DNS-323 Network Storage

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can someone help? thx

Did you try what's been said a few pages back? After changing whatever stated earlier, wait for a minute or so and see if machine catch the itune server multicast. High chance is Vista is ignoring multicast or your router is not working with muticast/IGMP....
 

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thanks Rogue for ur reply yea, i tried everything there already b4 i posted.

my home network is such, both PC/laptop running vista home premium/business

starhub - netgear router - home plug -

- home plug - dlink router (no WAN) - desktop pc + dlink dns-323 + home laptop (itunes)

* all firewall in LAN has been turned off on the PC/laptop
* UPnP AV has been disabled on dns-323
* iTunes enabled

the other thing i tried was having the desktop pc running itunes and i clicked to share the libraries there, my laptop also cannot pick that up and vice versa.

i ran tcpview to ensure the 3689 port is listening for itunes on the laptop, is there a setup problem with my network or is it just a vista problem? or is it that home premium is conflicting with itunes server ports?
 
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try to install transmission and clutch, but doesn't seems to work.
After that I cannot see the files using windows explorer anymore, is that normal?
I can still access to the login admin page, but cannot see files using windows, so I got to reformat again?
 

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woah... i'm gonna come back to this thread for research when i get my set soon. Heh...
 

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thanks Rogue for ur reply yea, i tried everything there already b4 i posted.

my home network is such, both PC/laptop running vista home premium/business

starhub - netgear router - home plug -

- home plug - dlink router (no WAN) - desktop pc + dlink dns-323 + home laptop (itunes)

* all firewall in LAN has been turned off on the PC/laptop
* UPnP AV has been disabled on dns-323
* iTunes enabled

the other thing i tried was having the desktop pc running itunes and i clicked to share the libraries there, my laptop also cannot pick that up and vice versa.

i ran tcpview to ensure the 3689 port is listening for itunes on the laptop, is there a setup problem with my network or is it just a vista problem? or is it that home premium is conflicting with itunes server ports?

Well read your user manual on all the devices along the way to the vista machine and see if they have options not to drop or block or forward multicast/IGMP packets.... If anyone of them block or drop or corrupts the packet, you are out of luck.

E.g Linksys require filter multicast to be checked , also by having multiple routers require a few special configuration like using router mode instead of gateway mode(for router not linked to the wan/internet), then enabling Dynamic Routing(RIP) and even specifically create a static route in the router just in case you are using multiple local networks....

All this network mumbo jumbo, try asking around in the internet/networking forum.

Finally if the packet does reach the vista machine, vista might also block/drop the packet. Then I will say , welcome to the world of vista. Try vista service pack 1 and see if it helps... or not. Apparently the issue is not "DNS-323" related, so good luck.
 
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right..thanks Rogue, i guess i'll try the engineer's way, i'll just plug out everything and use the router connected to a pc and dns-323 and start from there to connect things one by one.
 

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my itunes server doesn't work too... i thought its as simple as enable, set folder to where all ur mp3s are, run an itunes software on a pc on same network and voila shld show up, but i get nothing.

Adding a folder from the itunes works fine though

just to add that i'm running:
iTunes v7
Windows Vista
DNS-323 v1.04 with itunes enabled

can someone help? thx

Are u on using Vista SP1? Rouge hav help me alot in the troubleshooting and still can't get it work. My desktop which is running Vista w/o SP1 is working fine with itunes. I think it could be SP1 problem.
 

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not sure but i guess so since i have left windows update turned on, it sounds more like a network issue to me. maybe i need to see ethereal if the mutlicast messages are getting published, anybody knows on what port does the dns-323 publishes the multicast message to clients?

i know client receives them through port 3689
 

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not sure but i guess so since i have left windows update turned on, it sounds more like a network issue to me. maybe i need to see ethereal if the mutlicast messages are getting published, anybody knows on what port does the dns-323 publishes the multicast message to clients?

i know client receives them through port 3689

If you read the link earlier , there's port 5353 UDP for the broadcast. Might change, check netstat -abn in the cmd console.
 

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Just take note that the itunes server need some time to generate the list of medias.
 

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got 1 idea to share with u guys.

Provided you are not using the usb port.

Plug a usb fan into the usb port. helps to keep the nas cool at all times. :D

Sometimes i used it the fan to blow at me. =:p
 

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I think I might have solved the mystery of the iTunes server.

Was trying to understand why the iTunes daemon could not start up properly. After repeated ps-es, caught this on my screen:

4295 nobody mt-daapd
4296 root mt-daapd
4301 root mt-daapd
4305 root mt-daapd
4315 root mt-daapd
4425 root sh -c detect_char_encode "֣????????????֣????ǧ?? (??Ѫ????ԯ????????)"
4426 root detect_char_encode ֣????????????֣????ǧ?? (??Ѫ????ԯ????????)

