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[JavaLawyer]

Please add a watchdog process to make sure any software hangs or lockups don't disable the NAS.

I recently did a remote reboot and the NAS just locked up with NO FAN! Needless to say, I came back on site and the unit was extremely hot, luckily there was no damage. Typically the processor should have a hardware watchdog facility built in, if not then either a software watchdog or just default the fan speed to high on any system change before its set and immediately change it back on confirmation. This would at least guarantee the unit is getting some airflow in the event the system locks up.

Added to the firmware wishlist. . . 

[JavaLawyer]

[The following DNS-345 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-345 Wishlist

• General - Dropbox support
• General - Generate exception message if an unsupported or incorrect firmware file upload is attempted
• General - iSCSI support
• General - Support for the latest version of Google Chrome (and other popular browsers)
• General - System Settings - Add option under "Management > System Management > System Settings" to set the Online Help Menu state as either "Collapsed" or "Expanded"
• General - Add watchdog process to ensure software hangs do not disable critical system functionality, such as fan/temperature control
  
• App - Ability to enable Master Browser without installing fun_plug
• App - iPhoto Support
• App - iTunes - Add Netatalk 2.2.x support
• App - iTunes - Add OSX Lion support
• App - mydlink Cloud - Help options (on main toolbar and under "Miscellaneous") only link to the D-Link USA website homepage and do not offer any support or help documentation
• App - "mydlink Cloud - Tools > Manage Guest Users" only lists the guest user accounts, but does not provide any option to manage the user accounts. Is the menu mislabeled or is the functionality broken?
• App - P2P - Option to exclude specific files from download
• App - P2P - Option to specify external USB drive as Torrent Save Path
• App - Surveillance Center - Firefox Support
• App - Transmission - [Bug] Frequent "Too many files opened" errors, causing downloads to freeze (Transmission app must be disabled/re-enabled via the Application Manager to temporarily fix the issue) [Reported by multiple users]
  
• Backup - Add backup status to the notifications and log (i.e. no easy method exists to access the success/failure of a backup job)
• Backup - Add RSYNC style --delete option in the Local to Backup scheduler (i.e. if files are deleted in the source directory, the files can also be deleted in the destination directory)
• Backup - Graceful method to cancel an in-progress backup job
• Backup - Option to schedule backups on an hourly, 30-minute, or 15-minute interval (rather than just daily, weekly, monthly)
• Backup - Simulated Run option to test backup job behavior before committing to actual execution (and companion log file generation to examine simulated and actual execution)
• Fan Control - Ability to add manual value inputs rather than fixed values (Auto Off/Low/High, Always On High)
• OLED - Activating OLED sleep mode causes DNS-345 to become inaccessible (i.e. reboot is require to regain control)
• OLED - Manually change the OLED display name from "DNS-345" to a user defined value
• RSync - Backup jobs will fail with passwords exceeding 8 characters
• System Notification - Creating a new account with an invalid name causes the following grammatically incorrect message, "This account does not accepted . Please try again." (alternative wording: "Invalid account name. Please select another name.")
  
• System Status - Add option change bandwidth graph scale (10/100/1000 Mbps)
• System Status - Bandwidth graph displays erroneous data (See original post)
  
• System Status - Bandwidth graph Help on right side of screen should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• System Status - Bandwidth graph legend should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• UPnP - Option to choose specific folders for the media server
• UPS - Option to schedule NAS shutdown based on remaining UPS battery time

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

• TBD

[JavaLawyer]

App - Surveillance Center - Support for more recent D-Link Cloud Cameras
The list of supported cameras has not been updated since the v1.00 release of the app.

Added to firmware wishlist...

[JavaLawyer]

[The following DNS-345 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-345 Wishlist

• General - Dropbox support
• General - Generate exception message if an unsupported or incorrect firmware file upload is attempted
• General - iSCSI support
• General - Support for the latest version of Google Chrome (and other popular browsers)
• General - System Settings - Add option under "Management > System Management > System Settings" to set the Online Help Menu state as either "Collapsed" or "Expanded"
• General - Add watchdog process to ensure software hangs do not disable critical system functionality, such as fan/temperature control
  
