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

thanks bearxor!
Just curious, how can I telnet into the box? I'm not new to unix, but I am new to hacking into the dns-32x boxes.
Thanks again,
Gary

Whz don t you guys start by reading the wiki

http://dns323.kood.org/

Thanks.

Well I did it and :

"got a "not found" using telnet. i just installed ffp, and started putty and wrote the command line. Got a "

/ffp/bin/sh: cp/sys/crfs/default/mt-daapd.conf/etc/mt-daapd.conf: not found"


why ?

am new to linux command lines

So, because I am a noob I deleted all of the music stored (a lot!), reseted the 321, did not loaded the saved config (I re configure step by step), and now I am re-uploading my music, with itunes open and doing nothing else.

So far it is updating the library (slowly, way slower than the ftp). I will let it work all night and see what happens at the end (after I close itunes, turn off teh 321 and re-open everything.
If the itunes gui from the 321 crashes again, I will go for the linux command (and firefly).

All of that to say that I tried ffp, but got a no found.

Now, I do not know if firefly (if I need it) will be ok with the 321.

S.

I'm in a very similar situation, and I'd like to hear about other peoples experience trying to use the dns-323 work to
hack the dns-321.     Here is what I've found out and done so far:

I bought a DNS-321, thinking it would just work out of the box.   Well, that was wrong!   The built in backups and smbclient did not preserve the dates on the files.   So, I typed "hack dns-321" into google and it's been off to the races!!
I've been playing around with it a little bit each day.   

I installed a basic fun_plug using the how-to on this site, which worked.   (It's a great site, by the way!)

I installed ffp v.05 using the directions here, and that seems to work.   Initially, I had some problem with keeping the telnetd and sshd settings constant across reboots.   I also had path problems.   I reinstalled ffp and that worked.   I suspect there was some pilot error following the instructions the first time.

I set up an rsync daemon on my Windows 2k box and did some manual backups with rsync.   The rsync performance over 100Mbit ethernet seems really slow, between 300kbytes and 1.5megabytes per second.     But, it worked fine for small drives.

I found a really good article on the differences between dns-321 and dns-323:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30520/79/

I installed the optware system and I have not been able to get it working.   There have been two issues:
i) when I run /opt/bin/ipkg, I get a message that "file does not exist" or something like that, but it does not tell me which file does not exist.   
ii) when I try to install some of the packages manually, it does not pick up all of the files. 
Any help on that would be appreciated.

I tried installing the fancontrol stuff from fonz.    There appear to be differences between the platforms here and the dns-323 fan control stuff does not work on my machine.    The parameters to the "fanspeed" routine are different between the two boxes.   The 321 just has high, low and off, while the 323 seems to be more flexible.   I can't figure out how the box uses the two set point temperatures accessible through "temperature g 1" and "temperature g 2".    fonz's improved fanctl seems to have no effect.       I wrote a shell script to do fan control.    I'd be happy to post it, if I could figure out where one does that here. 

Has anyone tried the following items on the 321?:
fsck.ext2
armedslack
debian chroot
backup pc

If so, I'd like to hear how it went.   

In the short term, I'm going to configure this box to do rsnapshot style backup of my PC data.   The 1.5Mbyte transfer rate should be fine in steady state.    I just need to figure out a way to get the first backup (1.5TB or so) over there. 
I'll probably buy another 321 or 323 to play around with.   

Duaine

I thought I'd share my experience with my DNS-321 since most people in this thread had negative or troublesome experiences with it.

- fonz's fun_plug installed like a charm
- The only problem I ever had with sshd is that the first time you start it, it takes like 6min to create all the keys.
- lighttpd works very well with PHP, on port 80 thanks to the kickwebs.sh script
- transmission 1.72.4 works wonders, including the web interface. I got speed up to 1 MB/s, which is the capped speed of my modem.
- The supplied UPnP AV server works with most of my files when I stream to my PS3. And most servers I tried FAIL with error messages when I stream with my PS3 so I'm pretty happy. For the other files, it's usually because they need to be transcoded and then of course a flimsy 400 MHz single core processor cannot do that For that I start my quad core computer with PS3 Media Server installed on it. I just configured it to serve the files on the network share of the DNS-321 so I don't even have to move the files around. I just walk to the PC, turn it on and walk back to the PS3.
- To compile the stuff that does not come with ffp, the wiki page says you should install debian but I disagree. I installed the gcc, binutils, uclibc and kernel-headers packages included with ffp and compiled everything I wanted. Just be careful and install stuff in /ffp/bin and /ffp/lib instead of /bin and /lib

I encountered the problems talkingRock mentionned with the "fanspeed" command and fonz's dns323-* scripts but I think that all that stuff is beyond most user's needs anyways. All that stuff comes with the DNS-321 and works out of the box. If you're looking to add features to your DNS-321, ffp is the way. If you want to fiddle around with the hardware and fine-tune it, you might want to buy a 323 instead, or patch fonz's scripts. I just discovered the beta firmware and forum on dlink's web site so you might want to check that too.

