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Attaching USB Storage to the DNS-323 for Linux Newbies & Dummies.
HOWTO Mount an External USB Disc

Last edited by Mijzelf (2009-10-01 14:54:55)

Well since your skill level is kind of low you may not know what the previous guy was saying about connecting the NAS directly to your computer so I'm going to go over the steps in case you needed them. What you need to do is create a sort of mini-network from your computer to your NAS. The way you do this is several steps:

assign an IP Address to your NAS (ex: 192.168.0.32)
now go to your computer and find the view network connections
right click on your LAN connection> select Properties> click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)>click Properties>
select the Use the following IP Address
Type 192.168.0.40 (only change the last number from the NAS IP)
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Click OK and you should now be in the same network as your NAS.

Now you can find the NAS by going to Windows Explorer and selecting My Network Places, doing a right click and selecting Explore on several levels
You should be able to find your NAS in Microsoft Windows Network and now you can just drag and drop files into the NAS. My PC is at Gigabit Ethernet so it transfers pretty fast. When you're done, don't forget to go back to your PC and put your IP address setting as before.

Thanks for the replies guys. I had suspected that the way I first tried it required the data to transfer wirelessly so then I connected my laptop to the router directly and connected my ext HDD to my laptop. This increased transfer time to about 16/mbs which was good enough. Had I also connected the NAS directly to my computer would transfer time have been even greater? Airport Extreme is supposedly gigabit.

toolbox wrote:

Just for discussion sake. If OP is able to mount the USB drive off the USB port of his/her DNS-323, what other software does the DNS-323 need in order to read/write NTFS/FAT files? (From the original post, I assume the dirve is not formatted to ext2 or ext3.)

Just for discussion sake - if the OP is able to mount the USB drive off the USB port of the DNS-323 no other software is required to read/write NTFS/FAT files - once the drive has been mounted the files can simply be copied to the desired location.

However - in order to mount the USB drive off the USB port he needs telnet access, along with USB and NTFS kernel modules - there are a couple of threads in the forum that provide the details - it's not difficult, but for a linux newb, it can be challenging.