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[arctic10]

How well does the DNS-323 work with a mac os 10.6.  I plan on connecting this to my cisco router.  Are there issues with the Time Machine, data transfer?  How difficult is the set up?
Thanks for the help

[Erik Deridder]

Hi,

I have the same setup as you do. A DNS323 with mac osx 10.6.

First of all, i actually works quite well. I only use it trough wifi anf i have about 3 to 4 MB/s. With firmware 1.08/1.09, you have by default bonjour. But it doesnt work quite well. There used to be an add on package for the DNS that has been removed from the dlink site but i think i still have it on the dns. So by just installing it trough the webgui, you have a much better bonjour support

Secondly, out of the box, the dns is not timemachine aware and unsupported. But again there is a solution for it. I use the dns as a timemachine target for about 3 years now.

I have written this in a step by step doc on how to enable this. Basically you need to make a local sparsebundle of the capacity you would like to have that timemachine can use. Copy that over to the dns, make a special user with acces and , done :-)


Again, it's a nice product for osx , shares trough smb, afp, timemachine etc with very little intervention for enabling all of this.

Give me a day and i will send you the bonjour package and the step by step guide for timemachine

[arctic10]

ok great thanks for the help

[arctic10]

I am going to purchase the 321 I assume the setup is the same

[Erik Deridder]

I am not so familiar with the DNS 321, but from what i see, the things that needs to be done in order to get the DNS323 to work with timemachine, or not hardware based. Its just a matter of creating the correct file in OSX and set up a user with RW grants to a shared folder. So my geuss is that it will perfectly work on the DNS321 as well as for other NAS.

The only thing that probably won't work , is the bonjour package for the DNS323. I have no idea what will happen if you install this on a DNS321

[arctic10]

ok thanks, i would love to get the step by step to get it to back up with time machine, that would be a big help  357mag@mail.com.