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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-321 => Topic started by: czhower on December 28, 2008, 06:59:50 AM
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Is everyone seeing this same "feature" as I am? I'm running latest firmware.
Share Names
Shares cannot be named and will be assigned the same name as the last folder in the path. When multiple shares are created on a single path it will name the second one -1, third -2 etc. Normally this should not be needed, but the 321's scheme of permissions is brain dead and they only effective way to allow multiple users to access a single share is to share it multiple times. Then each user must know which one is theirs, -3 etc.
Sharing with Users
Each share can only be assigned to one user or group. If you want to use a share with multiple users you must share it multiple times or use a group. Unfortunately using a group is not an option either because of use more D-Link stupidity.
One Group Per User
Of all the idiot inspired features of this device, this is by far the worst. Users can only belong to a single group. If you add a user to a second group, it removes them from the other group they were previously in. This when combined with the other problems make permission control on this device nearly useless
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Yes, that is just do baaaad >:(.
I have also managed to f.ck up my user management somehow.
Now when I want to add or remove a user from a group in the iexplore window, the page just crashes (DNS) with a message in IE that
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage ???
What i did was:
user/groups - Advanced
Created a group called "All"
Thought that I could add all user (that also belongs to other groups like admin) to this group so i pressed "all accounts" - "Add".
When I saw that all users in Administrators were gone (since i also added them to the new group "all" i tried to remove them from "all" and the CRASH.
No way to recover unless ure a linux guru i guess.
Any ideas....dlink?
I do not dare restart the dns-323 since it seems like i still can access admin shares with my admin users but i have to clean up the mess and add fix it but i cant.
Sigh...and the -1 -2 -3 folders drives me crazy.
It means that I have to add all the folders to media portal since i might be logged in as different user depedning on what i did before. And in media portal that means that i have double copies of all songs and movies.
Thhis REALLY MUST BE FIXED.
Regards
Boogieman
ps
also when you type a long message in the post reply box you can only see the bottom row you are typing here in the forum just when you press the key - so fix the forum while you are at it ;)
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