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[Her_Kitty_Daddy]

FYI, V1.04 (11/28/2012) includes IPV6 support already.

[JavaLawyer]

FYI, V1.04 (11/28/2012) includes IPV6 support already.

Thanks, updating the firmware wishlist.

[JavaLawyer]

The following DNS-325 Firmware Wishlist contains the collective suggestions provided by the DNS-325 D-Link forum community, and may not reflect actual changes to current or future firmware releases. If you would like to contribute to this list, please post your suggestions as a reply to this thread.

Below is a summary of everyone's input thus far. Please let me know if I over-generalized, misrepresented, or overlooked anyone's concerns and I'll refresh the list with updates. Recent additions/changes are highlighted in blue. Items addressed on the latest firmware are striked out.

If any items in the wishlist were fixed by the latest firmware, please post and I'll update!

DNS-325 Wishlist

• General - Ability to access and move files/directories on a USB storage device using the DNS-325 file manager
• General - Ability to access HTTP web management via an alternate port (for security reasons)
• General - Ability to configure NAS options using Telnet via an alternate port (for security)
• General - Ability to configure the date format (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD)
• General - Ability to create a hidden share (e.g. similar to the use of "$" in Windows)
• General - Ability to provide FTP access to DNS-325 directories without requiring the directories are first established as shared
• General - Ability to restore deleted files contained in the on-board "Recycle" folder
• General - Ability to send email notification to multiple email accounts
• General - Ability to rename NAS root volume names (i.e. rather than Volume_1)
• General - Ability to restrict/grant access to USB attached storage to designated user accounts
• General - Ability to specify a user defined name for a shared directory rather than defaulting to the actual directory name
• General - Add Kernel support of iptables and ip6tables
• General - Add OpenVPN server support
• General - Concurrent spin-up of both HDDs for RAID 1 (to reduce access delay)
• General - Correlate temperature to fan speed in email log entries (i.e. add HDD/system temperature to each fan log entry)
• General - Danish language pack
• General - Documented and configurable UPS support
• General - IE 10 Support
• General - Integrated file browser (with ability to delete files and directories)
• General - LAMP Server (Apache+MySQL+PHP)
• General - Option to configure fan behavior based on temperature thresholds[/color] (Please see original post, here)
  
• General - Option to create a share directory when creating a new user account  (See original request here)
  
• General - Plex Support
• General - Services configured with DYNDNS DDNS directs to the local IP (192.168.x.x) and not the outside IP (i.e. ISP)
• General - SNMP MIB support
• General - Status Info - Display current fan speed (i.e. RPM or Off/Low/Med/High)[
• General - Status page displaying the percent usage or actual storage used for quotas established for each user group
• General - Support for power-on NAS via wake-on-LAN (WOL)
• General - Support for power-on on a schedule
• General - Support for storing live video from IP security camera(s)
• General - Support for Active Directory Services (i.e. Adapt ADS plugin from DNS-343)
• General - S.M.A.R.T. - Option to schedule multiple S.M.A.R.T. tests for different HDDs
• General - SVN Server
  
• General - System - Ability to control features/applications via SSH CLI style interface
• General - System - Option to clear system log after log file email, when log is full, or on a schedule
• General - Team Speak 3 application server support
• General - User customized reports (ability to select variables to report against)
• General - Volume should retain their name when moved to different slots (e.g. a HDD named "Volume_1" in slot-1 should retain the name "Volume_1" when moved to slot-2)
• General - When ShareCenter HDDs are formatted, user configurations that are dependent on the original volume(s) should be removed (i.e. users, groups, shares, etc.)
  
