Move Over DNS-323: D-Link DNS-321 Reviewed

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Aside from two minor omissions, D-Link's new, less expensive dual-drive NAS has what it takes to replace D-Link's top-selling BYOD NAS.

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I think USB ports are really important on a nas :

- I m agree to say

that print servers thrown into routers and NASes are a crapshoot

but if you have a simple usb printer to share in your home lan, do you have to switch on your pc all the time to share it ?

- It can be very useful to add/expand storage to your nas connecting an usb drive to it. You can also separate critical data (stored in raid one) and non critical (usb storage)

- Some of the nas support apc protection (by the official firmware or community), but no chance here to support it one day.

I have tried 2 Dlink DNS 321 units and they both exhibit the same probelm. When you try and give a user permissions to the share and reboot the box, ALL share permissions are removed. All other settings on the 321 remain intact. Dlink level 2 support said they have heard of this before but this is really a glaring error that makes it unusable for me. I am also using a supported hard drive.

I figured the problem out on my own. The DNS loses all its permissions if you only have 1 drive installed. Now that i added another and established a RAID 1 set, it works fine. Hope they fix this bug soon!

Try using an alternative firmware to fix the settings issue.

The loss of share permissions is not related to the number of hard drives. I have two drives (standard formatting) and I also lose my permissions on reboot (and any backup schedules I created). Tech support told me to try JBOD formatting.
Why they can't retain settings with standard formatting is a mystery, and it sure gives me a low opinion of D-Link.

Hello,
Recently, I got a DNS-321. I could not see it on my Vista after enabling UPnP on DNS-321.
Any special settings required to see my NAS drive in windows vista? can I use windows media player to stream movie/songs from my NAS?

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Originally Posted by MAK4MAX

Hello,
Recently, I got a DNS-321. I could not see it on my Vista after enabling UPnP on DNS-321.
Any special settings required to see my NAS drive in windows vista? can I use windows media player to stream movie/songs from my NAS?

Try this thread.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The loss of share permissions is not related to the number of hard drives. I have two drives (standard formatting) and I also lose my permissions on reboot (and any backup schedules I created). Tech support told me to try JBOD formatting.
Why they can't retain settings with standard formatting is a mystery, and it sure gives me a low opinion of D-Link.

where can one find alternate firmware? I know about router f/w for both linksys and d-link, but i haven't found any for this.

Yes google is my friend, however if anyone knows of any real links to custom f/w please post!

thanks!

D-Link currently is not offering any firmware updates (as I'm sure you've discovered), and I wouldn't expect any from them soon. Tech support says that this is not a popular device and that's why they have so little troubleshooting info available for it. To me that translates to "don't expect a firmware revision anytime soon"