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[summerstormpictures]

One thing I've noticed with this Shareport for Mac ''beta'' (I guess that's what we're calling it now) is that it ''seems'' to work in theory but practically it doesn't.

I connected a flash drive to the USB--and Shareport ''saw'' it but where the heck is it in Finder? How does one utilize it? The drive is formatted in FAT for compatibility.

I also had problems printing to my HP DeskJet 932C. Again it ''saw'' the printer but did not print. This, however, I chalk up to the ''asynchronous'' issue since the specs indicate ''IEEE 1284-Centronics parallel compatible; Universal Serial Bus.''

By the way, if you're enlightened enough on how to install this--knowing which package installer to use since there's no ''read me'' of any sort--the ''Help'' menu once you have it installed is fairly ''helpful.'' However, if I were the D-Link developers, I'd just simply include this as a separate HTML or text file along with the ZIP file--and add some instructions on how to install.

ALSO: Are there any plans to allow Shareport (any platform) to facilitate a USB Bluetooth device? I have this RocketFish USB Bluetooth ''nub'' that works great on my desktop Mac. This after-market device is far cheaper than the spec Apple Bluetooth card. It would be nice to see this workable on the DIR-655 as well.

[Fatman]

I hate to ask the simplest questions but when it "saw" your drive and printer did you see it as status connected?

The default configuration is to auto connect to every device (which I turned off immediately as I disagree with that as a default action).  However if it did not connect for some reason (say multiple devices all trying to auto connect at once and all but 1 fail) I could see you ending up not being the connected host.

Once I connected I had storage devices populate to the finder just fine.  I did not personally test a printer but it should have shown in your printer list to pick a driver for it.

[summerstormpictures]

I hate to ask the simplest questions but when it "saw" your drive and printer did you see it as status connected?

The default configuration is to auto connect to every device (which I turned off immediately as I disagree with that as a default action).  However if it did not connect for some reason (say multiple devices all trying to auto connect at once and all but 1 fail) I could see you ending up not being the connected host.

Once I connected I had storage devices populate to the finder just fine.  I did not personally test a printer but it should have shown in your printer list to pick a driver for it.

Pretty sure it's the asynchronous communication thing per the specs on the printer. It was the only USB device connected.

I did the flash drive separately. One would think it would show up in the Finder--but it didn't. I don't know what that was about. It would connect and show connected in the SharePort Utility but I didn't/don't know how to access it.

I had also changed the settings in the SharePort Utility window to set it to not automatically connect USB devices. I then set the printer/device itself (by Command-clicking) it so that it would connect to print only.

Again, in theory it probably would have worked if the parallel communication thing had not been an issue.

[guitren]

New mac & D-Link user here (but have a good record track win Win & Unix systems).

Since I want to use the USB shareport functionality of the router, I installed the Beta firmware last night. No problems for any Wi-Fi related stuff. The shareport utility is working fin Win my WinPC machine, I can see the rinter and the HardDrive when they are connected to the router.

However, the Mac is another story. Let start by saying that I'm running Leopard (OS X 10.5.6) on a MacBook.

I could not find a way to open a port on the Mac firewall to allow traffic from/to the shareport utility. So I disabled the firewall. Once the firewall is down, I can see the router on the shareport utility, but every time I want to connect (the HD or the printer) I have an error message saying that Shareport could not connect it.

So I connected the HD and printer directly to the mac to make sure they are OK with the mac, everything is perfect! Put them back onto the USB port of the router... no avail, same error. So I think there are still some work to do on the Shareport utility for Mac.

I'm wondering if I miss something...

Is anyone here successfully connected something from their mac machine using the shareport utility?

[Fatman]

new Macbook (5,1) running 10.5.6, it installed fine and I connected fine.

I was wirelessly associated (shipping internal adapter) to a DIR-655 running 1.30.  I tested a USB Mass Storage Device (thumbdrive) which populated to my finder just fine.  I don't have a printer on my desk so I didn't test it with a printer.

The Mac firewall defaults to off and if fairly rigid in it's configuration, if it is down there should be nothing standing in your way.

