DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Thanks - I will try that. At the moment I just access it by the ip address - but you never know.

I have had a look at the known issues page and the first issue (Vista can't access after a while) sounds a similar problem. However my machine is Windows XP SP3, and the same things happens on a laptop that is XP SP2 as well as another machine that is Vista - whereas that issue noted that XP was fine.

Does it sound like a serious problem - I am half thinking of replacing it?

Cheers

bq041 wrote:

If you are using the name of the dns, the issue is that your computer "forgets" the name because it is not broadcast but at the startup of the DNS-323.  A domain name server (DNS server) or a WINS server would log the name and store it in the table.  When your computer tries to access is, the DNS or WINS serfer would resolve the name to an ip address, allowing the computer to find the device.  Since your network most likely does not contain either of those servers, access is limited to only the amount of time you computer "remembers" the address.  By placing the address in the hosts and lmhosts file, this is polled prior to sending out for a DNS server to resolve the address.  This is actually a pretty much normal symptom on small networks.  This is why you can access by ip address, but not name, but the name works again after you reboot the DNS323.

So few words, so much information!

Your explanation is very helpful and greatly appreciated.

Bob

Are you connecting wireless, or with the cable?

What do you mean by "network shares"?  Do you have mapped drives, or are accessing them via network manager?  When you say intermittant loss, do you mean the connection drops while transefering data, or is it not found when rying to open it up?  If you are using a mapped drive, does the drive letter disappear, or just give you an error.

There are some problems with windows network explorer that do cause it to not find other systems, so I would suggest always accessing the DNS via a mapped drive.  If this is the problem, try mapping the drive and see if it goes away.

The message is as follows:

Z:\ is not accessible

Configuration information could not be read from the domain controller, either because the machine is unavailable, or access has been denied.

Last edited by stevo71 (2008-10-17 03:20:14)

Hi - I tried the mapping and it is still the same. Just had a look at the box earlier, and the two disk drive lights were white and the main power switch was white. I powered down and it was fine for a few hours. Had the same problem just a minute ago and the two disk drives were flashing amber and white, but the power light remained blue.

I know that amber lights is a sign of something wrong, but does anyone have any ideas about the white lights, is this really an fault or some kind of unresolved firmware issue?

Thanks

Just been looking at the 1.06 firmware note on the D-Link forum site, and noticed this page with people having similar issues. Sounds like it could be the firmware - so I will revert to 1.04 and see if it stops the intermittent issues. Perhaps 1.06 will solve this?

Hi - Just for information, I had the problem when I went from version 1.04 to 1.05. I tried all of the advice given but it still did not sort it. In the end I went back to 1.04. However, when 1.06 came out I upgraded and haven't had a problem (that has been for many months now). So perhaps version 1.07 suffers from a similar bug that was also in 1.05?

My advice would be to go back to 1.06 until this is sorted again.

Cheers

Steve