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Got my plex to work with my vpn. I indeed needed to add a network to the advanced settings of plex that does not require authentication. My vpn was giving me a different subnet than my actual internal network. So internal network is AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD VPN was giving AAA.BBB.EEE.FFF Added AAA.BBB.EEE.FFF to plex and it works great!

I have plex running right now and while I am at home I can go to my unRaid IP address:32400/web and browse the Plex server with either my Windows Laptop or my android phone. Now on my network my router has openVPN setup. I know everything is working, because when I am not on my home network I can use the OpenVPN client(on either my laptop or phone) to get on my home network and access the unRaid webGUI. However, when I try to do the same as before for connecting to Plex (unRaid IP address:32400/web) the Plex server comes up but asks me to login? I am confused why this is happening. Since I am on a vpn and have an IP that is on my home network, shouldn't this work exactly the way if I was sitting in my house?

I will have to apologize, since I am not quite sure I understand your last response. I am trying to have it so Share only allows certain users to access it. I have setup a couple users. When I set the share to be Hidden and Private, a login prompt comes up when I try to access that share. However, after entering my user credentials, the login prompt just keeps coming up. I have checked to make sure that the user(s) I have created are allowed access (read/write) on the share in question. Is there a reason why the login prompt would keep coming up?

Ok that makes sense. For question two, looking at the Unraid v6 manual, it doesn't seem to mention the "Private" setting. Is there another way I am supposed setup my share so that a user has to "login" before given access to a folder?

Yes I understand, wireless will be slower than wired. But onto my next and hopefully final questions. 1) I have all of my data now on my array. However, I did this without the parity disk. Now I stopped the array, and added the parity disk, it has immediately started a parity check. The only problem is, this disk has never been "formatted" after the preclear. So in the main dashboard it shows no file system or used vs free statistics. Should i allow this check to continue? 2) I am trying to setup users to allow access to certain folders. When I attemp smb security settings of Hidden and Private (along with picking a user to have read/write access) when I attempt to go to that folder location I just keep getting the login popup. I have checked the creditials and made new users but still not letting me log into the folder.

Ya, it looks like it was a problem with Hasawell processors. I needed to add intel_pstate=disabled in my syslinux config file. Now the cpu seems to behaving correctly. But now my next question. Finally done with setting up my server and transferring my first files over. I am copying over wireless, but only getting like 17mb/s. I will have to do some more testing on a wired connection, but when people are posting writes in the 50-100 range, I start to get suspicious of what I did wrong

Got home to finished pre-clear with all cores still maxed out. Tried using the pstate disable, and it worked! Cores are now idling expect one around 800Mhz. Now to get everything else running to see if performance is still ackward or that this has actually fixed it. Thanks again.

I will have to read that thread, but yes my CPU is constantly shown with all four cores at max frequency. So if there is a bug in actual reporting, or a true problem with my cpu hopefully that thread will shine some light on this.

Highjacking the thread a bit. I just put together my new system with a I3-4170. While doing the write zeros phase of the preclear on my two 4TB drives the cpu usage for my system bounced between 50-80%. Now in the post read it goes from 30-60%. This is the first time I am using an intel board and before I installed my cpu, it kind of looked like some pins might have been bent, but was so small I couldn't really tell. Since everything has booted up and I am not getting errors I have though nothing of it. But now with such high CPU usage on Pre-Clear I am curious if there is a way to test my cpu, sort of like memtest?

I would have to agree with the statement that I don't mind my data being "unprotected" on my intial load. So if/when my pre-clear is done and passed, I will just mount the data disk and then start transferring files. However, I am still looking for a question on CPU usage. I have an Intel I3-4170. During the writing zeros phase of preclear my cpu usage was between 50-80%. Now at post read its at about 50%. The reason I bring it up is because whenever I log onto my unraid server through the webgui it intially is very slow to load pages or does not load images until going to another menu screen and coming back, though eventually it becomes more responsive. Is this a fact of the pre-clear or should I be wondering about my cpu?

Yes I am using the webgui. I just assumed there would be a results of the pre-read portion of the preclear. It is now on writing zeros, and I can click the eye to see that status, but nothing about the pre-read. Guess we will wait to see what happens when it finishes up. I'm also curious about the High CPU usage.

I've got my very first running through preclear right now. I have two 4TB drives at the same time. Now to the questions. 1) The pre-read finished, but I was not logged in when it happened. Is there a way to see the results? 2) I thought I bought a pretty beefy CPU for Unraid (I3-4170) but during the zero writing the usage is consistantly between 60-80%. Is that high cpu usage normal? Is there a way to see if you cpu is functioning correctly in unraid (all cores used ect ect)? Thanks.

So I want to say thank you all so far, you have really helped. My array passed memtest and is now pre-clearing my two 4TB drives. While this is going on I thought of another question. Since this is a brand new array and I want to start transferring my data from all my random locations, the ammount to be transferred will be larger than my 250GB cache drive. Is there a way to bypass the cache drive when initially writing files? Doing a search as suggested only turns up writing directly to the disk share and not the user share. Is it possible to simply unmount my cache disk until my intial data copied? Or is there some better solution I don't know about? Thanks again!

Ok everything should be coming in today to build it tonight. I have looked at the dynamix Plugins and I don't really see one for preclear. Is preclear built into v6.1 or is there some other plugin I should use? Since I am not able to find said plugin, anybody with a link to it?

Second noob question incoming. I see some people's signatures with Plex and Plexwebwatch. What's the difference between Plex and Plexwebwatch?