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post #631 of 643
3/19/13 at 7:50am
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Originally Posted by mrlittlejeans View Post

I believe the issue is probably with the Dune itself rather than unraid. The network browser on the Dune is quirky and many times won't show shares or folders if you try to navigate to them via the Dune's network browser. I recently ran up against this at my house. I moved and had to resetup my entire network which entailed a new router and ip addresses for my devices. The Dune would see Tower but not any shares underneath. I manually created a shortcut to my top level shares ("Media" and "Music") and was then able to create shortcuts to the folders underneath them ("TV Shows", "Movies", "Zappiti", etc.).

Good to hear the switch to v5 is going well. I've been too scared to try it but I will need to soon. I've got 14 2TB data drives in mine with a cache and a parity so I've only got 4 free bays on my 20 bay box which doesn't give me a lot of room for expansion. I'll need to start loading in 3TB drives soon...

I've been using RC11 since it came out. Haven't had any issues with it. I just upgraded my parity drive to a 3TB drive last week. I had to uninstall Simple Features though. Everything ran slower with it.

As far as the dune, I never had issues accessing my Tower, but as you said you can manually add the shares as well.
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post #632 of 643
3/21/13 at 7:18pm
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Originally Posted by GusGus748s View Post

Yes, utils >> new persmissions. Run that, then reboot your server. Also make sure Local Master is set to on.

Well GG...I finally had a chance to try this, and I'm sad to say...it didn't seem to work. I both ran the 'new permissions' script, and set the SMB local master to 'yes'. Rebooted; still no dice. Did you actually get it to work with a Dune, or just making general suggestions that have worked otherwise?

I happen to wander upon my old Zappiti shortcut. I knew it wasn't going to work, but I selected it anyway. Interesting enough, the path included 'guest@'; which lead me to believe the Dune needs a guest user...and I seem to remember something like that. But guest, with a blank password didn't work either. But I think it's something along those lines.

Trust me; after a week of pre-clearing a 3T drive, running a parity check, doing a parity-swap, running a parity re-build...then pre-clearing the old 2T drive (not to mention the 5.0 upgrade, and 1.5 unMENU along the way). I'm in no mood to do too much guessing. I'll just map to a share for now, and re-visit this later (unless someone has THE answer). wink.gif
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post #633 of 643
3/21/13 at 7:33pm
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Originally Posted by CDLehner View Post

Well GG...I finally had a chance to try this, and I'm sad to say...it didn't seem to work. I both ran the 'new permissions' script, and set the SMB local master to 'yes'. Rebooted; still no dice. Did you actually get it to work with a Dune, or just making general suggestions that have worked otherwise?

I happen to wander upon my old Zappiti shortcut. I knew it wasn't going to work, but I selected it anyway. Interesting enough, the path included 'guest@'; which lead me to believe the Dune needs a guest user...and I seem to remember something like that. But guest, with a blank password didn't work either. But I think it's something along those lines.

Trust me; after a week of pre-clearing a 3T drive, running a parity check, doing a parity-swap, running a parity re-build...then pre-clearing the old 2T drive (not to mention the 5.0 upgrade, and 1.5 unMENU along the way). I'm in no mood to do too much guessing. I'll just map to a share for now, and re-visit this later (unless someone has THE answer). wink.gif

The only thing I can think id that you can try next is adding the your server to the Dune manually by using its IP address.

I'm at work right now, but when I get home I'll do it myself and post the steps for you. Unless, someone else can do this before me.

I'm determined to make this work. If mine works, you should be able to make it work.

DBone1026 knows how to do the adding shares via IP. So if he reads this I hope he can post the how to.
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post #634 of 643
3/23/13 at 12:43am
I came home, and I tried adding the IP address of my server manually, and for the life of me I can't remember how to do it eek.gif Can anyone else assist on this?
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post #635 of 643
3/23/13 at 7:37am
I'm noticing something else, very unusual...since my 5.0 upgrade.

Like most I'm sure, I have a lot of devices I stream to. Let's see...The Dune D1, WDTV Live, SBT, PS Audio Network Bridge, DIY music server, etc. Most appear to be fine; there's the already discussed issue with the D1. No biggie there; GG will either find a solution, or a mapped share hasn't caused any inconvenience so far (though to be fair, I haven't used it all that much since the upgrade).

But last night, I noticed something very unusual. I went to open up Foobar (latest v1.2.3) on my desktop (I don't use it much anymore, because I have a dedicated audio system in my Office now), and all my music was gone! I went into library>configure, and decided to re-link my Music share. Then I ran a re-scan, and was relieved when I started seeing titles come back. Trouble is...when I looked more closely, only like HALF of my albums showed up; and when I went into most titles, only like every other track was available (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc).

Then...I go back in this morning; to see if maybe things kind of "normalized" over night. Back to no music at all. Just odd; and I can't seem to put my finger on it. When unRAID 5.0 seems to work fine with this device, but not that one...is it an unRAID issue or a device issue. All I know is, everything was dialed-in and working fine before. Some times...if it ain't broke, don't fix it; right?
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post #636 of 643
3/23/13 at 8:45am
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Originally Posted by CDLehner View Post

I'm noticing something else, very unusual...since my 5.0 upgrade.

