Unassigned Devices - Managing Disk Drives and Remote Shares Outside of The Unraid Array

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If you are seeing unexplained disk or remote share activity, it may be due to cache dirs caching all folders.  For those of you using the Cache Dirs plugin, you need to specify folders to be included so UD mounted disks and shares do not get included automatically.  This can also apply to pool disks.  It's really the best practice to specify the included folders so you control what is actually being cached.
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Major new release of UD: "Where are the switches?"  The "Pass Through", "Read Only", "Automount", and "Share" switches have been moved to a new Edit Settings dialog.  This is also where the script is modified.  This saves some real estate on the UD page and keeps the page refresh smooth. A "Show Partitions" switch has been added to set showing all partitions by specific hard drive device and not generically as before.  The option to show all partitions has been removed from the UD

New layout and features

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New release of UD.  The changes are: - Add ability to spin down a disk by sdX.  You don't have to spin down disks by name= any more.  This is still available for spinning down a disk from a User Script because you won't know the correct sdX as it changes on reboot. - Add the ability to detach a disk when a UD script is finished using 'rc.unassigned'.  This detaches the disk from Unraid and should provide a potentially safer way to remove a USB device.  Applies to USB disks only. -
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There is a new feature in UD to help with plugins that need a mount point folder.  UD now creates a mount folder '/mnt/addons'.  This folder should be used to mount your plugin devices to prevent FCP warnings and keep your mounts separated from UD.  It is recommended you switch to this new folder for your addon and custom mounts.  You are welcome to leave the mounts at '/mnt/disks' or '/mnt/remotes'.  Things will still work, but if you request support for UD issues, you will be asked to remove t

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11 minutes ago, dlandon said:

Yes, please do.  It gets chatty if left on and fills the log.

Hi, i upgraded UD (noticed this AM) and then read through your above texts.  I did the following to resolve the issue:

went into settings of UD, change security from public to no for both SMB (apply), then NFS (apply)
went to main menu option then went to both drive and mount and selected the gear and "disabled" share and pressed done went back into the gear for the drive and share was back enabled I clicked done again.  I did the same for the mount.   

i then tested the through windows 10 and the mount is shared.  I did the same thing yesterday, the only difference would be the upgraded UD.   

Thank you for your help.

 

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2 hours ago, dbrown2 said:

Hi, i upgraded UD (noticed this AM) and then read through your above texts.  I did the following to resolve the issue:

went into settings of UD, change security from public to no for both SMB (apply), then NFS (apply)
went to main menu option then went to both drive and mount and selected the gear and "disabled" share and pressed done went back into the gear for the drive and share was back enabled I clicked done again.  I did the same for the mount.   

i then tested the through windows 10 and the mount is shared.  I did the same thing yesterday, the only difference would be the upgraded UD.   

Thank you for your help.

 

Once UD is setup to share devices, it shouldn't be necessary to do your steps.  Unfortunately, there might be a case where the settings may need a refresh.

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Hi.  I recently installed the UD plugin to try to mount an external hard and SMB shared folder. However, ever since I installed the application, it won't stop "loading" under the drives section. I've added a shared folder as well and got  "success!" pop-up, but that is not listed either.  Please help me fix this.

 

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14 minutes ago, The Don said:

Hi.  I recently installed the UD plugin to try to mount an external hard and SMB shared folder. However, ever since I installed the application, it won't stop "loading" under the drives section. I've added a shared folder as well and got  "success!" pop-up, but that is not listed either.  Please help me fix this.

 

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44 minutes ago, DavidN said:

Changed "Enable SMB security" to "Public", and all is as it was.

Actually a change was made a long time ago to default SMB Security off.  It used to be that SMB Security off would be Public access, but because of security concerns, SMB Security defaults to off (disabled) and has to be set to the security level you want.  Public is a security level,  Off is disabled and not a security level.

 

Snippet of the Change Log: 

2022.06.19
- Add: 'Public' setting to SMB Security settings to share devices public.  The 'No' setting used to set 'Public' sharing.

 

Either you didn't notice till now, or you haven't updated for 7+ months.

 

1 hour ago, DavidN said:

Is there to be an update that fixes it?

No.  Update often and read the Change Notes.  Set the security level to the one you want, or off for disabled.

