Running On Unraid and Syncing from my Windows Machine to my Unraid Shares

[masterchef]

Hi all. I have been using the program very successfully on my Windows machines (now 10 & 11) for years. Recently I built an Unraid server and installed the Unraid version of the program. However I have been unable to find my source folders on my windows machines in the FFS consol. Can anyone please give me a run through of how to run FFS on Unraid and use it to sync from my windows machines to my SMB shares on Unraid. Running FFS on my windows machines and syncing to the same shares works just great. Seems no point in running FFS on Unraid if I cannot sync between machines and OS`s?

[xCSxXenon]

If the Windows machines are now the remote locations, they need to have network shares set up.

how to run FFS on Unraid and use it to sync from my windows machines to my SMB shares on Unraid

It sounds like you need to be syncing from Windows shares to local Unraid now, right?

[masterchef]

That`s right control from Unraid - source (Windows Machine) - destination Unraid SMB share (currently set up as a share on Unraid called "Music" and set to Public.

[Plerry]

I am not familiar with Unraid servers, but as xCSxXenon already wrote:

If the Windows machines are now the remote locations, they need to have network shares set up.

On your Windows machine(s), you need to make the 'to be synced' folders available for remote access (=have network shares set up). You should then be able to access those in FFS via the location [IPadressWindowsMachine]/[sharename].

Or, if Unraid is anywhere near Linux, you can then mount the remote Windows location(s) in Unread as a remote drive, so they will appear and can be browsed in the Unraid File Explorer equivalent.
Once that works, it should then also work in FFS on your Unraid server.

[LeoW]

Unraid server is a proprietary Linux distribution that you have to pay for.

I presume he's running Samba Server.

If both the Windows machine, and the Unraid server could be running SSH Server then they could sync that way.

FFS would work in both directions this way. If the two machines got separated by a router over the Internet port forwarding would enable FFS To continue to work with SSH&SFTP but not with SMB.

Just a thought.

[FilewalkerDotNet]

Hi FFS, first post by me and thought it might be useful to bump this one up instead of creating a new post.

I recently set up an Unraid instance on my local network, works fine so far. I configured shares, which are being exported with secure access. Those shares are available on my windows machines (currently one for testing purposes, shall be rolled out to 4 windows clients in total).

Use case: I'd like to have synchronized user folders on every windows machine (documents, pictures, videos, music). Every client should have access to the same, up-to-date, library of files.

I am using windows FFS v13.9 DE (thank you for this great utility) and have each machine configured to use it's own synchronizations (also using batchjobs with windows task planned as documented). Currently those synchronizations runs agains a Synology NAS and its shared public folders, works very good.

Challenge: When changing the clients synchronization target from Synology NAS to the Unraid SMB share, FFS is not able to rename (move?) '.ffs_tmp' files to the dedicated file name. The exception is: "ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS: A file cannot be created if it already exists. [MoveFileEx]".

I assumed permissions on the target (nobody,users,0666 for files, out-of-the-box Unraid) could be the cause, but I could not find the reason, why the secure user should not be able to change files.

Deactivating the FFS-tmp files did not help but underlines the permission topic, it just changes the exception to CopyFileEx.

Setting the Unraid SMB share to Public and using the secure access from within windows also did not help.

I probably give a childs impression and I am sort of frustrated ... what am I missing? Could you assist please? Thanks in advance.

[expo]

Registered for an account to say I am getting the same exact error.

ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND: The system cannot find the file specified. [CopyFileEx]