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I had that problem after rebuilding a drive in a raid 1 dont know why it disappeared.  You have to make the folder in the web access in the folder permission section.

> Any more ideas?

Yes, use telnet, make directory .lpd on /mnt/HD_a2, and change the rights of dir to 777 (I think it is necessary that everyone is able to write/modify the content of dir, so everyone can send the file to printer)

Jacek

acglj wrote:

> Any more ideas?

Yes, use telnet, make directory .lpd on /mnt/HD_a2, and change the rights of dir to 777 (I think it is necessary that everyone is able to write/modify the content of dir, so everyone can send the file to printer)

Jacek

For me as linux nono, i don't know how to create a directory with telnet. Could you specify the command? I have telnet available via fonz funplug.

and then maybe
ls -ald .lpd
to check that the other commands have worked. It should look like this:

BusyBox v1.8.1 (2007-11-20 23:39:08 CET) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/mnt/HD_a2 # ls -ald /mnt/HD_a2/.lpd
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         4096 Feb  3 21:48 /mnt/HD_a2/.lpd
/mnt/HD_a2 #

By the way, when I upgraded to firmware 1.04 and reformatted my drives as two separate"standard" drives, the .lpd directory seems to have been created automatically

=== edit ===

I did have to run the format twice because it seemed to "get stuck" the first time, and I upgraded from 1.03 via a prerelease version of 1.04, so maybe that made a difference?

Last edited by sjmac (2008-02-28 10:43:11)

I just got my DNS-323, and had the same problem. It shipped with FW 1.03 installed, and I read online that there was a new 1.04, so I upgraded to it after my initial setup, and before formatting. I then had two issues that I had to call D-Link tech support about. The first was that after formatting my dual Seagate 500's as RAID1, the status showed that I only had 7.5 megabytes worth of storage. At this time, my print server saw my DeskJet 950 and printed out a test page (solid proof!). When I called tech support, they said to just reformat the drives. When I did that, the storage showed up correctly as 460 GB (40 GB overhead on each drive? Yikes!) But then, the printer didn't work. The status screen still showed the Desk Jet installed, but sending anything to that printer died immediately. I noticed that I had a hidden folder (I turn on viewing of all files and folders) named .systemfile, but no .lpd.

The Boys in Bangalore were stumped, and I got escalated to different people twice, but they couldn't help me. When I came here and read this thread, I decided I needed to learn about Linux for the first time. I was able to set up FTP and port over all the right files to install Telnet, but never got it to work. I finally bit the bullet and downgraded back to FW 1.03, then reformatted the drives again. After three formatting failures of different types, I finally got the drives to read correctly and noticed that I now had the infamous .lpd hidden folder back, and installed the printer so it worked. Then I upgraded to FW 1.04 to see the results. (Heck, there was nothing on the drives... it was only time). This time, I got the .systemfile folder created and it left the .lpd file in place. The Printer still worked! And the bonus was, suddenly I could now get Telnet to work as well, following exactly the same procedures I had used before which had failed. Now I put in Twonky Vison, too, because did the built-in UPnP server was cutting off long movies after a half-hour

So the moral... before you put any info on your new drives, make sure the print server and the FTP both work, turn on your hidden files and folders so you can see if you have both folders, and only then, start to backup data.

Whew! I will say that, despite about 8 hours of frustration, it was a bit fun, for an old DOS command-line person, to learn a few simple Linux commands and also use the built in Command-line FTP and Telnet clients hidden deep in Windows.

Tom