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[mohora]

hello
i just got a dns-320 as a christmas gift. i'm a mac user and have everything working except time machine.

i've followed all of the instructions in the web based manager to enable time machine, choose a volume and enable afp but it doesn't work. no available drive displays in time machine even thought the volume is mounted. i'm starting to get frustrated with this and am thinking about returning it to get a synology unit.

any help would be great.

[dkarim]

mohora, I am a Mac user also and I got very frustrated with my DNS when I first got it. I honestly thought the DNS was no good but I am now convinced that there is a difference with how Macs treat network drives and it's very possible that you may be as disappointed with another NAS if you change it. The best advice I can give you is to install the fun_plug from the beginning. It's not very difficult, you just need to copy a couple of files to your Volume_1, just google it. The reason I suggest you do this is because I had my DNS working with my Mac's time machine but then it messed up by itself. I think it had to do with permissions. I then noticed I had some folder which I could not delete. It does appear that the Leopard operating system doesn't create folders with liberal permissions (777 if you are familiar with Unix, which means Read/write/execute permissions for everyone). I believe this is what was causing Time Machine to fail for me, I know have it working. The Fun_plug allows you to log in using Telnet to the DNS and change the permissions to 777 for the Time Machine sparsebundle.

[mohora]

hey dkarim thanks for the reply.
i'll give it a go. fingers crossed.