This thing is the most "bang for the bucks" I ever paid in years

clickitysplit wrote:

I copied the fun_plug 0.5 files onto Volume_1 and restarted.  Nothing was unpacked.  Tarball was still there.

There are a few pitfalls. Please check the list of common problems at http://dns323.kood.org/howto:ffp#troubleshooting

PS: Both 0.4 and 0.5 write log files. You may want to look inside for status and error messages. The log files will also tell you if the telnet server was started.

How do I remove a buggered 0.4 install when I still can't telnet into the dns-321?  I can't delete any of the following.

Directory of Y:\fun_plug.d_old

07/25/2009  12:03 PM    <DIR>          .
07/25/2009  01:24 PM    <DIR>          ..
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          bin
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          etc
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          lib
07/23/2009  11:24 PM    <DIR>          log
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          sbin
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          start

During a subsequent attempt at installing 0.5, I followed the 'set executable on fun_plug' instructions via ftp (Note to Windows users:  you can't do this if you just drag and drop the files into Volume_1...you have to command-line FTP the files onto your DNS and then issue 'quote site chmod 777 fun_plug' from within windows ftp)...and got a little more success but still can't telnet.  Appears the script executed.  The tar file is gone.  An ffp folder exists now, and here are the contents of ffp.log:

**** fun_plug script for DNS-323 (2008-08-11 tp@fonz.de) ****
Sat Jul 25 21:24:30 BST 2009
ln -snf /mnt/HD_a2/ffp /ffp
* Installing /mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.tgz ...
tar: inflate error 2
/ffp/etc/rc: Not found or not executable

All suggestions welcome...

As a 321 owner, I can tell you that it couldn't be easier. You probably copied a fun_plug.txt (instead of fun_plug without any extension) file along with the fun_plug.tar the last time.

I'm glad you made it work, next step for when you are bored: Chrooting into debian on your 321

clickitysplit wrote:

How do I remove a buggered 0.4 install when I still can't telnet into the dns-321?  I can't delete any of the following.

Directory of Y:\fun_plug.d_old

07/25/2009  12:03 PM    <DIR>          .
07/25/2009  01:24 PM    <DIR>          ..
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          bin
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          etc
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          lib
07/23/2009  11:24 PM    <DIR>          log
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          sbin
07/24/2009  12:16 AM    <DIR>          start

During a subsequent attempt at installing 0.5, I followed the 'set executable on fun_plug' instructions via ftp (Note to Windows users:  you can't do this if you just drag and drop the files into Volume_1...you have to command-line FTP the files onto your DNS and then issue 'quote site chmod 777 fun_plug' from within windows ftp)...and got a little more success but still can't telnet.  Appears the script executed.  The tar file is gone.  An ffp folder exists now, and here are the contents of ffp.log:

**** fun_plug script for DNS-323 (2008-08-11 tp@fonz.de) ****
Sat Jul 25 21:24:30 BST 2009
ln -snf /mnt/HD_a2/ffp /ffp
* Installing /mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.tgz ...
tar: inflate error 2
/ffp/etc/rc: Not found or not executable

All suggestions welcome...

Ah, I had the same problem; how to delete without telnet access? Simple.

Edit the fun_plug file and add the command(s) to delete whatever you want.

Example:

<snippet>

mkdir -p ${FUNPLUGDIR} ${LOGDIR}
echo "**** fun_plug script for DNS-323 (2007.04.03 tp@fonz.de) ****" >>${LOGFILE}
date >>${LOGFILE}
rm -fr /mnt/HD_a2/fun_plug.d_old    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  add this line somewhere outside the if statements
if [ -r "${FUNPLUGTAR}" ]; then
    echo "* Extracting ${FUNPLUGTAR}..." >>${LOGFILE}
    /bin/tar -xv -f ${FUNPLUGTAR} -C ${FUNPLUGDIR} 1>>${LOGFILE} 2>&1
    echo "* Deleting ${FUNPLUGTAR}..." >>${LOGFILE}
    rm -f ${FUNPLUGTAR}
fi

<snippet>

Make sure that the editor you use terminates lines with a LF (oa)  and NOT CRLF (odoa).

Just be careful what you delete.

Cheers.