I got Unraid 6.12.3 setup and an array put together. I have created an SMB share, but for the life of me I can’t connect to the the server from Windows. Windows either shows the share in network browsing but when I enter credentials Windows tells me the share doesn’t exist OR it just flat out says that neither root nor the user I made is abel to connect with “Access is denied”. I can’t find a guide or a video that covers creating a share that I can access, I think they all assume it’s already done and you don’t need to know 
ETA: Of course as soon as I post this, it just randomly starts working
Tho I do have another question. My current “NAS” is a WD My Cloud device. I’m trying to find a way to start copying everything from the WD to the Unraid without using my PC to passthru the transfer since I know that slows it down. Any ideas?
Probably using rsync or scp if the WD device supports that. You would hop into the console on the unraid box and ssh/rsync or scp data from the WD device to a folder locally on your Unraid box.
If the WD device doesn’t support rsync/scp I’m not sure, probably just copy it through windows. Just do it in small chunks and it will eventually be moved over, unless you have like 100Tb then that would take forever.
I ended up using an FTP client. connected to unraid, used the windows map drive to the files and just uploaded from the WD to unraid. took a few hours but it got there.
Can someone explain this to me for Unraid VM setup? That progression in core numbers doesn’t make sense to me. I have an Intel 3770 which is 4c/8t. How is that numbering allocating cores to a VM in Unraid?
Well, I’m done. I don’t get it. I tried making a Win11 VM, it got thru about 80% of the install controlling it via VNC, then the VNC locked up, so I closed it and reconnected and got a black screen. When I look in the dashboard the CPU cores are bouncing all over the place. So I let it sit a few minutes to see if it finished and tried VNC again. Black screen again.
Ok, so I deleted the VM and tried again, now the Win install tells me my machine doesn’t meet the reqs for Win 11. WTF? Why in hell can’t I get a Windows VM to work on this hardware?
cpu 0 / 4 means core 0 is physical and core 4 is the logical core that resides on core 0. So cores 0-3 are physical, 5-7 are logical. They pair them that way so you know which logical core is using which physical core.
By default if you don’t select any cores, the VM will use all of them.
I don’t think the 3770 is supported on Win 11. Try installing Windows 10.
it weird because it worked the first time, then it just said Nope!
Oh well, back down to Win10 for this VM … yuck.