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I recently got a DNS-323. My initial setup was RAID-1 with firmware 1.5 (I upgraded from the 1.4 that came with the device). My DNS-323 was visible in iTunes and I could browse the music.
Then I made several changes. First, I decided to use a standard two drive configuration instead of RAID-1. I made the change using these steps I found on the forum:
1. Power down unit
2. Remove RIGHT drive
3. Power up unit
4. Format LEFT drive (using the unit's GUI wizard under Tools>>Raid>>Set Raid Type and reformat - even though you do not want a Raid setup)
5. Power down unit after reformat is completed
6. Install RIGHT drive
7. Power up and use
This worked great and I now had two standard drives. It did, however, cause my Volume_1 and Volume_2 to get switched (Volume_1 is HD_b2 and Volume_2 is HD_a2).
I then installed fun_plug 0.5 on Volume_2 (it didn't work on Volume_1, because of the switch mentioned above, I guess). This worked great as well! (Thank you fonz for your awesome work!)
I made a few other changes: I enabled the root account and ssh and disabled telnet. I also installed subversion. Everything is working. Cool! Except the iTunes server.
I've tried restarting the iTunes server from the web UI. I've tried restarting it from the command-line (/usr/sbin/mt-daapd). No matter what, I can't get it to show up in iTunes anymore. More than that, I can't even get it to listen. netstat -l shows that there's nothing listening on port 3689, and no, I haven't changed the default port. But when I restart the server I can see that it does scan for music (I see those detect_char_encode commands in ps).
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
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No ideas? Should I just give up and install the latest Firefly?
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Does this help?
http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t2781-iTun … rface.html
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Thanks for the suggestion, RunaR, but the problem was something else.
My problem was caused by a few mp3s with unicode text in the ID3 tags. It seems that mt-daapd (the iTunes server) exits with a seg. fault when scanning those mp3s on startup. I didn't notice this before because I didn't know there was a lengthy startup procedure (around 20 min for 60 GB of music!). The server would crash silently after a few minutes and, as it turns out, it starts listening on port 3689 only after startup is finished. Since it never got that far I never saw anything listening on the port, even though mt-daapd is visible as a running process for a while.
I hope unicode support is fixed in newer versions of the server!
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For anyone who is interested, installing Firefly from http://files.hesse-n.com/ch3snas/ fixed the issue for me.
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Hi,
Just stumble upon this post.
I have a dns-321. Was working well with latest firmware (1.01 i think). But after putting some music that i had on different hdd over the years, i can not see the server on my itunes anymore.
i tried to telnet the command from the link for broken itunes, but only got:
/ffp/bin/sh: cp/sys/crfs/default/mt-daapd.conf/etc/mt-daapd.conf: not found
do i still need to telnet this command or my issue is similar to the one on this post ?
Thanks
Sebastien
Edit: i am a noob at command and stuff.
- how do i install all of those packages ?
- can i remove them later on ?
- what do i need to change in the conf file if my music is under Volume_1/Music ?
Last edited by sbabolat (2008-12-21 17:01:16)
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