Spencer

Thank you for asking, Andrew. I really wish Lime Technology all the best. I think they have a fascinating product, but one that I just was not able to make work with the hardware I had. They did respond by asking that I start a thread on the forum. I had actually offered to pay for a service call to get this straightened out. In the end, I just had to move on. Spencer

Andrew, I installed unRaid from scratch. No change. I switched cables no change. I deleted all references in Keychain relating to unRAID and its IP address. No change. I created a new user. No change. I have just burned out on unRAID. Because I already had a license for NASLite (in use), I could buy another license of NASLite-M2 x64 for $22.72. Within 2 hours, I had the software installed on a USB thumbdrive, formatted all my disks, and setup rsynch backups. I created multiple streams of simple Finder copies to the NASLite. Photos. 3d projects. Substantial iTunes library. Went to bed, Next morning all my data had been copied to the NASLite and backed up to mirror drives. The shares were still patiently waiting on my desktop, ready to go. The server has been rock solid for days. I pointed iTunes at the Media folder and it picked up all my files. I don’t care that NASLite is updated very rarely ( years between releases ). Its feature set is fine for my home office needs. I am still intrigued by unRAID's virtualization and docker support. I may build a machine that can take advantage of that one day and try it again. But in the meantime, I have work to do and unRAID has been a time sink for me. BTW Automounter seems to have trouble with NASLite share. I will be glad to help you trouble shoot that if you want unless you have already solved that. I am just putting the disk shares into my account Login items and that seems to work perfectly. Thanks for your help. Spence

I suspected cruft on the server so I performed a clean install including formatting all drives including the flash drive. unRAID came up uneventfully. I created one smb share. My home network is very simple. ATT uVerse router. My iMac and my PC are both set to static ip addresses. They both connect to a Buffalo unmanaged gigabit switch which is connected straight to the router. The iMac simply refuses to maintain a reliable connection to the unRAID server. I guess I am going to start swapping cables. Any help would be appreciated.

Could someone tell me how I could go about determining how to maintain a connection from my Mac running macOS Sierra to my unRAID server? I have tried so many different things including Automounter. Why is this even a problem?

Here is my use case. I have 5 Macs connected by gigabit Ethernet to an unRAID server with sufficient capacity. If, each night, I were to image a .dmg (disk image file) of a Mac hd ( 1 terabyte of data) to an unRaid server that had a 256 gigabyte SSD as cache, how would unRAID handle that? Would the cache be ignored and the write go straight to the storage array, incurring the parity write speed penalty?

Any help? Or should I submit it directly?

The motherboard has 4 sata ports. They control the parity disk and the 3 data disks. I am using an IOCrest PCI Express card - Model SI-PEX40064 - on the strength of an Amazon reviewer stating that it was plug and play with his unRAID server.

Requested screen capture from the unRAID gui.

I get the following error message after a reboot: stat: cannot stat '/usr/local/emhttp/mnt/cache*' sylog.zip attached syslog.zip

With Beta15-x86_64 I see the following on my console: Tower login: stat: cannot stat '/usr/local/emhttp/mnt/cache/*' : No such file or directory I recently added a cache drive to my system if that helps. Not sure it is working properly. There are still large files on the cache drive even though I have run mover. I have enabled cache on all shares. Thanks for any help. Spencer

Thank you. I had one disk2 included and disk3 excluded. This also clears up my prior question. Thanks for helping a novice.

Attached are snapshots of my array. The second picture show that only one of my data disks are available to include or exclude. Any help

I have about 400 gigs of files on Disk 1. I copied them across the network to an exported smb disk share. I have now decided that I do not wish for my disks to be visible on the network. I only want Shares with Users. Let's say that there is a directory called /foo on disk1 I want to create a share called foo and create a user called foouser and enable foouser to see the directory /foo. How do I go about this? I have diligently searched but can't find an answer. Your help will be greatly appreciated.