• Audio Streamer - Ability to edit a newly created playlist (i.e. edit port number, list name, and song contents)
• App - General - Ability for user to designate volume/location for application installation
• App - General - Add user friendly application to play multimedia from a PC
• App - General - Application management via PC terminal or IOS Android
• App - PhotoCenter - App has no interface to configure, manage, or add/edit content (i.e. no way to create photo album)
• App - PhotoCenter - ShareCenter user session credentials not passed to the app (i.e. users must double authenticate)
• App - PhotoCenter - Update Gallery App version (newer iterations have improved functionality and ease of use)
• App - General - Provide information and resources for third parties to develop applications
• App - General - Replace current mt-daapd/Firefly-based iTunes Server with AirPlay-capable forked-daapd code
• App - P2P - Ability to add more than one torrent at a time through the web interface
• App - P2P - Ability to add/delete torrent trackers (in the "Downloading" and "Stop Download" states)
• App - P2P - Ability to add greater than 20 (or unlimited) hosted torrents
  
• App - P2P - Ability to open a directory from Volume_1 or P2P and ability to show/hide
• App - P2P - Option to automatically delete completed torrents and start the next torrent in the queue (i.e. to maintain the maximum number of configured simultaneous downloads)
• App - P2P - Option to configure P2P bandwidth limits during peak use hours (See original request here)
  
• App - P2P - Option to define the maximum number of active downloads
• App - P2P - Option to set separate schedules for download versus upload availability (e.g. download 2 AM - 8 AM, upload 12 AM - 12 AM)
• App - P2P - Time remaining for download to complete
• App - P2P - Support for direct download websites (e.g. Megaupload)
• App - P2P - Support for magnetic link (rather than just torrents)
• App - P2P - Support for Pyload
• App - SqueezeCenter - Ability to install SqueezeCenter plugins (i.e. plugins will not install at the typical Linux plugin pat)
• App - SqueezeCenter - Support for the latest Squeezebox server (reported by multiple users)
• General - Suport for syslogd messages and ability to log syslogd messages within a predefined file or share directory
• App - Surveillance Center - Support for more recent D-Link Cloud Cameras
• App - Time Machine - Incompatibility issue with OS X 10.7.1 (reported by multiple users)
• Backup - Add option in backup application to synchronize rather than backup
• Backup - Add option to send status email for completed scheduled backups
• Backup - Cloud storage support (e.g. CrashPlan, Dropbox, ZumoDrive, SkyDrive, Spideroak, Tonido, etc.)
• Backup - Designate USB HDD as the target destination for the integrated "Local Backup" functionality
• Backup - Option to automatically continue/retry failed or interrupted backups
• Backup - Option to use a host name (e.g. xyz123.com) as a remote IP
• Backup - Rsync backups not requiring Rsync daemon
• Backup - Support for Amazon Glacier
• DLNA - Additional video container/codec support to broaden range of compatible devices (e.g. Sony TV, Android devices, etc.)
• DLNA - Album listing should be in track# order (currently alphabetical)
• DLNA - Improve handling of "Album Artist" and "Artist" tags when creating multimedia library to avoid splitting single music album to multiple albums when listing
• GUI - Display all ports used by the NAS and NAS applications
• GUI - Mobile device friendly web interface
• GUI - More user friendly/streamlined web interface
• GUI - Spanish language translation is incomplete (e.g. mail notifications)
• GUI - Themed GUI option (e.g. PC, MAC, Linux)
• Hibernation - Hibernation fails if iTunes server is enabled
• Hibernation - Hibernation fails if "oplocks" is enabled (in "Network Share Settings")
• Hibernation - Hibernation fails when P2P torrent completes, despite user settings to stop seeding (i.e. P2P continues seeding regardless of user settings and hibernation fails)
• Hibernation - If HDDs are in hibernation, add ability to power down DNS-325 without waking-up HDDs
• UPnP - Add Subtitle (*.srt, *sub) support for media files in "UPNP AV SERVER"
• USB - Add Copy Status indicating the quantity of data transfered and transfer rate
• Bug - Network share settings are not saved following reboot when Debian Squeeze is started on the DNS-325
• Bug - Local Backup functionality does not function with OSX
• Bug - SSH Keys are deleted following reboot, preventing SSH backups (FW v1.02)

Wishlist Items Addressed by D-Link (Thank you!)

• General - IPV6 Support [FIXED!]
  
• Hibernation - Hibernation fails if mydlink Cloud service is running [FIXED!]
  
