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Software => Shareport - macOS => Topic started by: summerstormpictures on May 25, 2009, 04:31:20 PM
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What ''horrors'' am I risking by using this beta. Your warning is so scary that it even makes beta testing a frightening prospect. What catastrophes have been reported and what successes--and how did they avoid catastrophe?
Inquiring minds want to know...
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Personally, I see no differences whatsoever between 1.01 and 1.10 beta... *sigh* they wasted my time again...
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Well, I ''went for it'' and downloaded it. None of the installers work. Not only that but they still haven't included a very simple text file ''how to install'' but rather make you trawl down into two folders. You'd think it would be intuitive but the two folders seem to be almost identical...
...but none of that matters anyway since none of the potential installers works--rather just fails out.
Please include a ''read me'' of some sort--especially with betas like this. Something tells me I am fortunate that none of the installers worked. I may have avoided disaster.
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I've got the 655 as well and cannot get either the 1.01 or the 1.10 to work. I've tried un-install and re-install many times, router reboots, using different drives/printers for the usb port on the router etc...
I have also tried using 10-4 and 10-2 to no avail. I constant get a connect and the automatic disconnect. I am the only one using the router and system. I am running 10.5.7 OSX on a Macbook with an open firewall.
Any help D-Link? It seems that your product has failed us mac owners.
HW 655 Ver A3
FW 1.31 NA
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Hi Folks,
Got the new 1.10 beta last night and replaced the totally non-working (for me at least) 1.0.
After a few misfires (error connecting / disconnecting) while trying to connect to my Seagate Freeagent 500GB drive, I hit paydirt! But only briefly; it showed up in Finder and I could read the contents of the drive (mostly FLAC files), but after 60 seconds, it disconnected though this time without error. I was able to reconnect without error, and read the drive again, but after 60 seconds, another disconnect.
Now, I can connect to the drive via Shareport Utility, but it will not show up in Finder. After a few automatic disconnects as described below, I get "a network error has occurred" which remains for less than 1 minute before the drive becomes "available" again.
FWIW, I'm using Macbook 13" Core2Duo with OS10.5.7. FW is 1.31NA
Thanks for the new beta, and though I still can't report solid operation, I appreciate the work and some apparent progress. Let me know if I can do anything to provide more helpful feedback.
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UPDATE:
I stepped away from my desk for 30 minutes for a meeting, came back, and the drive was appropriately mounted in Finder.
I am able to play music from the drive as if it were attached. Performance isn't ideal - I get frequent short dropouts, but I suppose that is due more to the transmission speed variations over the WiFi. The wireless is shared between about 7 of us in the office.
I'll report more as I am able.
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MASCO, which files did you run to install the program? I'd like to get a step by step on what you did to get it working...
As for me, I'm running MBP 2.4 Ghz OSX 10.5.7 and hackintosh Dell 10.5.6, Hardware version 4, Firmware 1.31. I click on the cosetup file and nothing happens. My aim with this shareport is to plug in a 5-drive Raid USB 2.0 unit as my media server, but if this thing continues to fail, I might just opt to get on of those NAS devices instead.
What gets me is that the installer files are named "SharePortUtility_10_2" and "SharePortUtility_10_4" with file modification dates going back to Oct 31, 2008! My guess is that these are for WAY OLDER versions of OSX and the D-Link tech support folks should include a WORKING and up-to-date version of "SharePortUtility_10_5". In fact there aren't any files included with the 1.10 beta download that's newer than February 13th, so they're really not paying much attention to us Mac users!
UPDATE:
I stepped away from my desk for 30 minutes for a meeting, came back, and the drive was appropriately mounted in Finder.
I am able to play music from the drive as if it were attached. Performance isn't ideal - I get frequent short dropouts, but I suppose that is due more to the transmission speed variations over the WiFi. The wireless is shared between about 7 of us in the office.
I'll report more as I am able.
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Ok, I installed file 10_4 and it worked. However, I'm not able to get anything to mount in Finder even though the shareport utlity says I'm connected. I also find it odd that every time i connect or disconnect I get an error message saying that it failed even though the utility says otherwise. I'm so confused!