Like most I'm sure, I have a lot of devices I stream to. Let's see...The Dune D1, WDTV Live, SBT, PS Audio Network Bridge, DIY music server, etc. Most appear to be fine; there's the already discussed issue with the D1. No biggie there; GG will either find a solution, or a mapped share hasn't caused any inconvenience so far (though to be fair, I haven't used it all that much since the upgrade).

But last night, I noticed something very unusual. I went to open up Foobar (latest v1.2.3) on my desktop (I don't use it much anymore, because I have a dedicated audio system in my Office now), and all my music was gone! I went into library>configure, and decided to re-link my Music share. Then I ran a re-scan, and was relieved when I started seeing titles come back. Trouble is...when I looked more closely, only like HALF of my albums showed up; and when I went into most titles, only like every other track was available (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc).

Then...I go back in this morning; to see if maybe things kind of "normalized" over night. Back to no music at all. Just odd; and I can't seem to put my finger on it. When unRAID 5.0 seems to work fine with this device, but not that one...is it an unRAID issue or a device issue. All I know is, everything was dialed-in and working fine before. Some times...if it ain't broke, don't fix it; right?

I installed RC12 last night and didn't have any issues. I've upgraded unraid every time there's an update without any problems. I would suggest to post on the Lime Tech forum with a system log.
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post #637 of 643
3/23/13 at 10:43am
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Originally Posted by GusGus748s View Post

I installed RC12 last night and didn't have any issues. I've upgraded unraid every time there's an update without any problems. I would suggest to post on the Lime Tech forum with a system log.

Don't get me wrong GG; I'm not blaming unRAID. In fact, almost the opposite. The fact that some (most) stuff works just fine, makes me think it's that devices' issue; but of course, it's a chicken and egg kinda situation, right? It was fine before, so what happened?

Oh snap; just as I was about to put the finishes touches on this post...I checked Foobar again. Looks all complete now. Guess it just took a really, really long time to re-scan (my share is around 700G).

Never mind redface.gif Oh...but we do still want to get to the bottom of that Dune issue, right?
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post #638 of 643
3/23/13 at 11:12am
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Originally Posted by CDLehner View Post

Don't get me wrong GG; I'm not blaming unRAID. In fact, almost the opposite. The fact that some (most) stuff works just fine, makes me think it's that devices' issue; but of course, it's a chicken and egg kinda situation, right? It was fine before, so what happened?

Oh snap; just as I was about to put the finishes touches on this post...I checked Foobar again. Looks all complete now. Guess it just took a really, really long time to re-scan (my share is around 700G).

Never mind redface.gif Oh...but we do still want to get to the bottom of that Dune issue, right?

Yeah, I don't understand why you have issues with shares + Dune. I had similar issues like you, but that was when I was using Win 7 PC + Dune. What are you SMB setting for UnRaid?
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post #639 of 643
3/23/13 at 3:43pm
Link aggregation is only useful if you have to do data transfers > 1 Gb between two devices/end points. Your ethernet switch would have to support it as well. If you are streaming blueray to multiple devices and experiencing delays or macro-blocking that you suspect is due to network delay I would run the linux netstat cmd on the unRaid server to see if there is packet re-transmission.

You should be able to run Linux ifconfig and enable the second NIC with it's own unique IP address. Create physical "sub-nets" in your house by using 2 separate 4 port ethernet switches, and distribute your "player" devices to one of the two separate 10base-T wire networks, each with connection to one and only one NIC on the unRaid server..

There are some low-end "managed routers" in the 200-250 $ range that will let you set up VLANs. This will allow you to set up "logical sub-nets". You will be limited to 1 Gb traffic limits on a physical link, but you can define a QoS (quality of service) for each VLAN. I have a separate VLAN that connects my unRaid server to the main "theater" projector, which is assigned half of the 1Gb bandwidth. Then if there is competing traffic, I don't see any impact.
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post #640 of 643
5/4/13 at 12:04pm
So, this is how my server looks like now:

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post #641 of 643
5/4/13 at 8:26pm
Looking good there Gus!
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post #642 of 643
5/5/13 at 10:17am
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Originally Posted by dan4081 View Post

Looking good there Gus!

Thanks. I am starting to buy 3TB drives now. I am hoping for the 4TB prices to come down a little bit more so I can buy a two of them.
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post #643 of 643
5/14/13 at 7:58am
Has anyone used an HP ProLiant G7 N54L Ultra Micro Tower Server for unRAID? Yesterday Newegg had a special with this and a Sans Digital TR4M four bay enclosure for around $280 after rebates($380 before) So I figured I would pick it up and set up a third unRAID which will replace my WHS. I can use some of the external enclosures from my WHS with this. It has one port multiplier eSata port plus space for five internal hard drives. I just need to get a port multiplier eSata card so I can connect four more 4 bay enclosures. If I use most of the 2TB drives from my WHS I can set up a 48TB unRAID since I see that unRAID 5.0 can handle 24 drives. Or is one of those drives the parity drive? So with a cache drive can I have 25 drives with unRAID v5.0 rc12?
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