• GUI - Privileges in the folder properties screen are not clearly defined [FIXED!]
  
• General - Improve 3TB HDD support [FIXED!]
  
• General - Recurring schedule for S.M.A.R.T. test [FIXED!]
  
• General - Time Machine OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility [FIXED!]
  
• GUI - Add NAS resource utilization graph (i.e. CPU, memory, network)tion) on the "Storage Status" page [FIXED!]
  
• GUI - Control to change the default "Help" setting to "Hide" OR "Show" ("Hide": users must proactively click "?" to open help. "Show": Help is always visible) [FIXED!]
  

[Her_Kitty_Daddy]

You're welcome.

A comment (read OPINION) about an item on the current wishlist:
General - Ability to rename NAS root volume names (i.e. rather than Volume_1)

I really think that this is not needed. As I showed in my note about putting more than one NAS on a "Mac network" (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=59071.msg234053#msg234053), the volume name "Volume_x" only really should matter to the NAS itself and should not be seen in the outside world.

I believe that the "Correction" of this situation would be to have a virgin machine show one share already defined "admin" (the share for the only existing user at the moment which will also address another item on the wishlist) and that should be the only one exported. Then *CLEAR* instructions need to be written and provided on how to create and export a share that is usable by ordinary users.

[JavaLawyer]

You're welcome.

A comment (read OPINION) about an item on the current wishlist:
General - Ability to rename NAS root volume names (i.e. rather than Volume_1)

I really think that this is not needed. As I showed in my note about putting more than one NAS on a "Mac network" (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=59071.msg234053#msg234053), the volume name "Volume_x" only really should matter to the NAS itself and should not be seen in the outside world.

I believe that the "Correction" of this situation would be to have a virgin machine show one share already defined "admin" (the share for the only existing user at the moment which will also address another item on the wishlist) and that should be the only one exported. Then *CLEAR* instructions need to be written and provided on how to create and export a share that is usable by ordinary users.

This item is on the wishlist for every ShareCenter model (I believe) and has been a subject of discussion for many years, dating back to the DNS-323/343. The contributors back then (and now) were acutely aware of the ability to rename mapped drive names, etc. but nonetheless wanted a way to rename the volume at the root level within the ShareCenter itself. I personally don't find the need to do this, as I have four ShareCenters and distinguish them by IP address, but other ShareCenter owners feel differently.

[Her_Kitty_Daddy]

There is an option to "Import Users" from the account managemnt page.

It wasn't until after I decided to go into it that I was able to find out how to do this.
It gives you a sample file that you can then use to import this information.

*GREAT* Now, how about a button to EXPORT the users in that format?

I think I'd want the same with shares too.

This goes towards my request that there be an option to import only selective parts of a configuration.

[JavaLawyer]

There is an option to "Import Users" from the account managemnt page.

It wasn't until after I decided to go into it that I was able to find out how to do this.
It gives you a sample file that you can then use to import this information.

*GREAT* Now, how about a button to EXPORT the users in that format?

I think I'd want the same with shares too.

This goes towards my request that there be an option to import only selective parts of a configuration.

Added to the firmware wishlist... 

[JavaLawyer]

The following DNS-325 Firmware Wishlist contains the collective suggestions provided by the DNS-325 D-Link forum community, and may not reflect actual changes to current or future firmware releases. If you would like to contribute to this list, please post your suggestions as a reply to this thread.

Below is a summary of everyone's input thus far. Please let me know if I over-generalized, misrepresented, or overlooked anyone's concerns and I'll refresh the list with updates. Recent additions/changes are highlighted in blue. Items addressed on the latest firmware are striked out.

If any items in the wishlist were fixed by the latest firmware, please post and I'll update!

