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haydnw · 2007-06-12 23:06:11

I've just bought a DNS-323 to go with my new Mac. It's up and running on the network, but I was just wondering if someone could answer me a couple of questions please?

1) I can connect to the drive in Finder by going "Go" > "Connect to Server" and then in the "Server Address" box entering "cifs://MYWORKGROUP;haydn@NASDRIVE/VOLUME_1". This works fine but I've read about other Mac users connecting using SMB (I think) - am I correct in thinking this, and is there any major advantage or disadvantage over the current method I'm using?

2) The attached laser printer works fine from my Windows machine, but I really don't know how to install it on the Mac. I've seen the Wiki page about Appletalk etc - do I really have to go through all that? Is there really no way of just making it work straight out of the box? I'm quite happy to run Linux commands, compile, etc with a set of instructions in front of me, but I don't really know enough about CUPS etc to be able to work it out myself!

I've actually realised that there's a third question! Can I rename the drive from "VOLUME_1" to something else? It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice!

My apologies for all the questions, but I've been very pleased with the DNS-323 so far and just want to resolve these last little niggles to have the system set up perfectly.

frodo · 2007-06-12 23:55:19

The latest version of SMB is known as CIFS.
SMB and CIFS is basicly the same thing.

Pingu · 2007-06-13 08:55:44

Hi haydnw

Printing from a mac using samba is easier than from windows :-)
Bellow is a link with a good explanation of how to make it work http://www.menet.umn.edu/docs/mac_os/10 … index.html
The only problem with CIFS or SMB (in my opinion) are the filenames and the fact that on my box the connection gets dropped after a while. If you install fonz great fun_plug and etch I have compiled netatalk so that the file sharing is a bit more mac like. I can post a small how-to if you want

cheers
Pingu

haydnw · 2007-06-19 17:01:04

Thanks for the replies guys, sorry it's taken me so long to get back but I've been away.

One step closer with printing - if I follow the instructions on the link given then the laser printer "spins up" when I ask it to print something, but that's all! It then just stops and the Mac tells me that printing was successful. Haven't really had time to play with it yet though, so I'll have a mess about over the next couple of days and see what happens.

zzmanlh · 2007-07-13 16:59:43

I think I also have this problem, but im not sure if I have a URI to input.

I just purchased a Dlink-323 3 days ago and installed it to my system as a file and print server. My system is composed of 2 laptops (Hp Pavilion and Macbook),a multi-function printer (HP Deskjet F380), the NAS (Dlink-323 with 2x500 Samsung SATA2) and a wireless router (Dlink Dl-624). I have succesfully installed all the components but failed in printing with the Macbook thru the NAS as print server. I would like to know the proper way of solving this problem. Please advise.

stevep · 2007-08-04 04:35:10

Back to haydnw's third question... possible to rename Volume_1?

I set up fun_plug and telnetted in... someone else had mentioned modifying smb.conf... found that file in /etc/samba. That file and also /etc/shared_name contain the "Volume_1" name but they both appear to be overlaid whenever the box is rebooted.

Additionally I found /etc/satamount which does appear to actually name the volume(s) on the RAID array. But that was some scary-looking shell script. I have the feeling that file is probably answer to my question but I didn't want to botch my RAID in the process.

Has anybody actually done this and could comment on the steps needed?

stevep · 2007-08-04 05:21:24

I think I found my answer. The reason I didn't want Volume_1 was I really wanted to mimic the \\myserver\myfolder share name I used on my old Windows server (which the DNS-323 is replacing) so I wouldn't have to redo a bunch of mapped drives and shortcuts.

I found that renaming the device to "myserver" (on the Setup / Device page of the config utility) and adding a share called "myfolder" (on the Advanced / Network Access page) gave the desired effect. So my old shortcuts to \\myserver\myfolder still work.

Just thought I would share that.

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