.10.20.2 / 10.10.20.3 Machine 2 - 10.10.20.4 / 10.10.20.5 Machine 2 - 10.10.20.6 / 10.10.20.7 As far as I can tell all settings are correct. Can I not set up a 2nd peer to peer connection if I have dual port cards? Any help would be massively appreciated. I am far from a networking expert but what I want to do seems quite logically possible in my head!
April 8, 20206 yr Community Expert 25 minutes ago, misquoted said: Can I not set up a 2nd peer to peer connection if I have dual port cards? You can 25 minutes ago, misquoted said: Machine 1 - 10.10.20.2 / 10.10.20.3 Can't use same network/segment for both, e,g machine 1 - 10.10.20.1 / 10.10.30.1 machine2 connects to machine 1 with 10.10.20.2 machine3 connects to machine 1 with 10.10.30.3
April 8, 20206 yr Author Okay, so let me see if I have this correct from your advice... Secondary port in Machine 1 (unraid) should be 10.10.30.1/24 Secondary port in Machine 3 (new win10 workstation) should be 10.10.30.3/24 I should then be able to map the destination in win10 //10.10.30.1/projects ?
April 8, 20206 yr Community Expert 4 minutes ago, misquoted said: Secondary port in Machine 3 (new win10 workstation) should be 10.10.30.3/24 Secondary or primary port, whichever connects to machine 1, but yes.
April 8, 20206 yr Author I appreciate your help with this. Thank you. Right, seems I had my ports mixed a little. But I have had some success albeit creating another issue. I have decided to disconnect all cables and work on a single connection at a time. Machine 1 (Unraid) Port 1 (10.10.20.2) CONNECTED TO Machine 3 (win10) Port 1 (10.10.20.6) - all is working and projects drive is successfully mapped I'd like to now get the same working for the second windows workstation Machine 1 (Unraid) Port 2 (10.10.30.2) CONNECTED TO Machine 2 (win10) Port 1 (10.10.30.6) - This fails to connect via a drive mapping Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
April 8, 20206 yr Community Expert Should work like that, can machine2 access the shares if you connect it to the other port, using machine 3 settings?
April 8, 20206 yr Author Yes. This is how it was working before. But I have only ever managed to establish a single connection. Never two separate at the same time.
April 8, 20206 yr Community Expert Sorry, no idea then, I use multiple connections, but form a single Windows desktop to multiple Unraid servers, and some servers connect to my desktop with one port and to another Unraid server with the other.
April 8, 20206 yr Author Well not sure what happened but in last ditch attempt I disabled and then re enabled the network adaptor and it has mapped! Now good with drives mapped on both windows machines. So finally to map the two windows machines to each other. Do I need to jump to a new IP segment?
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