Unraid being weird

[paddy-stone]

Unraid is behaving strangely. I don't have a ton of experience with it, but bear with me I'll try to explain.

 

Ok, so using a trial right now on my test server:-

 

R7 1700, stock settings, OC was reset to stock for testing.

16GB 3000Mhz, but operating at JEDEC stock freq

USB drive for unraid 16GB

2TB WD green that was shucked from case years ago.

60GB Samsung 830 just for VMs right now.

 

Ok, so this is what I did.

 

Set up unraid.

disks assigned with no cache/parity drive... this is just for testing with spare hardware I have RN.

Users /admin/me/bro/other

permissions /all/all/media/media

 

using docker for ovpn AS/plexmediaserver

 

everything working fine, testing OK, can access home network from outside, port forwarding to server and plex media server tested fine.

 

then yesterday, it stopped working, wouldn't let me log in to the server or anything... googled it, and deleted passwd and 2 other files from USB stick, to reset passwords... re-inserted stick, back up and running, re-added users/pass.

Today, got some more stuff on plex sorted out, was copying over files from main server, and it stopped copying over... went to UI to see what's happened and again no access. So for today have given up RN as I have other stuff to deal with. Just wondering if anyone had ideas about the cause? I can try another mem stick HDD/SSD etc no problems, just would be great if someone could possibly save me some time googling again. Thanks

[Jarsky]

Unsure why this is happening, as UnRAID loads into memory. It doesnt read/write from the USB stick once booted. 

To reset it, it seems you've figured out the answer of deleting/renaming the passwd/shadows/smbpasswd files, but not sure what the cause is. 

 

[paddy-stone]

17 hours ago, Jarsky said:

Unsure why this is happening, as UnRAID loads into memory. It doesnt read/write from the USB stick once booted. 

To reset it, it seems you've figured out the answer of deleting/renaming the passwd/shadows/smbpasswd files, but not sure what the cause is. 

 

Ah OK, thanks anyway.. will have to maybe start from scratch again, and maybe try a new HDD if it does it again as that is old AF and could be on it's last legs. It started today without problem, didn't need to del the passwd etc files this time. So will have to keep testing.

[Salacious B Crum]

Are you using a usb2 stick in a usb2 port that can reflect issues randomly the drive may be getting corrupted during its up time

[paddy-stone]

17 hours ago, mrbilky said:

Are you using a usb2 stick in a usb2 port that can reflect issues randomly the drive may be getting corrupted during its up time

Nope, am using a USB 3.0 stick (before they changed the naming convention), in a USB 3.0 port.

[Salacious B Crum]

2 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

Nope, am using a USB 3.0 stick (before they changed the naming convention), in a USB 3.0 port.

All reports over on their forum seem to indicate this is a problem inherent with using usb 3 I would have a go at changing that and see if the problem persists but I must say I have a usb 3 stick in a usb 2 port no problems so maybe create a fresh install and plug it into a usb 2

[paddy-stone]

2 hours ago, mrbilky said:

All reports over on their forum seem to indicate this is a problem inherent with using usb 3 I would have a go at changing that and see if the problem persists but I must say I have a usb 3 stick in a usb 2 port no problems so maybe create a fresh install and plug it into a usb 2

Yeah, I'll try that thanks for the info.

 

I might wait a bit until I'm finished testing some other stuff first... fingers crossed, but has been OK the last few days, but haven't been taxing the NAS side of things, just playing with other apps and creating some more .ovpn profiles etc to give people access ATM (which is bloody easy I must say). The only "problem" I'm having ATM is giving people with icrap devices access... some of which could be my not knowing apple stuff, but it seems completely shit to me, that even having the openVPN app, you still can't just point it at the .ovpn file like you can on Android. So, will have to look into that. It has to be easy enough to enable me to translate to my sister who is a technocretin, how to do stuff - ATM I'm guessing it's not gonna be possible

[Salacious B Crum]

1 hour ago, paddy-stone said:

Yeah, I'll try that thanks for the info.

 

I might wait a bit until I'm finished testing some other stuff first... fingers crossed, but has been OK the last few days, but haven't been taxing the NAS side of things, just playing with other apps and creating some more .ovpn profiles etc to give people access ATM (which is bloody easy I must say). The only "problem" I'm having ATM is giving people with icrap devices access... some of which could be my not knowing apple stuff, but it seems completely shit to me, that even having the openVPN app, you still can't just point it at the .ovpn file like you can on Android. So, will have to look into that. It has to be easy enough to enable me to translate to my sister who is a technocretin, how to do stuff - ATM I'm guessing it's not gonna be possible

If your talking about her accessing a share with an apple device that would be AFP settings in the share settings if you mean access through openvpn I'm not using that I use wiregaurd on my unRAID machine it was super easy to setup on my iphone

[paddy-stone]

21 hours ago, mrbilky said:

If your talking about her accessing a share with an apple device that would be AFP settings in the share settings if you mean access through openvpn I'm not using that I use wiregaurd on my unRAID machine it was super easy to setup on my iphone

Yeah, there's no problem her accessing a share, I have all that set up on my main server. It's the openvpn part that is completely lame on the apple devices.

I'll have a bit of a google to see if there's better IOS apps that can handle an ovpn profile. If it's too much of a pain in the arse, she'll just have to either get an android device or wait until the lockdown is over to get some files from my server.

 

The thing I hate is, I've done all the "hard" work on the server side... which was actually very easy on unraid and openvpn AS. It's the IOS side that's giving me arse ache. Took like 30 seconds, if that, to do it on Android.

 

[edit] Nevermind - I've figured it out now. Was as simple as going to the .ovpn file and clicking on "share" then selecting openvpn app, then saving it. So a bit more complicated than Android, but still not that bad I guess

[Salacious B Crum]

1 hour ago, paddy-stone said:

Yeah, there's no problem her accessing a share, I have all that set up on my main server. It's the openvpn part that is completely lame on the apple devices.

I'll have a bit of a google to see if there's better IOS apps that can handle an ovpn profile. If it's too much of a pain in the arse, she'll just have to either get an android device or wait until the lockdown is over to get some files from my server.

 

The thing I hate is, I've done all the "hard" work on the server side... which was actually very easy on unraid and openvpn AS. It's the IOS side that's giving me arse ache. Took like 30 seconds, if that, to do it on Android.

 

[edit] Nevermind - I've figured it out now. Was as simple as going to the .ovpn file and clicking on "share" then selecting openvpn app, then saving it. So a bit more complicated than Android, but still not that bad I guess

Glad it worked out Apple can be a bitch at times

[paddy-stone]

22 hours ago, mrbilky said:

Glad it worked out Apple can be a bitch at times

Yeah, it seemed ass backwards way of doing it to me. Having to "share" the file with the program, then accept a couple of prompts etc. But glad I got it working anyway.

 

I'm pretty impressed with the openVPN AS docker, it was relatively simple to use to get things working on there... I love a nice webGUI for doing stuff