Unfortunately no one can be told what fun_plug is - you have to see it for yourself.
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It seems that D-Link has released plug and play Vista drivers for the DNS-323 - they're on the D-Link Germany ftp site - but since there is no link on the support page, I have to assume that it is not an official release.
ftp://ftp.dlink.de/dns/dns-323/driver_s … 080509.zip
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Given that I'm too lazy to set up a Vista VM to test them, what would these drivers let me do?
:-)
Last edited by sjmac (2008-05-13 19:26:57)
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I already have a "photo" type icon of the DNS323 in my "Network Map" with 1.04 firmware and no drivers, although the device is also listed with generic server icons too.
I don't think I've ever seen a "new hardware found" message - perhaps the drivers are needed to support the new features in the 1.05 (LLTD?)
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I believe you have to have the uPnP AV server enabled, and of course be running Vista - I have seen the message once - I had borrowed my son's laptop (he uses Vista, I don't) so that I could fool around with the print server issues and try to simulate some of the problems that other users had reported.
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These drivers for both 32 & 64 bit Vista are also available from the US support site.
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correction.the 64 bit driver dont work
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I am using Vista at home with my DNS-323. Do I need this Vista Driver, and if so, what exactly do I do with it once downloaded?
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Patrick - that would depend on what you're using the DNS-323 for - the driver is apparently not needed to use it for network storage - it may be needed if you want to use it as an audio/video server.
If your Vista system is not prompting you to install a driver every time it boots up, and you're happy with what you're doing I would just ignore the driver - on the other hand - if Vista is prompting for a driver, just point it to the folder with the unzipped files and it should load them.
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fordem wrote:
Patrick - that would depend on what you're using the DNS-323 for - the driver is apparently not needed to use it for network storage - it may be needed if you want to use it as an audio/video server.
If your Vista system is not prompting you to install a driver every time it boots up, and you're happy with what you're doing I would just ignore the driver - on the other hand - if Vista is prompting for a driver, just point it to the folder with the unzipped files and it should load them.
It was asking for the drivers but I told Vista to never ask me again. How do I tell Vista to ask for the drivers again?
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Minglarn wrote:
It was asking for the drivers but I told Vista to never ask me again. How do I tell Vista to ask for the drivers again?
you should have an unknown device in your device manager. there choose update driver.
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Thanks ...
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And if I throw those driver files on my desktop, and then update the driver using those files, can I then delete them from my desktop, or does Windows reference those files right there on the desktop?
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I would assume that you can delete them from the desktop - but that is an assumption, and based on Windows "pre Vista".
Think about this - when you load drivers from a diskette or CD, do you have to leave the diskette or CD in the drive? No - Windows would usually copy the driver into Windows\system32\drivers - or something similar - the exact location may change from version to version.
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WARNING
This driver has blue screened 2 vista business machines of mine.
BSOD when shutting down.
Only resolved with windows restore to remove the driver,
FWIW.
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So this is causing my Vista to BSOD every time I shut down my computer!!
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Yeah, just had a shocking time finding that out this weekend, not only that but I can't delete the bloody driver off one of them. The other is shutting down just fine since restore. I installed a few other things, but since rempving the driver it resolves it.
It even slows to a crawl uninstalling the driver, or even diabling it also manages to basically stall the computer.
Mind you, it was "nice" to have the DNS as a picture on the network instead of a white boxed logo.
For all I would recommend, just click on - "don't remind me agin about this driver", as I don't notice much difference without it, that I can't resolve with network mapping.
Anyone else with better advice? Just my experience.
Or if anyone knows how to delete a driver from vista without properly "uninstalling" through device manager?
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After I installed the driver I had the problem that every time I connected my DNS-323 my Vista 64 machine would blue screen. Looking at the INF file I noticed that the nascoins.dll file wasn't being copied to the system32 directory. Once I manually copied it there (the DNS323NascoinsAmd64.dll file was present) everything worked fine.
Hope that helps.
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