Also, DLINK if you're listening, can you figure out a way so that multiple users can use connected devices simultaneously??? That would be so much better!
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Hi Samjlee,
I ran the 10_4 pkg which installed successfully since as you found, Cosetup crashes.
I left for my meeting defeated because Shareport Util said I was connected, but there was no indication of that in Finder. But, after doing nothing beyond that (besides wasting my time in a meeting), I came back to find that it was indeed showing up in finder and easily accessible.
Songbird would not let me access it as a music library (presumably due to it's massive size), but I could open files album at a time (roughly 200-300 MB flac files) in VLC and play them. Note that I did experience glitchy playback, but due to the fact that my small office shares the wireless from this router, I am guessing that it was a bandwidth issue, not a Shareport issue.
As I write this, Shareport is not able to connect without giving an error message, a ghost of the HD is stuck in Finder, I cannot eject it, I cannot Force Quit VLC, nor can I force restart Finder. So as soon as I click "post" I'm gonna hard reboot and see if I can duplicate anything positive and hopeful that I achieved today regarding shareport :)
FWIW, an NAS is by nature a far more reliable and flexible device for media sharing and storage, and would be my default solution. I am pursuing this for my media storage because (A) it's a nice feature to have on a router I like well enough to have bought regardless of it's USB port, and (B) it's a very handy way for me to have access at no additional cost of an NAS to my music library when I'm working at a location in the building other than my desk.
I think that D-link probably does consider it to be important to support Mac users, but given the tremendous devotion of resources to finish the project, maybe it's hard to make it a top priority. As a guy who has a zillion "top priority" projects in motion at any one time, I can't fault them too much. Someone who bought the router (perhaps you?) specifically for this feature is more than entitled to feel differently.
Let's keep our hopes up! I think we'll be pleased with it in the end. I'll check in tomorrow and report more results.
-M
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Oh! One last note!
I DID change the name of the drive in Shareport to something more sensible like SEAGATE rather than the bizarre default. It showed up in finder after I had done so, but not before. I don't know if there is a direct correlation or not.
D-link - Would a drive mount as it had been titled in Shareport or as the volume had been named when originally formatted? I can test this, but I named it in Shareport just like I named the volume in Disk Utility.
-M
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Hello,
Digging a bit deeper, I again found that though shareport appears to connect, it "times out" after 60 seconds and disconnects. I wonder if my HD is spinning down and disconnecting before Finder realizes it's there.
I tested this by editing properties of the drive in shareport thinking that doing so might act as a "keepalive" or something and give Finder time to mount it. It partially worked. After I closed the properties, Shareport automatically disconnected the drive and I got a finder error saying I unplugged a drive without ejecting it first.
Then the drive was stuck in finder and not addressable. I could not reconnect via shareport without an error, and Finder hung. I cannot force restart finder or do anything else with it now. "massstorage" process was unresponsive according to activity monitor. I could force quit the massstorage process, but still could not do anything with finder.
I'll try later with a thumb drive. Off now to reboot.
-M
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Yeah i does sound like the Seagate drive is going to sleep. I have a Seagate freeagent as well and when the drive is connected directly to my laptop and there is no activity the drive goes to sleep. When I try to wake the drive it does take a while for it to notice.
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I'm gonna poke around seagate's website and see if there is firmware or any kind of control panel for these drives that disables sleep mode. I find also that it will spin down when connected to my macbook after a brief no-use period. FWIW, it's not the 60 seconds or so I notice with the router.
I'm gonna try the thumb drive tomorrow AM and see if I get lucky. Thanks for the feedback.
M
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Let us know if you find any utility that can change the sleep pattern of the drive... I also use a seagate drive and hope this might fix our problems
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Okay, so this is interesting: Somehow by the aligning of the planets, the discovery of Elvis, Bigfoot and the discovery of Jimmy Hoffa's and Doctor Livingston's bodies...
SharePort works on the MacBook Pro via the DIR-655 wireless router.
However, no matter how ''deeply'' I uninstall and reinstall it on the old Power Mac G5--no go. It won't stay connected or temporarily connect to print--just won't work--not at all.
My guess is that it's related to the obvious--the OS itself.
Any ideas?
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I am running 10.5.7 and it has never worked for me....