DNS-325 Wishlist

• General - Ability to access and move files/directories on a USB storage device using the DNS-325 file manager
• General - Ability to access HTTP web management via an alternate port (for security reasons)
• General - Ability to configure NAS options using Telnet via an alternate port (for security)
• General - Ability to configure the date format (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD)
• General - Ability to create a hidden share (e.g. similar to the use of "$" in Windows)
• General - Ability to provide FTP access to DNS-325 directories without requiring the directories are first established as shared
• General - Ability to restore deleted files contained in the on-board "Recycle" folder
• General - Ability to send email notification to multiple email accounts
• General - Ability to rename NAS root volume names (i.e. rather than Volume_1)
• General - Ability to restrict/grant access to USB attached storage to designated user accounts
• General - Ability to specify a user defined name for a shared directory rather than defaulting to the actual directory name
• General - Add Kernel support of iptables and ip6tables
• General - Add OpenVPN server support
• General - Concurrent spin-up of both HDDs for RAID 1 (to reduce access delay)
• General - Correlate temperature to fan speed in email log entries (i.e. add HDD/system temperature to each fan log entry)
• General - Danish language pack
• General - Documented and configurable UPS support
• General - IE 10 Support
• General - Integrated file browser (with ability to delete files and directories)
• General - LAMP Server (Apache+MySQL+PHP)
• General - Option to configure fan behavior based on temperature thresholds[/color] (Please see original post, here)
  
• General - Option to create a share directory when creating a new user account  (See original request here)
  
• General - Plex Support
• General - Services configured with DYNDNS DDNS directs to the local IP (192.168.x.x) and not the outside IP (i.e. ISP)
• General - SNMP MIB support
• General - Status Info - Display current fan speed (i.e. RPM or Off/Low/Med/High)[
• General - Status page displaying the percent usage or actual storage used for quotas established for each user group
• General - Support for power-on NAS via wake-on-LAN (WOL)
• General - Support for power-on on a schedule
• General - Support for storing live video from IP security camera(s)
• General - Support for Active Directory Services (i.e. Adapt ADS plugin from DNS-343)
• General - S.M.A.R.T. - Option to schedule multiple S.M.A.R.T. tests for different HDDs
• General - SVN Server
• General - System - Ability to control features/applications via SSH CLI style interface
• General - System - Option to clear system log after log file email, when log is full, or on a schedule
• General - Team Speak 3 application server support
• General - User customized reports (ability to select variables to report against)
• General - Volume should retain their name when moved to different slots (e.g. a HDD named "Volume_1" in slot-1 should retain the name "Volume_1" when moved to slot-2)
• General - When ShareCenter HDDs are formatted, user configurations that are dependent on the original volume(s) should be removed (i.e. users, groups, shares, etc.)
• Audio Streamer - Ability to edit a newly created playlist (i.e. edit port number, list name, and song contents)
• App - General - Ability for user to designate volume/location for application installation
• App - General - Add user friendly application to play multimedia from a PC
• App - General - Application management via PC terminal or IOS Android
• App - PhotoCenter - App has no interface to configure, manage, or add/edit content (i.e. no way to create photo album)
• App - PhotoCenter - ShareCenter user session credentials not passed to the app (i.e. users must double authenticate)
• App - PhotoCenter - Update Gallery App version (newer iterations have improved functionality and ease of use)
• App - General - Provide information and resources for third parties to develop applications
• App - General - Replace current mt-daapd/Firefly-based iTunes Server with AirPlay-capable forked-daapd code
• App - P2P - Ability to add more than one torrent at a time through the web interface
• App - P2P - Ability to add/delete torrent trackers (in the "Downloading" and "Stop Download" states)
• App - P2P - Ability to add greater than 20 (or unlimited) hosted torrents
• App - P2P - Ability to open a directory from Volume_1 or P2P and ability to show/hide
• App - P2P - Option to automatically delete completed torrents and start the next torrent in the queue (i.e. to maintain the maximum number of configured simultaneous downloads)
• App - P2P - Option to configure P2P bandwidth limits during peak use hours (See original request here)
  
