Comments on: Hacking the D-Link DNS-321 NAS

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By: Marc Wagoner

Marc Wagoner — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:24:57 +0000

I have been using my NAS box as storage for a home based business so that my other home based employees can exchange files. It works very well, but has a few quirks. The Box will not let internet access users move files from one directory to another. Is there a revision to my set up that needs to be made to allow this?

By: 1994MGoBlue

1994MGoBlue — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:42:08 +0000

I’m having a ball hacking my DNS-321! The fun_plug makes it so simple to get a root telnet prompt (which I immediately used to activate SSH and disable telnet). DH’s link to ALTERNATIVE INSTRUCTIONS I found easier to follow. From there I followed the instructions on http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.5/ to rsync about 100 packages of familiar Linux tools and installed them all.

By: Janos Marki

Janos Marki — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:43:51 +0000

Now read through the comments, too… Guys, those transfer speed are about 3-4 times higher than those of the WD MBWE-II. So definitely a big plus! Cheers and see ya!

By: Janos Marki

Janos Marki — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:40:35 +0000

As described in your intro, the best p2p-app for such a device is Transmission. I have it on my WD MBWE-II (which is very similar to your system, 2 disk NAS, Linux-hackable, however, the CPU is very weak), and it runs OK if you configure it well.

As for the box, unfortunately, the data transfer rates (read-write) never go above 4 MBps (which is a bit annoying, considering that that does not even reach the 100 Mbps (~12 MBps) speed, and they brag about the Gigabyte ethernet adapter installed in it – what for, I don’t know, when the CPU can only cope with transfer speed that are a third of even a shabby 100 Mbps adapter… So I am thinking of changing at some point – how fast is this box?

By: Schoon

Schoon — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:02:46 +0000

Steve M, in doing research on this unit I read that the drive has to be completely fresh in order for the 321 to recognize it. I’m not sure if this is your problem but wanted to mention it. Hopefully you’ve already figured this out though based on the date of your post. I’m guessing a fresh drive would require a low level format only which I don’t even know how to do anymore these days in the windows world.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:57:47 +0000

I have had a DNS 321 for some time now and have had a WD 1TB drive in it working as network storage on ethernet and it has worked very well and reliably. Recently I wanted to double it’s memory and add an additional 1TB Hitachi drive to the second bay, but the device won’t recognize it. It flashes the drive light and spins the drive but will not access or list the drive as present. This drive is almost new and was working fine in one of my Windows XP professional running computers. Can anyone give me some ideas as to how to get the device to recognize and format this drive?

By: Jack Stuard

Jack Stuard — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:03:27 +0000

I would like to know more information about developing to DNS 321, like if possible using Java.

My idea: To build a jDownload application, for web. This way rapidshare, megaupload and a lot of others sharing web sites will be able to be downloaded by DNS 321

By: James Atkins

James Atkins — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:08:45 +0000

Thanks for the information. XBMC is the best media player..Ever!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:12:13 +0000

Hey is there a way to set the DNS-321 up to operate just like when you’re on the network? I want to be able to double click a video file and play it without downloading it over the internet when i’m traveling.