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[WantToFindOut]

Hi,

just want to know if the DNS 320 works with Mountain Lion, especially Time Machine and as a fileserver. Thanks.

[gabrieljsmith1]

I am using it with mountain lion but it seems to connect sometimes and then drop and hard to reconnect

[square-eyes]

The answer is no ..... steer clear is my advice.   I've been trying with Lion and more recently Mountain Lion (and I probably started to get it to work way back with Snow Leopard!)

I purchased one 12-18 months ago and have never had any success with reliability of time machine on the DNS320. Sure on the box it says 'Mac compatible', works with Time Machine ..... but once again it is a weak claim by manufacturers / poorly supported. Their geeks may have got it to work in the labs but in the wild it is a different story and support is none existent other than users trying to help each other.

As a NAS it will work for file storage and it is reasonably quick and is certainly usable. I have my home videos on there that i call up in itunes. I can then through appleTV view the movies from the NAS with only a small amount of buffering. This hasn't been problem free. I've owned it over a year now and it NEVER worked properly. It was only a recent release of another beta firmware (bloody hobby to D-Link!) that made it usable with streaming larger files.

Time machine is a different matter on the DNS320 and why i'm really disgruntled with my purchase. I knew I should have not been so tight and should have gone for a Time Capsule instead. Paying a premium for a not quite perfect Apple product would have saved me hours of hassle and wouldn't have left me without a reliable backup system for over 12-18 months.

I've been through several versions of beta firmware and each time i get my hopes up. In the past couple of weeks I installed their latest firmware in the hope TM would work. In it went then I fired up TM ...... up goes 300Gb+ of data overnight and all looks well. The next day I see TM kick start on my Mac and it is uploading data ..... feeling good about it. The following day it does the same and I start to relax. The next day, BANG ..... a new error message!

Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on “dlink-Fxxxxx”. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.


I looked at software alternatives to TM such as Carbon Copy Cloner but they all seem cumbersome compared to the slickness of TM.

So I'm still sat here with no reliable back up due to a poor product. Save yourself the hassle too and look somewhere else. Good luck!
 
P.S. I don't consider it acceptable to have to follow instructions from people that fully understand this stuff to make it work. It makes it unusable for the average user and not reliable when something goes wrong .... like a manufacturer does an update. If D-Link says it works, then it should just work out the box. http://www.shadowandy.net/2011/08/time-machine-on-lion-with-dns-320.htm

[skrap]

Agreed, it's totally broken on Mountain Lion, even with the 2.03 firmware.  Stay away!

[Dalsvzla]

Im using with 10.8.2 any not seeimg any trouble... AFP works well.

Im starting to do a Time machine backup with two differents DNS-320 and works well... ill waot to finish it to give a clear results.. just need sometimes because the backup will be 400GB aprox.

[Creo]

TM works well after 10.8.2 update.

[MattBW]

I am not convinced its d-link, its apple changing things to cut off the competition. This happened when I upgraded to Lion, my timemachine stopped working because apple changed the way it communicates whch broke TM for most NAS. Then D-link fixed it, and I got TM back...

I didn't learn my lesson, I went and upgraded to Mountain Lion without checking here, and surprise I can not longer backup again.

I know its easy to blame D-link and yup they aren't very rapid to resolve, but lets not forget its apple that changed things, not d-link.

[cruisinto]

Im using with 10.8.2 any not seeimg any trouble... AFP works well.

Dalsvzla,
             I have been using AFP successful for some time but just ran into a few issues copying large files over to the RAID after a rebuild. One thing that i am fighting with is the fact that AFP will not allow me to sign in as a registered user and only a guest and I am finding that I have to reconnect to server every hour or so with the command afp://192.168.2.122 in finders connect to server. Are you experiencing the same issues?

Also tried to configure a NFS mount but had no success although was able to use the same server connect in finder using the string nfs://192.168.2.139/mnt/HD/HD_a2 but the data flow was to slow to even open a file directory.

Do you or anyone else have any ideas about connections to macs.

Running: Mountain lion
Just want to auto map it and use it as a network drive.

[priitv8]

Running: Mountain lion
Just want to auto map it and use it as a network drive.

I have no idea if the firmware of 320 is that much different from 325, but I am doing exactly what you intend to (i use my 325 as a iTunes media storage) and so far have experienced no problems.
The drives of DNS can even go to sleep - Mac still doesn't loose the AFP connection.
The only thing I've done to enhance DNS's sharing for Mac is that I added a AFP service record to it's Avahi config. But that only makes it more Mac-like to discover and connect, nothing else.

[phoxy84]

I am unable to afp connect to my volume_1, it keeps trying to connect. SMB works well but sonce my Time Machine backup is connected with AFP, it doesn't work .

It workt perfectly before

[uberrider]

Hello!

Just purchased an 2011 iMac and upgraded to Mountain Lion. It seems to work with my DNS320 so far. I'm able to connect and access the content. Also leaving those dreaded .DS_Store files everywhere
I didn't use the NAS as TM though. Strictly as simple raid 1 storage.

[FurryNutz]

You can try this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629

Hello!

Just purchased an 2011 iMac and upgraded to Mountain Lion. It seems to work with my DNS320 so far. I'm able to connect and access the content. Also leaving those dreaded .DS_Store files everywhere
I didn't use the NAS as TM though. Strictly as simple raid 1 storage.