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[rangerruss]

Hello everyone....thinking of buying a 323...

had a bad experience with Seagate GoFlex Home 21tn NAS ( cannot mount on linux debian) so I want to avoid another fiasco.....

I need to be able to permanently mount the 323 with one drive for now....it must be mountable in winXP, Vista and debian linux.

Is this possible...

[tedfroop]

Totally possible.  The device runs on linux.   Mounting can be done via your fstab file very easily.

[D-Link Multimedia]

Are you referring to removing the disk and mounting it in these systems or mounting over the LAN through the NAS? Just want to clarify that.

[rangerruss]

thanks for your quick reply.....glad to know that i will be able to mount in debian....


as for removing the disk, no...i want to use it as a Network attached device for file and program storage

[Wiggs]

You will have no problem mounting the NAS in Linux.  I have mine mounted permanently in on my XP machine and my SuSe machine all over LAN.


Regards,


Wiggs 

[rangerruss]

well i bought a 323 and two seagate 2tb drives.....work well my network using XP, Vista, printer server works as well......however, although I have no problem sendong and receiving files from my debian box, I cannot get the printer server to function from the debian box.....

I have Samba and Cups on the debian box and tried using cups to printer to the 323 server...does not work.....I have used CUps in the past for network printing so I know that is possible.(IPP and HTTP).
I have ports 80,443,21,22 and 631 forwarded.....puzzled...

[rangerruss]

well, i guess that the 323 is not linux compatible for using the printer server....

[fordem]

I have Samba and Cups on the debian box and tried using cups to printer to the 323 server...does not work.....I have used CUps in the past for network printing so I know that is possible.(IPP and HTTP).
I have ports 80,443,21,22 and 631 forwarded.....puzzled...

Why would you forward any ports at all?

Presumably you are referring to forwarding these ports in your router, and you are forwarding them to the ip address of the DNS-323.  If that is correct, all you have achieved is creating a security hole in your defences through which the DNS-323 can be attacked.

Internal LAN communications do NOT actually pass through the router and will not be affected by the router's configuration - port forwarding is needed ONLY when access from outside the LAN is required.

[fordem]

well, i guess that the 323 is not linux compatible for using the printer server....

Not being much of a "linux user" and never having needed to print from a linux system through the DNS-323's print server, I'm not in a position to tell you how to make it happen - BUT - I have used the print server to print from Windows systems, and in theory, printing to it from a linux system, should be no more complex that configuring the linux system to print to a Windows' print queue.

Your earlier post says ...

I cannot get the printer server to function from the debian box.....

I have Samba and Cups on the debian box and tried using cups to printer to the 323 server...does not work.....I have used CUps in the past for network printing so I know that is possible.(IPP and HTTP).
I have ports 80,443,21,22 and 631 forwarded.....puzzled...

IPP is internet printing protocol, which as far as I know is not supported on the DNS-323, http is hyper text transfer protocol - used to retrieve data from a web server - and I don't think it plays any part in sending a print job between the client and the print server.

I think you need to be focussing on SMB/CIFS.

In a very simplistic way - the print server is sitting there, witing for a print job and listening, but it only understands Windows, you must find a way for your debian system to talk to it, as if it were a Windows system.

[rangerruss]

Why would you forward any ports at all?

Presumably you are referring to forwarding these ports in your router, and you are forwarding them to the ip address of the DNS-323.  If that is correct, all you have achieved is creating a security hole in your defences through which the DNS-323 can be attacked.

Internal LAN communications do NOT actually pass through the router and will not be affected by the router's configuration - port forwarding is needed ONLY when access from outside the LAN is required.

good point.....i thought these would be necessary for printing as well as file mounting and reading;

[fordem]

They are NOT required for file mounting and reading - not unless the client is outside of the LAN, and if that is the case, you're missing a few.

You do NOT need to forward ports on the router for communication across the local network - you don't even need a router.

[rangerruss]

They are NOT required for file mounting and reading - not unless the client is outside of the LAN, and if that is the case, you're missing a few.

You do NOT need to forward ports on the router for communication across the local network - you don't even need a router.

I don't need access from outside the lan...l do do need to be able to print using the USB port on the 323..

[rangerruss]

well, i guess I am going to return the 323. Spoke with D)LInk tech type and was told that the USB port only works with shareport which is windows only.  However, I can operate it without the shareport which didn't work for me.....He said they dint support Linux and that I should call Linux for a solution.... .

this is all bull......if it works without shareport on windows it should be capable of the same under Linux .

I had a 714UP routers with a printer server that worked perfectly in Linux. 

[fordem]

Within specific limitations - both you and the tech type are correct - and in fact the answer you get may depend on the question you ask, how it's worded, and how it's interpreted.

If what you want to do is share the USB port (as a USB port) across the network, it can only be done using Shareport - however - when the DNS-323 debuted, it (and by the way, that was a number of years before Shareport), it offered, not a shared USB port, but a USB print server, and USB support for UPS systems (Uninterruptible Power Supply) was subsequently added.

I have used the USB port as a print server, without Shareport, and also used it with Shareport.

[rangerruss]

Within specific limitations - both you and the tech type are correct - and in fact the answer you get may depend on the question you ask, how it's worded, and how it's interpreted.

If what you want to do is share the USB port (as a USB port) across the network, it can only be done using Shareport - however - when the DNS-323 debuted, it (and by the way, that was a number of years before Shareport), it offered, not a shared USB port, but a USB print server, and USB support for UPS systems (Uninterruptible Power Supply) was subsequently added.

I have used the USB port as a print server, without Shareport, and also used it with Shareport.

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yes....all i want to do is to be able to use the USB for printing under linux.......no shareport...just as i dont use shareport when printing  from windows both on the networkl