Do I need to see about creating a well screenshoted or perhaps even video output log of the process from install to association?  I can't guarantee it will be an instant process to gather, but if it is necessary, it can be accomplished.

[guitren]

Hey fatMan! thnaks for the response!

At least now I know it works for someone. Can yo tell us which files you ran to install the Shareport utility for the Mac (once the zip file is expanded, which one you picked to proceed with the install?).

A step by step guide (video! WOW) would be quite useful for many mac users, I'm sure. Since I was able to do it on my PC and you confirmed that the Mac Shareport utility work, I'm now wondering if I did install the right piece of software...

Thanks

[Fatman]

ShareportUtility/ShareportUtility/ShareportUtility_10_4.mpkg is the ticket.

[guitren]

Alright, I believe it's the one I used, but anyhow, I re-installed it and for some reason now I can connect (so it does work). However, I'm having some connection timeout/disconnect/freeze problems. For now I will blame the beta phase of Shareport. Hopefully things will get more robust in the final release.

[Fatman]

Good to hear we are all starting to arrive on solid ground.

[Grampa Deane]

I've been having connection issues since I installed the Mac Shareport Utility but after installing mpkg 10.4, it was mostly resolved.
Now I can connect to printer (and print) and external HD (backs up no problem) but once the print job is completed, it doesn't disconnect as per the preference settings but my 2 WinXP's  and Win Vista machines disconnect after printing.
Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro 2.16 Intel Duo core, 2GB Ram, Mac OS 10.4.11, Samsung ML-1210 Laser printer

[summerstormpictures]

Interesting. I have two systems: I have a Power Mac G5 (PowerPC line) 1.8GHz with OS 10.5.6 (up-to-date). The last time I did any sort of re-loading the OS/clean install/whatever was a couple years or more back.

The second I have a less than one-year-old MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.6 Intel Core 2 Duo with OS 10.5.6 (up-to-date). I just recently had to re-load everything and did it properly using the Combined updater rather than individual updates (except for the little ones since the combo).

So, when I put the Sony USB drive into the DIR-655 with firmware 1.31 and Mac SharePort 1.01 installed on each machine, the Sony USB drive populates the Finder when connected to the G5 but does not on the new MacBook Pro.

The MacBook Pro is of course running on the wireless while the G5 is hard-connected to the DIR-655. Is doesn't seem to be a wireless issue because I hard-connected via Ethernet with the MacBook Pro to test this and it still didn't connect. I get an error--and the USB drive is not connected to any other machine via SharePort.

I will try the re-install of SharePort to hopefully resolve this issue but other than that, any ideas?

[sandman]

I wondered if any Mac users had moved to 1.31 and had their problems with the shareport resolved, or tried the move and still had the same problems?

[guitren]

The problem I think is with the utility or MacBook... I've upgraded to 1.31, still have connection issues.

[summerstormpictures]

The problem I think is with the utility or MacBook... I've upgraded to 1.31, still have connection issues.

I have a little Sony USB drive/RAM stick that automatically connects when I first insert it into the DIR-655, but then maybe a couple hours or so later, it disconnects ''incorrectly'' and I get the dialog about media being removed improperly--which it wasn't.

As for my printer: It's an older HP DeskJet 932C which works perfectly if connected to a Mac or for another Mac on the network if the Mac it's connected to shares it (on the network via the DIR-655)--however--it does not work if connected directly to the DIR-655. The network and SharePort ''see'' it fine and it can be configured to connect only when printing rather than automatically--but as for actual printing--no dice. Now, I did read that the printer must either support or not support asynchronous communication (can't remember) but I do recall checking this and finding out I was out of luck. Hard to imagine though actually that if a USB device works on the network itself via another computer that it can't work connected to the DIR-655.

Anyway, I'm sure there are glitches that need to be ironed out still yet since we Mac users are only now being allowed into the ''club.''

[sandman]

Thanks guitren & summerstormpictures. Let us hope these shareport problems relating to certain Mac computers & certain types of printer or backup medium get sorted sometime. I feel it may be a while though! 
I will stick to my 1.21 for now & see!
Cheers,
Sandman