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NEVER MIND--sheesh. I should have not said a thing--now it fails to connect/print on the MacBook Pro.
I guess I'm beginning to wonder what the heck the point is to release even a beta that seems not to work at all on either the Mac or Windows platform. I have it installed on an Intel/Mac, a PowerPC/Mac and a Dell/Intel.
None work.
I have a suggestion for the folks at D-Link:
Find 100 monkeys and put them to work programming on 100 machines and I hazard a guess that they'll come up with something that works sooner--either that or ''Hamlet.''
Yes, I am instigating but sheesh already. How hard can it really be to come up with at least one consistently working bit of software/firmware?
Done ranting.
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Well... no don't be that harsh. I bought a linksys/cisco router before this one and that was a piece of CRAP. This router actually works and is MUCH faster. I still have nothing but kind words about this D-Link product because it works like advertised. I can do without the sharepoint but it would be nice to get it working eventually...
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Well... no don't be that harsh. I bought a linksys/cisco router before this one and that was a piece of ****. This router actually works and is MUCH faster. I still have nothing but kind words about this D-Link product because it works like advertised. I can do without the sharepoint but it would be nice to get it working eventually...
I don't think most people have a problem with this router - I personally really like it, but then again I am for the moment staying solidly with 1.21EU after all the horror tales I have seen with people updating to 1.31, and suffering from various quirks they never had with, it seems, EXACTLY the same set-up with 1.21 or 1.22.
I would love to attach a hard drive to this router so I could access data when I am on the road via MobileMe, and I would risk the update for that, but why risk it when the very app. that D-Link have brought out to do just that does not seem to work. So I believe this is where the frustration is, not with the router itself.
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I don't think most people have a problem with this router - I personally really like it, but then again I am for the moment staying solidly with 1.21EU after all the horror tales I have seen with people updating to 1.31, and suffering from various quirks they never had with, it seems, EXACTLY the same set-up with 1.21 or 1.22.
I would love to attach a hard drive to this router so I could access data when I am on the road via MobileMe, and I would risk the update for that, but why risk it when the very app. that D-Link have brought out to do just that does not seem to work. So I believe this is where the frustration is, not with the router itself.
Right... The windose sharepoint works great but they are just having a problem developing their software for use with mac. I hope they iron out their bugs eventually, o & btw... does mobileme have a monthly fee?
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www.mobileme.com
yes
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We released Beta firmware for the DIR-655 which fixes the Shareport issues.
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5841.0
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We released Beta firmware for the DIR-655 which fixes the Shareport issues.
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5841.0
I did not miss that fact, as this whole thread is people trying the new Beta, - I am very pleased that D-Link is working to fix this problem, but it is still Beta, people on this thread are having issues with it, and as my MacBook pro & Router are the core of the communication side of my business, I cannot risk the 1.31 upgrade & Shareport until the latter is full release & stable.
But, again, it is greatly appreciated that D-Link are working to fix this problem for us Mac-users; like many, I want reasonably -priced alternatives to the expensive Apple offerings!
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Where can I d/l the Shareport 1.10 beta? I can't find it on the site.
thanks,
Steve
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Where can I d/l the Shareport 1.10 beta? I can't find it on the site.
thanks,
Steve
The link is in the first Sticky Topic http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=5617.0
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I was testing Mac Shareport with the latest DIR655 Router firmware (1.32NA beta) and Shareport Utility 1.10 beta. With that said I installed the Shareport Utility 1.10 using the 10_4 PKG and nothing else. Then rebooted the computer. I had no problem mounting or unmounted my OT4 harddrive. I set it up with two partitions. One HFS+ and the other was FAT32 and then I tried NTFS. Shareport works with any of these. Mounting and unmounted is not a problem any more with the latest router firmware. I did have firmware 1.30 and tried Shareport Utility 1.01 and 1.10 with no luck. The key seems to be the new beta firmware 1.32NA beta.
NOW THE BAD NEWS......