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6 minutes ago, The Don said:

Stupid thing to say, but I have no idea what Dev 1 is under unassigned devices. Dev 2 is the drive I'm trying to mount.

It's a physical disk formatted with a bfrts file system connected by sata cable.

 

Go to the Settings->Unassigned Devices and set SMB Security off for the moment.  You don't have any users defined for Private security: 

Feb 20 12:31:02 MilkyWay unassigned.devices: Error: No valid smb users defined. Share '/mnt/disks/172551804235' cannot be accessed.

That shouldn't hang UD, but I'll do some testing.

 

Do this:

  • Turn off SMB Security for now.
  • Remove the My_Passport USB disk.
  • Shutdown your server.
  • Find the 250GB 'sdh' disk and remove it.
  • Restart the server.
  • Re-install UD.
  • Plug in your My_passport disk.
  • Report back.
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27 minutes ago, dlandon said:

It's a physical disk formatted with a bfrts file system connected by sata cable.

 

Go to the Settings->Unassigned Devices and set SMB Security off for the moment.  You don't have any users defined for Private security: 

Feb 20 12:31:02 MilkyWay unassigned.devices: Error: No valid smb users defined. Share '/mnt/disks/172551804235' cannot be accessed.

That shouldn't hang UD, but I'll do some testing.

 

Do this:

  • Turn off SMB Security for now.
  • Remove the My_Passport USB disk.
  • Shutdown your server.
  • Find the 250GB 'sdh' disk and remove it.
  • Restart the server.
  • Re-install UD.
  • Plug in your My_passport disk.
  • Report back.

 

Thank you for you help.  I found the culprit 250GB drive and removed it. I followed all of your steps.  Unfortunately, even when I had no unassigned devices plugged in the machine, when I installed the UD plugin, it is still continuously loading.  I tried plugging in the passport anyways as in the directions, but for whatever reason, the plugin is still hanging.

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18 minutes ago, The Don said:

 

Thank you for you help.  I found the culprit 250GB drive and removed it. I followed all of your steps.  Unfortunately, even when I had no unassigned devices plugged in the machine, when I installed the UD plugin, it is still continuously loading.  I tried plugging in the passport anyways as in the directions, but for whatever reason, the plugin is still hanging.

Post one more diagnostics for me without the USB drive plugged in.

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2 minutes ago, The Don said:

 

Here you are.  Thank you for your help.

You left the MyPassport connected.  I didn't want it connected.

 

UD shouldn't be hanging up when there are no disks to display.

 

Try this:

  • Remove UD.
  • Remove the USB MyPassport disk.
  • Delete the /flash/config/plugins/unassigned.devices/ folder.
  • Install UD and see if it constantly shows the Unraid wave.
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7 minutes ago, dlandon said:

You left the MyPassport connected.  I didn't want it connected.

 

UD shouldn't be hanging up when there are no disks to display.

 

Try this:

  • Remove UD.
  • Remove the USB MyPassport disk.
  • Delete the /flash/config/plugins/unassigned.devices/ folder.
  • Install UD and see if it constantly shows the Unraid wave.

Funny thing is, it was completely removed.  However, you are absolutely right... for some reason it is still listed under unassigned devices (with the plug-in) uninstalled.  I'll follow your steps and reboot the server for good measure and report back.

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2 minutes ago, The Don said:

Funny thing is, it was completely removed.  However, you are absolutely right... for some reason it is still listed under unassigned devices (with the plug-in) uninstalled.  I'll follow your steps and reboot the server for good measure and report back.

I believe I saw in your diagnostics, you are using Marvel disk controllers.  They have been troublesome in the past.  I'd like @JorgeBto weight in on this issue because I see some strange disk designations.

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19 minutes ago, dlandon said:

You left the MyPassport connected.  I didn't want it connected.

 

UD shouldn't be hanging up when there are no disks to display.

 

Try this:

  • Remove UD.
  • Remove the USB MyPassport disk.
  • Delete the /flash/config/plugins/unassigned.devices/ folder.
  • Install UD and see if it constantly shows the Unraid wave.

 

SUCCESS!!!

 

I had to physically remove the flash drive and put it in my computer to delete the app data as you directed.  It's working perfectly now.  Thank you!

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