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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-327L => Topic started by: craigg on May 23, 2014, 06:17:08 AM
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i trust subject matter covers my question. I want to plug the 327L straight into my android smart box to play media. can it be done?
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I don't know the features of your "android smart box".
Do you plan to simply connect your DNS-327L to it like an USB stick? So that it will be recognized as a mass storage device?
This won't work for (at least) 2 reasons:
1.) You can't physically connect them with a simple USB extension cable. You would need a cable with 2 male ends which is not standard.
2.) You can't logically connect them. In the USB world, you always need 1 server-style device at one end and (at least) 1 client-style USB-device (e.g. stick) at the other. Just as you also can't simply connect 2 self-contained systems (computers, NAS, tablet etc.) via USB. To circumvent this restrictions for connections of 2 PCs, there are special cables to do this (e.g. here (http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Connecting-Two-PCs-Using-a-USB-USB-Cable/248)). But I think this won't work for your NAS (or not as you intend)
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yup thats what i wanted to do :(
I don't know the features of your "android smart box".
Do you plan to simply connect your DNS-327L to it like an USB stick? So that it will be recognized as a mass storage device?
This won't work for (at least) 2 reasons:
1.) You can't physically connect them with a simple USB extension cable. You would need a cable with 2 male ends which is not standard.
2.) You can't logically connect them. In the USB world, you always need 1 server-style device at one end and (at least) 1 client-style USB-device (e.g. stick) at the other. Just as you also can't simply connect 2 self-contained systems (computers, NAS, tablet etc.) via USB. To circumvent this restrictions for connections of 2 PCs, there are special cables to do this (e.g. here (http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Connecting-Two-PCs-Using-a-USB-USB-Cable/248)). But I think this won't work for your NAS (or not as you intend)
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yup thats what i wanted to do :(
But if it's android there should be options to use some App to connect to the DLNA server in your DNS-327L.
So just use its audio/videostreaming capabilities as it is possible from devices like Smart TVs, BluRay players etc...
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But if it's android there should be options to use some App to connect to the DLNA server in your DNS-327L.
So just use its audio/videostreaming capabilities as it is possible from devices like Smart TVs, BluRay players etc...
yes i have been doing some reading and that sorta clicked after awhile. i hope your right. cheers.