• App - P2P - Option to define the maximum number of active downloads
• App - P2P - Option to set separate schedules for download versus upload availability (e.g. download 2 AM - 8 AM, upload 12 AM - 12 AM)
• App - P2P - Time remaining for download to complete
• App - P2P - Support for direct download websites (e.g. Megaupload)
• App - P2P - Support for magnetic link (rather than just torrents)
• App - P2P - Support for Pyload
• App - SqueezeCenter - Ability to install SqueezeCenter plugins (i.e. plugins will not install at the typical Linux plugin pat)
• App - SqueezeCenter - Support for the latest Squeezebox server (reported by multiple users)
• General - Suport for syslogd messages and ability to log syslogd messages within a predefined file or share directory
• App - Surveillance Center - Support for more recent D-Link Cloud Cameras
• App - Time Machine - Incompatibility issue with OS X 10.7.1 (reported by multiple users)
• Backup - Add option in backup application to synchronize rather than backup
• Backup - Add option to send status email for completed scheduled backups
• Backup - Cloud storage support (e.g. CrashPlan, Dropbox, ZumoDrive, SkyDrive, Spideroak, Tonido, etc.)
• Backup - Designate USB HDD as the target destination for the integrated "Local Backup" functionality
• Backup - Option to automatically continue/retry failed or interrupted backups
• Backup - Option to use a host name (e.g. xyz123.com) as a remote IP
• Backup - Rsync backups not requiring Rsync daemon
• Backup - Support for Amazon Glacier
• Configuration Settings - Option to export user information to a separate file (i.e. the DNS-325 has an "Import" function in "Account Management" with no means of creating an "import" file) and similar option for importing/exporting shares
  
• DLNA - Additional video container/codec support to broaden range of compatible devices (e.g. Sony TV, Android devices, etc.)
• DLNA - Album listing should be in track# order (currently alphabetical)
• DLNA - Improve handling of "Album Artist" and "Artist" tags when creating multimedia library to avoid splitting single music album to multiple albums when listing
• GUI - Display all ports used by the NAS and NAS applications
• GUI - Mobile device friendly web interface
• GUI - More user friendly/streamlined web interface
• GUI - Spanish language translation is incomplete (e.g. mail notifications)
• GUI - Themed GUI option (e.g. PC, MAC, Linux)
• Hibernation - Hibernation fails if iTunes server is enabled
• Hibernation - Hibernation fails if "oplocks" is enabled (in "Network Share Settings")
• Hibernation - Hibernation fails when P2P torrent completes, despite user settings to stop seeding (i.e. P2P continues seeding regardless of user settings and hibernation fails)
• Hibernation - If HDDs are in hibernation, add ability to power down DNS-325 without waking-up HDDs
• UPnP - Add Subtitle (*.srt, *sub) support for media files in "UPNP AV SERVER"
• USB - Add Copy Status indicating the quantity of data transfered and transfer rate
• Bug - Network share settings are not saved following reboot when Debian Squeeze is started on the DNS-325
• Bug - Local Backup functionality does not function with OSX
• Bug - SSH Keys are deleted following reboot, preventing SSH backups (FW v1.02)

Wishlist Items Addressed by D-Link (Thank you!)

• General - IPV6 Support [FIXED!]
  
• Hibernation - Hibernation fails if mydlink Cloud service is running [FIXED!]
  
• GUI - Privileges in the folder properties screen are not clearly defined [FIXED!]
  
• General - Improve 3TB HDD support [FIXED!]
  
• General - Recurring schedule for S.M.A.R.T. test [FIXED!]
  
• General - Time Machine OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility [FIXED!]
  
• GUI - Add NAS resource utilization graph (i.e. CPU, memory, network)tion) on the "Storage Status" page [FIXED!]
  
• GUI - Control to change the default "Help" setting to "Hide" OR "Show" ("Hide": users must proactively click "?" to open help. "Show": Help is always visible) [FIXED!]
  

[Her_Kitty_Daddy]

I'm going to suggest that the wishlist entry that reads:

Configuration Settings - Option to export user information to a separate file (i.e. the DNS-325 has an "Import" function in "Account Management" with no means of creating an "import" file) and similar option for importing/exporting shares

be removed. The reason is that there's more to the feature than just that correction. I'm going to create an entry in the observations topic to discuss this.

