Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
On Feb 1, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Steve R wrote: The PC was able to mount the NAS without any problem (once my neighbour mapped to the right drives) but I still had a problem here. Slept on it for a while, and then my eye caught that Finder's Command-k assumes afp:// -- Duh! Once I changed that to smb:// I can connect without any problem. /me idiot. /you in good company We've all done this sort of thing before. Glad it's working now. -- Bruce Johnson U of Az College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions don't have opinions, merely customs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
At 6:50 AM -0700 1/30/09, Bruce Johnson posted: On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Steve R wrote: I've been at this most of the day and into the night, resetting several times, reformatting twice and although I can get into the D-Link interface same as yesterday, I still can't get the drive to mount to create shared folders. It came up in Finder and each time I clicked on it, it disappeared again. I'm going to resort to having my PC friend use the Easy Find Application on his computer to set up sharing, and hope I don't have to install Windows to maintain the drive. It's a nice enclosure, quiet as a mouse, with pretty blue lights so I'm willing to live with a little formatting problem ;-) I'm willing to bet your friend will have problems, too, because I think it's defective. Return it for a replacement. The PC was able to mount the NAS without any problem (once my neighbour mapped to the right drives) but I still had a problem here. Slept on it for a while, and then my eye caught that Finder's Command-k assumes afp:// -- Duh! Once I changed that to smb:// I can connect without any problem. /me idiot. Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Steve R wrote: I've been at this most of the day and into the night, resetting several times, reformatting twice and although I can get into the D-Link interface same as yesterday, I still can't get the drive to mount to create shared folders. It came up in Finder and each time I clicked on it, it disappeared again. I'm going to resort to having my PC friend use the Easy Find Application on his computer to set up sharing, and hope I don't have to install Windows to maintain the drive. It's a nice enclosure, quiet as a mouse, with pretty blue lights so I'm willing to live with a little formatting problem ;-) I'm willing to bet your friend will have problems, too, because I think it's defective. Return it for a replacement. -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are B. Banzai, PhD --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Ximeta Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
On Jan 28, 2009, at 5:28 PM, starrf...@valley.net wrote: But I couldn't get anywhere with the docs. I read somewhere that the setup had to happen on Explorer and no other browser and that was true, No it isn't. I set it up using Safari. No problems at all. but I couldn't get the settings right. Very strange. So I gave it to our I.T guru and we'll see what she can do with it. Maybe she can check with you if she needs help. Sure have her email me if she has problems. -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are B. Banzai, PhD --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
At 4:26 PM -0700 1/28/09, Bruce Johnson posted: I just got a VOX NM1 enclosure only, from Geeks.com for $24, another $70 for a 500G drive and I had a NAS system up and running pretty quickly. http://www.voxproducts.com/mn1.php Geeks doesn't seem to have it anymore. It's strictly a SMB file server, but I've been able to connect multiple macs to it simultaneously. Documentation is full of the usual Chinese-to-English through the 'Fish stragenesses, but they give equal weight to both Macs and PC's, wonder of wonders. It doesn't always show up in the network browser, for some reason, not sure where the problem lies, but since I gave it a fixed address on my cable router, I can mount the volume, drag it to start-up items in accounts and it comes right up. Bruce, since you worked with a Chinese manual ;-) Things were going along well last night, I was able to access via Finder/Server having set a few users/Group, then I lost connection and wasn't able to connect from that point onwards. One of the first things I had already done was given it a fixed IP, and the router continues to see it's there. I'm pretty sure it's because I hadn't had a chance to map the drive (if that's necessary with OS X) so I went searching for a trial/free solution to run their Windows-based software to finish the installation, which dragged into the night. So back to restart both computer and NAS but still I can't seem to access via smb or see the drive at all. Everything offered by websites is based on seeing the drive to get it to mount. Any thoughts? Find a PC friend to finish the installation? Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Steve R wrote: At 4:26 PM -0700 1/28/09, Bruce Johnson posted: I just got a VOX NM1 enclosure only, from Geeks.com for $24, another $70 for a 500G drive and I had a NAS system up and running pretty quickly. http://www.voxproducts.com/mn1.php Geeks doesn't seem to have it anymore. It's strictly a SMB file server, but I've been able to connect multiple macs to it simultaneously. Documentation is full of the usual Chinese-to-English through the 'Fish stragenesses, but they give equal weight to both Macs and PC's, wonder of wonders. It doesn't always show up in the network browser, for some reason, not sure where the problem lies, but since I gave it a fixed address on my cable router, I can mount the volume, drag it to start-up items in accounts and it comes right up. Bruce, since you worked with a Chinese manual ;-) Things were going along well last night, I was able to access via Finder/Server having set a few users/Group, then I lost connection and wasn't able to connect from that point onwards. Are you using the DLink one? I don't know...mine was accessible via a web browser, and once I figured out the rather sparse interface (see all that time spent on the puzzles in Myst did pay off!) it was pretty straight forward. I had to format the drive, then create a shared folder on it. This appears to the Mac (using a smb:// mount in finder) as a network volume. IN the web interface I had the ability to add passwords and user names, etc, no need to in my case. The DLink looks like it has a web-based setup, too. What happens when you point your web browser at the IP address you've given it? In my case when I first plugged mine in, I had to get to the interface for my wireless router, which is providing DHCP for my home LAN to find connected devices. The Vox is named(by default) something like Store- where is the last four bytes of the MAC address which is printed on the sticker on the bottom according to the manual. Fortunately, I know what's on my network, because the sticker wasn't there!) Once I identified the device on the router, I went to that address in my web browser, and set a fixed IP address in the interface on the VOX (see your router documentation to see how this is done. On my Netgear router, you enter each device with an IP somewhere in the devices address range, in others, Linksys I know for sure, there is a range of addresses reserved for fixed IP addresses, and you have to keep track of them.) Then as I said, I formatted the drive, created a shared folder, and that was all I needed to make it visible on the Mac; I didn't add any user mapping stuff. What I would do is reset it to the factory defaults. On the Vox, there's a pinhole through which you press a switch to reset stuff or a button in the web setup screens, The DLink web interface has a setting there to reset all. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
At 9:39 AM -0700 1/29/09, Bruce Johnson posted: On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Steve R wrote: At 4:26 PM -0700 1/28/09, Bruce Johnson posted: I just got a VOX NM1 enclosure only, from Geeks.com for $24, another $70 for a 500G drive and I had a NAS system up and running pretty quickly. http://www.voxproducts.com/mn1.php Geeks doesn't seem to have it anymore. It's strictly a SMB file server, but I've been able to connect multiple macs to it simultaneously. Documentation is full of the usual Chinese-to-English through the 'Fish stragenesses, but they give equal weight to both Macs and PC's, wonder of wonders. It doesn't always show up in the network browser, for some reason, not sure where the problem lies, but since I gave it a fixed address on my cable router, I can mount the volume, drag it to start-up items in accounts and it comes right up. Bruce, since you worked with a Chinese manual ;-) Things were going along well last night, I was able to access via Finder/Server having set a few users/Group, then I lost connection and wasn't able to connect from that point onwards. Are you using the DLink one? I don't know...mine was accessible via a web browser, and once I figured out the rather sparse interface (see all that time spent on the puzzles in Myst did pay off!) it was pretty straight forward. I had to format the drive, then create a shared folder on it. This appears to the Mac (using a smb:// mount in finder) as a network volume. IN the web interface I had the ability to add passwords and user names, etc, no need to in my case. The DLink looks like it has a web-based setup, too. What happens when you point your web browser at the IP address you've given it? In my case when I first plugged mine in, I had to get to the interface for my wireless router, which is providing DHCP for my home LAN to find connected devices. The Vox is named(by default) something like Store- where is the last four bytes of the MAC address which is printed on the sticker on the bottom according to the manual. Fortunately, I know what's on my network, because the sticker wasn't there!) Once I identified the device on the router, I went to that address in my web browser, and set a fixed IP address in the interface on the VOX (see your router documentation to see how this is done. On my Netgear router, you enter each device with an IP somewhere in the devices address range, in others, Linksys I know for sure, there is a range of addresses reserved for fixed IP addresses, and you have to keep track of them.) Then as I said, I formatted the drive, created a shared folder, and that was all I needed to make it visible on the Mac; I didn't add any user mapping stuff. What I would do is reset it to the factory defaults. On the Vox, there's a pinhole through which you press a switch to reset stuff or a button in the web setup screens, The DLink web interface has a setting there to reset all. I've been at this most of the day and into the night, resetting several times, reformatting twice and although I can get into the D-Link interface same as yesterday, I still can't get the drive to mount to create shared folders. It came up in Finder and each time I clicked on it, it disappeared again. I'm going to resort to having my PC friend use the Easy Find Application on his computer to set up sharing, and hope I don't have to install Windows to maintain the drive. It's a nice enclosure, quiet as a mouse, with pretty blue lights so I'm willing to live with a little formatting problem ;-) Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
