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[garyhgaryh]

I had my dns-323 set up about a week ago running 2 1.5T seagate drives.

I don't watch tv much, but this morning at 3am I decided to watch a little TV so I turned on my popcorn hour pch-a100 media player.  To my surprise, all the stuff I downloaded onto the dns-323 shows up.  I was a bit suprised because i didn't have to set anything up, but was worried that everything is shared so openly that if I had some content I didn't want to share, people would have access to them.

Also, I noticed some media files don't show up on my media player that are of media type *.mkv.  There may be others, but that's the only one I noticed.  We should be able to define what media types are shown since the dns-323 doesn't know what type my media player supports.

Anyways, my questions:

1. Is there a way to limit access to my digital content?
2. is there a way to extend the media type I want to display?

Thanks,
Gary

[bripab007]

To limit access to your digital content, you need to limit access to your LAN, and you do that by using a firewall in conjunction with strong passwords and encryption.

To limit other LAN users' access to your digital content, you set up network share security on the DNS-323 itself.  This is outline in the user manual.

[ttmcmurry]

1. Is there a way to limit access to my digital content?
2. is there a way to extend the media type I want to display?

1)  Not via UPnP, once shared, everything under the specified top-level folder is shared
2)  No.  D-Link has predefined specific media types.  .mkv is not sharable via UPnP on fw 1.06.

[slyder]

Change the media server... there are fixes for this by implementing twonkyvision or mediatomb...

[garyhgaryh]

Change the media server... there are fixes for this by implementing twonkyvision or mediatomb...

Are these free?

[bripab007]

1)  Not via UPnP, once shared, everything under the specified top-level folder is shared
2)  No.  D-Link has predefined specific media types.  .mkv is not sharable via UPnP on fw 1.06.

Is the original poster sharing media via the DNS-323's UPnP service? 

[ttmcmurry]

The language of the post indicated that:

To my surprise, all the stuff I downloaded onto the dns-323 shows up.  I was a bit suprised because i didn't have to set anything up

IIRC, UPnP is enabled by default on the 323 from the root folder, everything would show up.

I turned on my popcorn hour pch-a100 media player

It's compatible with internal HDD, USB, UPnP, SMB, NFS, FTP, WMC, HTTP Servers, and BitTorrent.  The only one of those features that would be fully automatic is UPnP in accordance with the 323.  SMB or any other feature (except Windows Media Connect) won't publish anything to media-enabled devices, that's what UPnP does; since WMC wasn't mentioned and the 323 was......

...even hypothetically if the a100 did see the SMB share and somehow indexed it, the .mkv files would have shown up and be able to play.

Are these free?

TwonkyVision works for 45 days, then you have to pay $40 for a license and have to install two unsupported packages on the DNS-323; MediaTomb is free, but I had trouble with it properly sharing certain MPEG-4 filetypes.

[garyhgaryh]

1)  Not via UPnP, once shared, everything under the specified top-level folder is shared
2)  No.  D-Link has predefined specific media types.  .mkv is not sharable via UPnP on fw 1.06.

I have two nas.  My dns-323 is open to all.  I like it like that for this home.  The dns-321 is the secure one with password protection for volume_1.

I decided to play with the dns-323 by creating a volume_1/mediashare folder.  I added that directory as the root of the uPnP folder and saved the setting.

Now I can't get access to my volume_1 as it's not open to ALL!! So I set the root folder back to the root of the dns-323.  I still can't get into my volume_1 folder so i decided to make it just open to me for now. 

Anyone know how to hide or restrict the "BT" directory? I don't want people to be able to browse that directory, yet I don't want to affect the BT client from being able to write in that directory.

Gary

[bripab007]

TwonkyVision works for 45 days, then you have to pay $40 for a license and have to install two unsupported packages on the DNS-323; MediaTomb is free, but I had trouble with it properly sharing certain MPEG-4 filetypes.

Actually, the Twonky trial is 30 days, and it's $29.95 to buy.  I just bought it a few days ago, myself.  It works pretty much perfectly.

[ttmcmurry]

Yours was 30?  Mine was 45.    I still have 28 days left; been running it just over 2 weeks now.  What version were you able to get working properly on your 323?  Only v4 would work on mine.

[bripab007]

Yup, version 4.4.11.