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[goddessweb]

Wireless printing from laptop, , unless you are suggesting a wireless usb hub. Cheapest one I've found is 4 or 5 ports for $60.

Geez, bad move there if you bought the dir-655 JUST for the usb port. :S maybe a simple usb hub for a fraction of the cost would have been a better move.

[Fatman]

Wireless printing from laptop, , unless you are suggesting a wireless usb hub. Cheapest one I've found is 4 or 5 ports for $60.

I just have a desktop that is going to be on regardless dedicated to the role of print and file server.  It serves my needs at no additional cost.  It also doesn't put overhead on my router.  It plays friendly regardless of OS and is a torrent master, webserver, and workstation besides.

[HazardX]

I'm a mac user also.

My DIR-655 works great, for raw speed, and windows machines seem to have no problems with it anymore.

However, any of my linux/mac boxes that use multicast to talk to each other using mdns (including my printers) have intermittent complete and total lookup failure for no reason I can coherently track down. Other than to determine that the DIR-655 itself is the problem (by swapping its predecessor back into the network as the gateway).

I do like the speed, but going along all fast is great, until one machine on the network experiences the mdns lookup failure that then seems to spread like cancer to all the others. Then they all fail to be able to lookup .local domains for an hour or so. Very frustrating.

I don't actually use USB, wireless or securespot at all, just the wired switch and WAN port.

[goddessweb]

I just have a desktop that is going to be on regardless dedicated to the role of print and file server.  It serves my needs at no additional cost.  It also doesn't put overhead on my router.  It plays friendly regardless of OS and is a torrent master, webserver, and workstation besides.

No additional cost except for the power consumption and noise. I can hear the fan in my desktop in the next room when it is on. I forgot what silence was until I got a laptop and turned off the desktop. I don't play online games so overhead isn't really an issue, except maybe for VOIP.

The router has a USB port which should work with my system. It does not work, and that fact was not clearly advertised or stated at D-Link or MacConnection where it was purchased. I should not have to work around that. D-Link should provide the software to make the USB port work, at least with a printer. Clearly it was designed to appear to function like the Apple Extreme Base Station with USB port, but it is a fraud.

I hope D-Link resolves this easily correctible issue before they get hit with another class action suit. Seems they didn't learn much from the last one.

[goddessweb]

Is the DP-301U Print Server Mac-compatible? Where can I find the list of printers it supports?
Literature says it is configured with a web-based utility, or for Windows, an optional PS Admin utility that is included.

This is an Ethernet-to-USB print server. It is older than the DIR-655. If it can be configured via a web browser, why can't the same be done for the USB port on the DIR-655?

[Fatman]

We are talking about 2 completely different devices which bear no relation other than the fact that they both have a USB port and an Ethernet port.

The DP-301U is a print server, it's dedicated job is printer sharing via LPR.

The DIR-655 is a router which has a 3rd party utility to allow it to share a USB port over a network interface using a closed and proprietary protocol.

Do you see how those two are completely different?

I am done on this thread, enjoy your router.

[goddessweb]

Is the DP-301U Print Server Mac-compatible? Where can I find the list of printers it supports?

This question remains unanswered.

[Lycan]

It's a print relay device. It has nothing to do with the device being Mac compatible, it has EVERYTHING to do with the Mac drivers for the printer in question supporting post script printing and network printing.
A lot of times a CUPS version driver is needed.

That being said you'd need a windows machine to configure it.
Not to mention when this device was released D-Link was a Windows company, while we listed Mac compatibility it wasn't as focused on.

[thisbe]

I registered specifically so I could post regarding the lack of Shareport Utility for Mac issue.  We searched long and hard for the right router for our mixed OS network and are very happy with the DIR-655, but now that we are adding a USB drive to the network I'm pretty upset that we can't use it with our Macs.  Please - we bought this router because everything else about it IS compatible with Macs; with the recent surge in popularity of the Mac OS I'm really surprised that you haven't addressed this issue yet.  We will get it set up so at least we can use it with the pee cees, but I really need that functionality with my Mac (and I'm the family sysadmin.)

-Diane

[Lycan]

the latest version of firmware for the 655 is suppose to have Mac+Shareport compatibility. Once I get the  ok, the code will be posted for beta release.

[goddessweb]

Hooray and thank you! I look forward to checking out the 1.30 release of Shareport!

[Masco]

Cheers! I'm very excited about the new upcoming Mac Compatible FW release! Thanks TONS to the D-Link team for making this a priority.
-Gary

[Henk55]

All the Mac users rising up and make one big wave!
I'm also a Mac user and my concern is, that the future beta release 1.30 in the EU is a way behind, because they only make final releases available.
Sure I'll could try (every) US beta version but the warranty issue worries me, in case of an hardware failure.

[summerstormpictures]

So I found the Sharepoint for Mac but heck if I know how to install it. I've never seen anything like this before after it is unzipped. No manual or other instructions either.

http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=530&sec=1#firmware

[sandman]

All the Mac users rising up and make one big wave!
I'm also a Mac user and my concern is, that the future beta release 1.30 in the EU is a way behind, because they only make final releases available.
Sure I'll could try (every) US beta version but the warranty issue worries me, in case of an hardware failure.

Hi there,
I have the same concern as Henk 55 - I would like to move our Home/office away from seperate backup hard drives for each computer, and to keep my 655 and use it with a single back up hard drive would be perfect, but how long will we have to wait for the EU version?