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I just got myself the DNS-320 with a single 2TB Samsung F4 hdd. The hdd was aligned to 4K and everything works fine except when browsing the SMB shares in Finder.
To be specific, Finder will often freeze up randomly when browsing the sub directories. You can see the spinning animation on the lower right hand corner of the Finder window that goes on forever. I've tried this on my iMac, Mac Mini, Macbook and Macbook Pro all running 10.6.6 and the problem happens on every single one of them. There is no problem browsing from the CLI, nor from a Windows machine or even from my network media player. If I turn on AFP and mount the shares as AFP then browsing is also fine. Console logs nor dmesg shows anything wrong.
I've also upgraded to the 2.00 beta firmware and problem still persists. Same thing when I upgraded to the Samba from funplug. Strange enough I don't have such problems browsing SMB shares on 2 other NAS boxes (one of which is a DNS-323).
I find it hard to believe I'm the only person having this problem and it is wearing me down. Does anybody have a clue what's going on?
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I'm just using AFP to avoid it, waiting for a real update to fix it..
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I believe this is a problem with AFP with current firmware (even 2.0 beta), I have read it in many fora from Apple users.
A temporary solution I have found for stability and transfer speed is using NFS, it actually works well
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Thanks ckarv for confirming. Strange that it doesn't affect the DNS-323
vaggoul do you mean it's a problem with SMB shares instead of AFP? AFP works fine for me
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AFP doesn't work as it should with firmware 2.0b with my iMac nor SMB shares, whenever I try to use finder to browse folders in the NAS it freezes and I also see the animation icon as you do
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Looking into it. I believe that AFP may have some stability issues so we will need to investigate it further for a possible fix.
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With version 1.0 of the firmware SMB or AFP did not work at all. NFS work as it should.
With version 2.0b of the firmware SMB still does not work but AFP does work for me now. However it did not work until I turn on both Time Machine and AFP. It is best to just turn on Time Machine as this will turn both at the same time. Its still buggy I think but better than nothing.
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For those having AFP issues as well, please help Dlink by listing your OSX version.
I just find it strange that the DNS-323, an earlier product, has a SAMBA that works fine with OSX but not the DNS-320. Unfortunately, I have to hold off recommending this NAS to technically-challenged friends on the Mac platform until DLink fixes SAMBA
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I use Snow Leopard Mac OSX (10.6.6) with DNS-320 and have problems with SMB and AFP shares
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We have tested Samba pretty thoroughly and I have failed to see connection issues over SMB on Mac OS X 10.6. If you are having issues please list your setups, exact version of OSX and any steps to replicate.
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Dlink,
My setup is 10.6.6 on iMac (2008), Mac Mini (2009), Macbook (2009) and Macbook Pro (2009).
The problem I have is with Finder freezing up when I try to browse the Samba share on a DNS-320. It happens quite consistently when I go 1 or 2 levels down from the main directory. Finder just freezes up (spinning animation at bottom right corner of Finder window) trying to display the contents of the directory. There is no relevance to the number of items in the directory because I usually have 2-3 files only per directory. I have to recover by killing Finder.
I have no problem browsing the Samba share via CLI so I believe this is just confined to Finder. Console doesn't throw up any errors either. AFP works fine for me.
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I'm using 10.6.6 as well.
Issues access via Samba and as above it hangs in finder when I try and access it and also unable to view contents of the folders. On a Macbook Pro. AFP started working when I upgraded to Version 2.
There is a 3 page thread on the DNS323 DLink forum as well.
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Hi everyone,
why didn't I read your comments before. I bought just today the NS-320 and I have experienced now the same problems like everyone else here in the forum. Since 6 hours I try to get the device running-sadly with no success. I have tried it with MacPro (Model 2010), MacBook Pro (Model 2011), Mac Mini (Model 2009), Mac Mini (Aluminium Model 2011) and each of them with OS 10.6.6
I am only able to read the files and folders, but I cannot store any data on the device, not with finder nor with FTP client. If I start on vmware a windows instance, it works fine.
I am trying to get my hands on the Firmware 2.0, but on swiss FTP Servers I cannot find any. Access to earlier mentioned FTP servers abroad, I cannot establish.
Can someone please help with some advise, otherwise I might as well throw the device off the alpes and change to a other provider.
Many thanks in advance...
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try downloadding it from the french d-link pages
In the OS X 10.6.7 update there is a SMB fix. for me it works much better with SMB only now.
Is it working for someone else now?
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jansenmg why don't you try to mount it using AFP?
You need to enable AFP first in the DNS-320 menu. From Finder, hit Command+K for the "Connect to server" dialog and enter the server address in the following format "afp://user:password@ip_address_of_DNS-320"
jansenmg wrote:
Hi everyone,
why didn't I read your comments before. I bought just today the NS-320 and I have experienced now the same problems like everyone else here in the forum. Since 6 hours I try to get the device running-sadly with no success. I have tried it with MacPro (Model 2010), MacBook Pro (Model 2011), Mac Mini (Model 2009), Mac Mini (Aluminium Model 2011) and each of them with OS 10.6.6
I am only able to read the files and folders, but I cannot store any data on the device, not with finder nor with FTP client. If I start on vmware a windows instance, it works fine.
I am trying to get my hands on the Firmware 2.0, but on swiss FTP Servers I cannot find any. Access to earlier mentioned FTP servers abroad, I cannot establish.
Can someone please help with some advise, otherwise I might as well throw the device off the alpes and change to a other provider.
Many thanks in advance...
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