Immediately after this, there goes my iTunes daemon.

So I guess the daemon ran into error while indexing the directories for MP3 files and the filename so happens to be unicoded.

I immediately changed the iTunes directory to /fun_plug.d which surely has no unicoded filenames in the entire depth.

Voila! Daemon did not die, port 3689 opened and listening!

Changed the directory to root or Volume_1 root and the daemon dies.

Funny thing is in HD_a4/.... I can see the mtaapd file populated with some unicoded filenames. Hmm...

More investigation...

Update:
Hmm... ok, I pointed to a directory with unicode filenames but no problems... Hmm... Maybe some files in some directories or related is causing the mtaapd daemon to die when indexing... Perhaps not unicoded names... One way of telling if mtaapd is having problem indexing your MP3 is also through the web admin interface. If you click on refresh and somehow it won't progress properly then you met a stumbling block. It will never index and will never listen and never stream. Maybe try to see if there's log files anywhere to capture what error it encountered.

Update 2:
Ok, found some issues with the iTunes server. Seemingly it does not understand Korean even though it seems to support unicode as it has no problems with my Chinese songs.

This is what I get if I add them to my album:
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This is what I get if I add the same files to iTunes server:
2vudbuf.png


I'm quite sure I've removed other ID3 tags so this should not be a versioning issue but nevertheless maybe something that I may look into other time.
 
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Now that I sort of resolved the iTunes issue, I successfully POC'ed a neat little trick if I may.

I created /Volume_1/iTunes and then created symlinks to whichever MP3 folders that I want to share out.

I imagine that some people may want to selectively server out some MP3. So maybe the simplest method is to create a directory and then copy in. This way wastes space. So using symlinks resolves the issue.

Or some people just set the root so that all MP3 files are also served. Waste of resource and index refresh is slow not to mention that iTunes would be cut off when refreshing.

So how else can you use it? Start a cron or something to randomly put certain directories symlinks every now and then and you get a flavour of the week. Not sure if playlist can be served out as well?
 

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got 1 idea to share with u guys.

Provided you are not using the usb port.

Plug a usb fan into the usb port. helps to keep the nas cool at all times. :D

Sometimes i used it the fan to blow at me. =:p
eh ican use hub or not ar

going to install printer leh... haha
 

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Well, I went ahead and installed the disgusting iTune for testing

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iTune runs a lot of useless processes, two of which are the most important, namely iTunes.exe(main application) and mDNSResponder.exe(the one that does the broadcast/multicast).

It works fine, detected my DNS-323 within 1-2 seconds as shown inside the red oval. As you can see, it works for chinese characters for both the folder and the file names.Tried creating my own Korean MP3 and it worked too. Only thing I changed in iTune setting is check "Look for shared libraries" under Sharing preference tab.

Remember it MUST be unicode(UTF-8) encoded tags, and version ID3v2. There's a option in iTune to convert ID3 tag via Reverse Unicode (read iTune help for more info), or you can download third party software to convert the tag to unicode. This is to be done prior of storing mp3 into the NAS.

Here's my comodo firewall settings , windows xp with its internal firewall turned off.
iTunes.exe
-Allow Outgoing HTTP Request , TCP port 80
-Allow Outgoing TCP Requests, Destination 127.0.0.1 Any TCP.
-Allow Outgoing TCP Request to DNS-323 Only, Destination 192.16x.xx.xx , TCP port 3689
-Block and Log All Unmatching Requests, basically blocks everything else and log it

mDNSResponder.exe
-Allow Outgoing DNS Request, UDP port 53
-Allow Outgoing Multicast, UDP port 5353
-Block and Log All Unmatching Requests

Oh well, going to uninstall this iTune junk and go back to using foobar2000.

BTW: Putty don't display Korean Text....Samba and iTunes does though, I wonder why, probably I need to change the font display even after I set Translation to UTF-8.
 
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Does anyone know if the DNS-323 will work with Apple MAC leapard OS? If so how to setup as looking to buy one. thanks
 

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Yes it works since OS x supports Samba (SMB). I've covered it before, do a little search.
 

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i know nuts, but how to download BT? I set it up, then downloaded shadowandy's Real Simple Edition, and reboot, so now I go to :4080, and there is all these interfaces, then what do I do?
 

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HELP!

Hi i just installed the d-link dns-323, however i have no idea how to access my drive. I am firmware version 1.03..

1, Search utility finds the device dlink-95D123 at top, ip netmask, gateway address in the middle and volume 1 at the bottom.

2. when i click on CONNECT for VOLUME 1 it comes with a message FAILED TO MAP DRIVE

what am i doing wrong?

also in the configuaration it did say that if i want to access my drive, need to enter dlink-95D123 on my browzer so on my internet browzer i type http://dlink-95D123 but doesnt work.

What am i doing wrong?

Appreciate your help and i thank you in advance,
 
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