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Title: Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?
Post by: kwmama on January 04, 2011, 07:06:34 AM

Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?  What do I do?

Title: Re: Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?
Post by: Clayton on January 04, 2011, 11:54:35 AM

download and install the driver from here
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Multimedia/dns323/Drivers/dns323_driver_PNPX_102.zip

Title: Re: Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?
Post by: fordem on January 04, 2011, 03:21:26 PM

I'd rather just ignore that message - Windows does not need a driver to access the storage and there's no advantage to loading it - and - early versions of the driver created problems.

Your choice.

Title: Re: Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?
Post by: Clayton on January 05, 2011, 12:35:07 AM

It did create BSOD's with Vista but installing it now works fine and installs it's own shortcut in My Computer, well on Windows 7 x86 and x64 that is!!
The driver was designed to be included in the network map of Vista and 7, why I don't know!!!
If you want to ignore it just goto Networks, right click on DNS-323 and uninstall then it should not prompt to install driver and/or show up in device manager with !

Title: Re: Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?
Post by: jamieburchell on January 05, 2011, 09:27:42 AM

I've never been prompted to install a driver for it. Under what condition does that happen?

Title: Re: Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?
Post by: Clayton on January 05, 2011, 10:55:51 AM

When you double click on the DNS-323 icon in the network area, it starts of the driver installation process, under Vista and 7

Title: Re: Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?
Post by: jamieburchell on January 05, 2011, 02:59:26 PM

Not for me it doesn't. I wouldn't mind betting it only does if the UPnP server is enabled on the NAS. This will add another icon to the network window.

Title: Re: Windows report - DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is missing a driver?
Post by: Clayton on January 06, 2011, 12:04:12 PM

I'd say you are right there...