Hard drive attached to xserver doesn't show up on the network.

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Hard drive attached to xserver doesn't show up on the network.

I have an xserver on 10.5.8. Attached to it is a datatale box with 4 internal Hard drives. 2 hard drives are for storage, and 2 are for mirrored backup. The 2 hard drives for storage need to be accessable on the network, but one of them is not showing up.

At the moment I am moving the problem hard drive to attach directly to a work station computer when I need to access it, and back to the server when it needs backing up.

How can I get the hard drive to show up on the networked computers, when attached to the server? This is a problem that we have been coping with, but been unable to solve for some time.

Any advice will be much appreciated.

Xserve, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Network via ethernet

Posted on Jan 22, 2014 3:52 AM

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Camelot

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Jan 24, 2014 5:28 PM in response to Fezjez

Not much in your post to go by...

In general, just because a device it attached to the server that doesn't automatically make it available to clients. You have to identify the volume(s) to share over the network via the Server admin apps.

However, since one volume works and another doesn't, I kind of assume you know this, and have done it for one, which begs the question of why you haven't done it for the other.

The other missing data is how you're trying to access the volumes... what protocol are you using from the client? AFP? FTP? NFS? something else? That can also make a difference.

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Jan 27, 2014 2:07 AM in response to Camelot

Thanks Camelot. Unfortunately I didn't set up the server. We have a LAN with ethernet connection (just 4 computers plus server). The hard drive that currently has the problem, used to be shared without problems, via the server. However the volume was re-named, and set up by an admin guy who we get in to help occasionally. It's since then we've had the problems.

My knowledge is a bit limited in this area. I haven't looked at server admin yet (which I guess, should have been the first place to look). I will feed back once I have.

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Fezjez Author

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Jan 27, 2014 2:27 AM in response to Camelot

OMG that was so easy to sort! It was just a matter of going ionto server admin and clicking the "share" button. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Camelot.

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