I think it qualifies as a bug and as such, the two items might conflict and cause misunderstanding.

[JavaLawyer]

Configuration Settings - Option to export user information to a separate file (i.e. the DNS-325 has an "Import" function in "Account Management" with no means of creating an "import" file) and similar option for importing/exporting shares

I'm going to suggest that the wishlist entry that reads:be removed. The reason is that there's more to the feature than just that correction. I'm going to create an entry in the observations topic to discuss this.

I think it qualifies as a bug and as such, the two items might conflict and cause misunderstanding.

How about this modification:

Configuration Settings - Option to export user information to a separate file (i.e. the DNS-325 has an "Import" function in "Account Management" with no means of creating an "import" file) and similar option for importing/exporting shares. Create a robust import file format (current template seems bug-laden) with support for selective inclusion of specific user/share attributes for export

[Her_Kitty_Daddy]

When saving configuration files, currently they're named something simple but not useful.

I'd suggest that the files be named:
  DNSNAME-config-YYYYMMDD-hhmmss.tar.gz

My machine, called "HOMENAS" would, as backed up in March will produce a file named:
  HOMENAS-config-20140322-161244.tar.gz

There's two important points to the way this is done. The file as saved *NOW* is a tar'ed gzip'd file but does not have the name (which it really should) so the '.tar.gz' part is a bug.

The Date/Time stamp is good business the name of the device is also good practice.

[JavaLawyer]

I'm going to suggest that the wishlist entry that reads:be removed. The reason is that there's more to the feature than just that correction. I'm going to create an entry in the observations topic to discuss this.

I think it qualifies as a bug and as such, the two items might conflict and cause misunderstanding.


How about this modification:

Configuration Settings - Option to export user information to a separate file (i.e. the DNS-325 has an "Import" function in "Account Management" with no means of creating an "import" file) and similar option for importing/exporting shares. Create a robust import file format (current template seems bug-laden) with support for selective inclusion of specific user/share attributes for export

@Her_Kitty_Daddy  - thoughts for this modification?   

[JavaLawyer]

When saving configuration files, currently they're named something simple but not useful.

I'd suggest that the files be named:
  DNSNAME-config-YYYYMMDD-hhmmss.tar.gz

My machine, called "HOMENAS" would, as backed up in March will produce a file named:
  HOMENAS-config-20140322-161244.tar.gz

There's two important points to the way this is done. The file as saved *NOW* is a tar'ed gzip'd file but does not have the name (which it really should) so the '.tar.gz' part is a bug.

The Date/Time stamp is good business the name of the device is also good practice.

Are you referring to the general configuration settings file now?

[Her_Kitty_Daddy]

@Her_Kitty_Daddy  - thoughts for this modification?   

I addressed it over in http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=54848.msg236095#msg236095

The crux of it is, the information needed for this sort of thing is already saved in the configuration file so instead of coming up with a second export/import process (read "Error ****e" & redundant) it would be better if the import process for a configuation file (which already exists) could allow for some selectivity in restoration.

If designing it I would have the restore screen provide a list of checkboxes that will be restored (all on by default) and you can click off the things you don't want overwritten.

A sparkling example of this would be if you wanted to set up a second NAS, you don't want to overwrite the new networking information with the same information in the already running unit.

[JavaLawyer]

I addressed it over in http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=54848.msg236095#msg236095

The crux of it is, the information needed for this sort of thing is already saved in the configuration file so instead of coming up with a second export/import process (read "Error ****e" & redundant) it would be better if the import process for a configuation file (which already exists) could allow for some selectivity in restoration.

If designing it I would have the restore screen provide a list of checkboxes that will be restored (all on by default) and you can click off the things you don't want overwritten.

A sparkling example of this would be if you wanted to set up a second NAS, you don't want to overwrite the new networking information with the same information in the already running unit.

I think we're on the same page now. You're looking for the equivalent of the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard that was included in Windows XP, with check boxes for shares, NW configurations, etc.