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[jnemeth]

Able to see USB device connected to the 323 and can read from the device. However, when writing to it Shareport disconnects after writing the filename. Won't reconnect until the 323 is reset, then the same thing happens. Any ideas? Please?

[juno]

I am experiencing the exact same thing.  I am trying to copy over an external USB Harddrive to my 323 and shareport fails every time causing me to have to restart the NAS.  If anyone out there has a fix or knows what is going on please let us know.

[vishnumrao]

Same problem here! I can see the USB drive and can see the contents. The connection is lost about a minute later. I have to power cycle the NAS to be able to connect to the USB drive again.

OS: Windows XP SP3
Connection: Wirelessg and wired connection (tested on both)
Shareport Utility ver: 3.0.0 R1 (SXUPTP Driver: 3.3.8.0)

[tfiveash]

The DNS-323 does not support an external USB drive. I think that you can do it through ffp.

Terry

[vishnumrao]

The DNS-323 does not support an external USB drive. I think that you can do it through ffp.

Terry

The DNS-323 definitely does support USB hard drives & USB flash drives, through the SharePort addon for DNS-323. From the SharePort Utility, i.e. desktop utility I can see , read&write to USB drives formatted in NTFS, FAT32, FAT 16. (I don't know about EXT3 & EXT2 though. But I can check). The only problem is that it disconnects very frequently and I need to reboot the NAS to be able to connect to the USB drive again.

[kdcarver]

Any update on this issue?

Aside: why is it necessary to have a "client" on the remote machine to access the USB port on the DNS-323? What prevents installing software on the 323 that presents the port as an attached Volume similar to the internal drives?

[gunrunnerjohn]

I wonder what's the point of having a USB drive connected to the DNS-323 so you can access it at a snail's pace, rather than having it connected locally where you can access it at full speed. 

[fordem]

Any update on this issue?

Aside: why is it necessary to have a "client" on the remote machine to access the USB port on the DNS-323? What prevents installing software on the 323 that presents the port as an attached Volume similar to the internal drives?

Shareport does not exist to allow a USB drive to be shared - it exists to allow a USB port to be shared - like any other "sharing" this requires a server process (which runs on the system with the resource to be shared) to make the share available, and a client process (which runs on the system that will use the shared resource) to access the server process.

Shareport may be used with USB drives, but can also be used with other USB devices - scanners, cameras, printers, etc.

Many people do not realise that ALL sharing requires this client/server approach because the functionality for the most common shares (disks & printers) is built into today's operating systems, and is now taken for granted, but this was not always so.