My D-Link DNS-323 NAS Dual drive enclosure arrived today, and I'm busily going over the information I'd already read prior to ordering the unit. However, I thought I'd ask here if anyone already has set up this unit for OS X Leopard and if they have any tips/cautions that I should be aware of before starting? I plan on using it as two separate drives with iTunes server, BitTorrent, storage and possibly playing with the Fun plug-in everyone is raving about on the forums. Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
On Jan 28, 3:10 pm, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: My D-Link DNS-323 NAS Dual drive enclosure arrived today, and I'm busily going over the information I'd already read prior to ordering the unit. However, I thought I'd ask here if anyone already has set up this unit for OS X Leopard and if they have any tips/cautions that I should be aware of before starting? I plan on using it as two separate drives with iTunes server, BitTorrent, storage and possibly playing with the Fun plug-in everyone is raving about on the forums. Steve R Steve, I don't have experience with this box but I did just install a Ximeta Netdisk drive enclosure which is usb and ethernet. I have an older Airport extreme which connects to my MacBook and a G4 tower. The airport and G4 are connected to the airport via ethernet through a switcher. The Netdisk enclosure is PATA, not SATA, T100 not gigabit, has usb2 connectivity as well as ethernet. It only cost me only about $30 so the older drive type and slower connectivity is less of a problem than if I had spent big bucks. (Actually only the switcher and G4 can handle gigabit...the Airport can't, so the MacBook doesn't either.) One big advantage of this little drive is that it works fine with Mac formatted drives as long as there are no PCs looking at it. I think NAS is really interesting so I thought I'd reply to your message with my experience. I'm interested in how yours works out. I have about 50,000 photos on the drive and it is ok for iPhoto on the MacBook through the Airport, just a little slow. I expect to add an iTunes library soon. The T100 system is fast enough to support that. The big problem for me is that the drive appears on either the MacBook or the G4 but not both. The software isn't suppposed to allow read/ write access on any but one computer on the network. All others should be set up as read only, which is a disadvantage in itself. But the other computer won't even display the drive. I have a support question in to Ximeta but haven't heard anything yet. Anyone with experience with this kind of system? Comments? Please feel free to open another thread. Rich --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Ximeta Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
At 1:17 PM -0800 1/28/09, starrf...@valley.net posted: Steve, I don't have experience with this box but I did just install a Ximeta Netdisk drive enclosure which is usb and ethernet. I have an older Airport extreme which connects to my MacBook and a G4 tower. The airport and G4 are connected to the airport via ethernet through a switcher. The Netdisk enclosure is PATA, not SATA, T100 not gigabit, has usb2 connectivity as well as ethernet. It only cost me only about $30 so the older drive type and slower connectivity is less of a problem than if I had spent big bucks. (Actually only the switcher and G4 can handle gigabit...the Airport can't, so the MacBook doesn't either.) One big advantage of this little drive is that it works fine with Mac formatted drives as long as there are no PCs looking at it. I think NAS is really interesting so I thought I'd reply to your message with my experience. I'm interested in how yours works out. I have about 50,000 photos on the drive and it is ok for iPhoto on the MacBook through the Airport, just a little slow. I expect to add an iTunes library soon. The T100 system is fast enough to support that. The big problem for me is that the drive appears on either the MacBook or the G4 but not both. The software isn't suppposed to allow read/ write access on any but one computer on the network. All others should be set up as read only, which is a disadvantage in itself. But the other computer won't even display the drive. I have a support question in to Ximeta but haven't heard anything yet. Anyone with experience with this kind of system? Comments? Please feel free to open another thread. I have a Ximeta 320GB drive that I'm using right now as NAS. Have you downloaded the most recent NAS Utility 1.8.1/Leopard for it? It used to be, when I first got it, that it has to be formatted FAT-32 for NAS and it would only mount on one Mac at a time (and could be mounted on Windows while mounted on the one Mac) but this most recent Utility allows it to be formatted Mac, and mounted on more than one Mac at a time. The read/write on one Mac only still applies. I regularly mount read/write on one Mac and read on the other. I've also had a third iBook mounted read only. Don't forget the order -- computer on, NAS on, NAS Utility on the read/write computer to mount, then the NAS Utility on the read computer to mount. To unmount the drive, it has to be Ejected first and then Unmounted through the NAS Utility on each computer. Support/Downloads/MacOS http://www.ximeta.com/web/ Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Ximeta Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Steve R wrote: I have a Ximeta 320GB drive that I'm using right now as NAS. Have you downloaded the most recent NAS Utility 1.8.1/Leopard for it? It used to be, when I first got it, that it has to be formatted FAT-32 for NAS and it would only mount on one Mac at a time (and could be mounted on Windows while mounted on the one Mac) but this most recent Utility allows it to be formatted Mac, and mounted on more than one Mac at a time. I just got a VOX NM1 enclosure only, from Geeks.com for $24, another $70 for a 500G drive and I had a NAS system up and running pretty quickly. http://www.voxproducts.com/mn1.php Geeks doesn't seem to have it anymore. It's strictly a SMB file server, but I've been able to connect multiple macs to it simultaneously. Documentation is full of the usual Chinese-to-English through the 'Fish stragenesses, but they give equal weight to both Macs and PC's, wonder of wonders. It doesn't always show up in the network browser, for some reason, not sure where the problem lies, but since I gave it a fixed address on my cable router, I can mount the volume, drag it to start-up items in accounts and it comes right up. This is, however based on less than a week of usage... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Ximeta Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