I used 4.5GB file to test copying transfer rates. Test (1) transfer from OT4 harddrive to desktop PC (windowsXP sp3 TBase100 LAN) speeds were 20min for a file that size. Good USB2 speeds. Test (2) transfer from OT4 harddrive to desktop Mac (OSx 10.5.7 wireless N) I tried five times and failed five times. I would be going a long fine then file transfer would just stop. At that point your in trouble. You can't quit Shareport or the copying in progress. Your frozen. The finder won't relaunch, you just get the spinning beach ball of death. I waited for hours to see if the transfer would start moving again, no luck. The only thing you can do is hold the power button down for a HARD SHUT DOWN. Start your MAC again AND RESTART THE ROUTER to get Shareport to work again. If you have a PC and a PC partition on the drive. (PC won't mount HFS+ unless you have Macdrive7) You can make Shareport work again by mounting and unmounted the drive twice on the PC. (First time doesn't work) This seems to work as good as restarting the router. Test (3) changed computers to MacBook laptop (OSX 10.5.6 Wireless N) Same problem, copy so far anywhere from 200 megs to 2 gigs then your dead. TEST (4) same Macbook this time wired to TBase1000 LAN. same problem.
CONCLUTIONS....
Shareport for the PC works great. Shareport for the Mac has come a long way in the last couple of months, but still not stable enough to be usable.
DLINK keep up the good work! This is starting to show promise. I look forward to you next beta, and a stable Shareport for MAC ;D
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UPDATE: GOOD NEWS!!!!! ;D
I was looking to find an updated sxuptp.kext from Silex Technology to see if that would help. I downloaded the SX Virtual Link Utility for USB device connection for Mac OSX Ver. 3.1.0 The cosetup installer works perfectly. The SX Virtual Link application sees my DLINK DIR655 USB harddrive. I mounted the drive and started copying some files from my Mac desktop and my Macbook. I have had no transfer errors. The same file that took 20 minutes on a wired LAN on my PC took a 35 minutes on my wireless N Mac. This is working good! Heres the link to the download. http://www.silexeurope.com/en/home/support/productgroups/common-downloads/device-server-and-virtual-link.html (http://www.silexeurope.com/en/home/support/productgroups/common-downloads/device-server-and-virtual-link.html)
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THANK YOU!
The above link for SX Virtual Link's software worked PERFECTLY. FIRST TIME! I'm connected to a Raid level 1 Silicon Image external USB enclosure w/ two 1-gig drives and it is streaming a movie effortlessly over my WIFI -- DIR-628, firmware 1.20NA.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU... that software now makes this D-Link router fully usable for the intended purpose on a Mac.
And while I appreciate the development time and hurdles put into D-Link's version, that SX software has got it right and it works instantly after 1 reboot with no dropouts.
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More Testing: My Desktop Mac seems to work fine, but my Macbook is more touchy. If it drops its connection or someone (my boy) puts it to sleep while you are copying files you are in trouble. It will say you still connected, but It has gotten lost and wont let you even disconnect. Back to holding power button down for hard shutdown and reseting the router. If Dlink can get this to work with TimeMachine backup over wireless (Test it to work with drop outs) then we have arrived.
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I can't get it to work. I sure hope the developers keep working on this.
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where is the beta firmware? links don't work. stickies are gone. somebody has gone through this forum and made it useless, almost as useless as shareport for mac
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I am new to the Macbook and to SharePort. I have the latest versions (1.32NA and 1.10). I am able to mount a Seagate Free Agent drive. I would like to share it amongst both MAC and PC's. Can this be accomplished? I have not reformatted the drive for OSX. I can see the drive but cannot write to it.
Is there a setting somewhere to give me R/W access to it?
Thanks in advance.
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I'm using the latest updates (1.32NA and 1.10). I can connect and print with my PC. With the Mac, Shareport can see the printer but will not connect. Shareport says the printer is available, but simply won't connect. The Mac is OS 10.5.8. Thanks!
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I'm using the latest updates (1.32NA and 1.10). I can connect and print with my PC using Windows Vista. With the Mac, Shareport can see the printer and can connect it. When i try to print it looks like all the process is ok but never print anything. The Mac is OS 10.5.8.
I try to use SX Virtual Link, it works better but when i try to print it's the same thing, nothing happend.
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Here's a link to where you can find the Utility to disable sleep mode on the Seagate drives. It's in the middle of the page.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207851