I used to configure the DNS320 well, with everything running but recently I can’t even log onto the WEBUI. I tried typing in the IP address but it generated an error instead – “This webpage is not available.”

The path that I designated for the NAS is still marked in ‘My Computer’ and although the folders are still there, the files in it are gone and some even marked grey.

I’ve restarted the NAS and PC and router altogether but to no avail.

I have a feeling that I just have to allow my router or something to talk to my NAS again but I am not sure how to. Or did I accidentally change my IP address of my router or PC thus this happens.

I sincerely hope you’re able to help me out here please!

Thank you

Do you have an example of using gzip with a pipe?

From Googling, only one I found is from the one below:

http://ididntknowthisyesterday.blogspot.co.nz/2008/09/pipe-into-gzip.html

using

cat myfile.txt | gzip -f > myfile.txt.gz

Will this work for binary files as well?

FYI, reason am wanting to use a pipe is due to lack of disk space, I have 500MB left and am trying to gzip a 400M file. Am assuming by using a pipe, it will use the memory instead of the available disk space while the gzip is in progress, is this correct?

mencoder “original_file.mkv” -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts fixed_quant=2:threads=2 -alang en -o “converted_file.avi”

I added
&sout=1

to the end of the string and it still doesn’t seem to work for me.

any thoughts?

thanks

I have set up my NAS as a raid 1 hard drive, i need to backup 500 gb of photos and require a “mirror image”. The NAS has 2 x 1TB seagate hard dive installed.
I Copied 120GB of data to volume 1 and went onto the management system to check the exact same amount of data had been copied to volume 2.
Questions being:

Should i be able to see 2 volumes? as per your comment above i should only see 1?
If i should have 2 volumes do i need to schedule a local backup to mirror the data? (i was under the assumption this would be automatic??)
When i look on my shared devices on my mac i can see 2 seperate DNS 320′s, although both have the same 2 volumes and data?

Thanks, as im sure you have guessed this is my first NAS, I bought it specifically for the ability to have a mirrored backup to ensure i dont lose my data. If you dont consider this fullproof what are your recommendations?

This is a bias review from someone claiming to be an expert. I got it hooked up, and ready to go in 30 minutes with 2x 500Gb HDD for testing.

I had my FTP access working, and toyed with the internal Torrent App.. All in all, took me 1 hour from setup to having my wife come in to transfer her work files in.

Your difficulty in setting up is crap. You know you HAVE to connect this to a router. it’s even SHOWN on the box. What are you talking about?

If you are going to review a product, please be professional about it. This box may be inexpensive, it’s still a 800Mhz x 128Mb based solution that is affordable to many who may not need to shoot the roof with a Synology 1.6Ghz based NAS.

I am not saying this is the DNS320 is the best in the world. But it’s definately not as crappy as you put it.

After initial setup and all seemed fine until the connectivity to the DNS disappeared. (Oddly started after I changed from using wireless to ethernet from my macbook). Rebooting resolved the connectivity issue for about 5 minutes when the network connection would fail again repeatedly.

I resolved the issue by resetting the DNS and since then everything seems to be OK.

My final issue with the DNS is the time it is taking to copy files to it. I’m guessing that in RAID1 configuration copy performance is compromised.

I am a happy user of nas d-link sharecenter dns-320 (pulse)

Usually I use this through its web interface, but since I’m
also a happy linux user that always prefers to use
software in command-line so I created a simple script
management p2p and other basic functionality(for now).
I created a Mercurial repository on Bitbucket to this address:

https://bitbucket.org/zakis_/dns-320-command-line

You can download it and use it freely, hopefully useful, for example via
to check your NAS remotely through a linux server.

I hope to use it than you think to help me to add new
useful features, in a short time to cover all aspects of the NAS.

Happy Hacking
z4k

I have purchased a DNS-320 for using it as a media server and for running scheduled backups. Because of your comments and other people’s opinions, I will have a second back up made in an external drive, just in case.

Before buying this device, I used to stream movies (720p) from an external WD My Book hard drive to my WDTV Live Streaming media player (with built-in wifi n) connecting the hard drive via USB to my wireless n router. All videos played flawlessly.

When I bought this device, I connected it to my router’s gigabit wired port and played videos on my WDTV. When I play videos from my network shares, they freeze after some minutes and some of them even stops playing. However, when I play from media server (UPnP), they play fine, albeit without displaying subtitles. Moreover, the files show up in non-alphabetical order and it is hard to browse through my movie collection.

I cannot understand why I could play videos from network shares of my WD My Book connected via USB to my router, and I cannot play them well from my DNS-320 via a gigabit wired network.

Thank you for your comments.

If you’re set up in RAID 1, your drives are ‘consolidated’ into one drive. The fact that there are two drives is intentionally masked to look like 1 drive, due to the redundancy of your data across both drives.

All that to say: you’re fine.

thanks

Gary

Gary

On page 20 are the instructions on how to set up this device without using DHCP.