I have a Ximeta 320GB drive that I'm using right now as NAS. Have you downloaded the most recent NAS Utility 1.8.1/Leopard for it? It used to be, when I first got it, that it has to be formatted FAT-32 for NAS and it would only mount on one Mac at a time (and could be mounted on Windows while mounted on the one Mac) but this most recent Utility allows it to be formatted Mac, and mounted on more than one Mac at a time. The read/write on one Mac only still applies. I regularly mount read/write on one Mac and read on the other. I've also had a third iBook mounted read only. Don't forget the order -- computer on, NAS on, NAS Utility on the read/write computer to mount, then the NAS Utility on the read computer to mount. To unmount the drive, it has to be Ejected first and then Unmounted through the NAS Utility on each computer. Support/Downloads/MacOS http://www.ximeta.com/web/ Steve R Yes, I have the latest software. I think what you describe works here but it is very tedious. What I like about the drive is that it just appears on the MacBook when I open it. Simple and easy. So it really works for me and if I need it on the G4 I can just go USB since it lives on the same desk. I just hope they find a way to make it RW for everything on the network. We'll see what they say if/when they respond to my inquiry. Thanks, Rich --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Ximeta Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
Bruce wrote: I just got a VOX NM1 enclosure only, from Geeks.com for $24, another $70 for a 500G drive and I had a NAS system up and running pretty quickly. http://www.voxproducts.com/mn1.php Geeks doesn't seem to have it anymore. It's strictly a SMB file server, but I've been able to connect multiple macs to it simultaneously. Documentation is full of the usual Chinese-to-English through the 'Fish stragenesses, but they give equal weight to both Macs and PC's, wonder of wonders. It doesn't always show up in the network browser, for some reason, not sure where the problem lies, but since I gave it a fixed address on my cable router, I can mount the volume, drag it to start-up items in accounts and it comes right up. This is, however based on less than a week of usage... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs You are a brave man Bruce. I bought that drive after trying the Ximeta hoping it would be a little better. The price was great even if you just used usb and firewire. It promises being able to add another drive to the network via usb and to function as a printer server. Great for $30. But I couldn't get anywhere with the docs. I read somewhere that the setup had to happen on Explorer and no other browser and that was true, but I couldn't get the settings right. Very strange. So I gave it to our I.T guru and we'll see what she can do with it. Maybe she can check with you if she needs help. Rich --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Ximeta Re: D-Link DNS-323 -- any users?
At 4:24 PM -0800 1/28/09, starrf...@valley.net posted: I have a Ximeta 320GB drive that I'm using right now as NAS. Have you downloaded the most recent NAS Utility 1.8.1/Leopard for it? It used to be, when I first got it, that it has to be formatted FAT-32 for NAS and it would only mount on one Mac at a time (and could be mounted on Windows while mounted on the one Mac) but this most recent Utility allows it to be formatted Mac, and mounted on more than one Mac at a time. The read/write on one Mac only still applies. I regularly mount read/write on one Mac and read on the other. I've also had a third iBook mounted read only. Don't forget the order -- computer on, NAS on, NAS Utility on the read/write computer to mount, then the NAS Utility on the read computer to mount. To unmount the drive, it has to be Ejected first and then Unmounted through the NAS Utility on each computer. Support/Downloads/MacOS http://www.ximeta.com/web/ Steve R Yes, I have the latest software. I think what you describe works here but it is very tedious. What I like about the drive is that it just appears on the MacBook when I open it. Simple and easy. So it really works for me and if I need it on the G4 I can just go USB since it lives on the same desk. I just hope they find a way to make it RW for everything on the network. We'll see what they say if/when they respond to my inquiry. Assuming you can network between computers on the LAN, I'm wondering if maybe a script could be written that would change the read/write on A computer when you are wanting read/write on B computer? I'm not a scripter, never tried Automator and I'm wondering if the app that Bruce posted earlier this week (and another lister's BF wrote for WoW use) could be used to put a GUI to the script? Steve R -- Reopen NAFTA. Reclaim our sovereignty. http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature8.cfm?REF=333 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