• App - Ability to enable Master Browser without installing fun_plug
• App - iPhoto Support
• App - iTunes - Add Netatalk 2.2.x support
• App - iTunes - Add OSX Lion support
• App - mydlink Cloud - Help options (on main toolbar and under "Miscellaneous") only link to the D-Link USA website homepage and do not offer any support or help documentation
• App - "mydlink Cloud - Tools > Manage Guest Users" only lists the guest user accounts, but does not provide any option to manage the user accounts. Is the menu mislabeled or is the functionality broken?
• App - P2P - Option to exclude specific files from download
• App - P2P - Option to specify external USB drive as Torrent Save Path
• App - Surveillance Center - Firefox Support
• App - Surveillance Center - Support for more recent D-Link Cloud Cameras
  
• App - Transmission - [Bug] Frequent "Too many files opened" errors, causing downloads to freeze (Transmission app must be disabled/re-enabled via the Application Manager to temporarily fix the issue) [Reported by multiple users]
  
• Backup - Add backup status to the notifications and log (i.e. no easy method exists to access the success/failure of a backup job)
• Backup - Add RSYNC style --delete option in the Local to Backup scheduler (i.e. if files are deleted in the source directory, the files can also be deleted in the destination directory)
• Backup - Graceful method to cancel an in-progress backup job
• Backup - Option to schedule backups on an hourly, 30-minute, or 15-minute interval (rather than just daily, weekly, monthly)
• Backup - Simulated Run option to test backup job behavior before committing to actual execution (and companion log file generation to examine simulated and actual execution)
• Fan Control - Ability to add manual value inputs rather than fixed values (Auto Off/Low/High, Always On High)
• OLED - Activating OLED sleep mode causes DNS-345 to become inaccessible (i.e. reboot is require to regain control)
• OLED - Manually change the OLED display name from "DNS-345" to a user defined value
• RSync - Backup jobs will fail with passwords exceeding 8 characters
• System Notification - Creating a new account with an invalid name causes the following grammatically incorrect message, "This account does not accepted . Please try again." (alternative wording: "Invalid account name. Please select another name.")
  
• System Status - Add option change bandwidth graph scale (10/100/1000 Mbps)
• System Status - Bandwidth graph displays erroneous data (See original post)
  
• System Status - Bandwidth graph Help on right side of screen should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• System Status - Bandwidth graph legend should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• UPnP - Option to choose specific folders for the media server
• UPS - Option to schedule NAS shutdown based on remaining UPS battery time

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

• TBD

[BlazeBlade]

Hi Community,

Just purchased a DNS-345 and its a great device!

How about the following items for the wishlist.

- AirPrint support for USB Printer (not sure if that's technically even possible)
- Usenet Download Client
- Ability to rename or set Volume names instead of Volume_1 and Volume_2
- TFTP Server

Cheers!

[JavaLawyer]

Hi Community,

Just purchased a DNS-345 and its a great device!

How about the following items for the wishlist.

- AirPrint support for USB Printer (not sure if that's technically even possible)
- Usenet Download Client
- Ability to rename or set Volume names instead of Volume_1 and Volume_2
- TFTP Server

Cheers!

Added to the wishlist... 

[JavaLawyer]

The following DNS-345 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-345 Wishlist

• General - Dropbox support
• General - Generate exception message if an unsupported or incorrect firmware file upload is attempted
• General - iSCSI support
• General - Support for the latest version of Google Chrome (and other popular browsers)
• General - System Settings - Add option under "Management > System Management > System Settings" to set the Online Help Menu state as either "Collapsed" or "Expanded"
• General - Add watchdog process to ensure software hangs do not disable critical system functionality, such as fan/temperature control
• General - TFTP server support
  
• General - Usenet download client
  
• General - Ability to rename Volumes (rather than Volume_1, Volume_2, etc.)
  
• App - Ability to enable Master Browser without installing fun_plug
• App - iPhoto Support
• App - iTunes - Add Netatalk 2.2.x support
• App - iTunes - Add OSX Lion support
• App - mydlink Cloud - Help options (on main toolbar and under "Miscellaneous") only link to the D-Link USA website homepage and do not offer any support or help documentation
• App - "mydlink Cloud - Tools > Manage Guest Users" only lists the guest user accounts, but does not provide any option to manage the user accounts. Is the menu mislabeled or is the functionality broken?
• App - P2P - Option to exclude specific files from download
• App - P2P - Option to specify external USB drive as Torrent Save Path
• App - Surveillance Center - Firefox Support
• App - Surveillance Center - Support for more recent D-Link Cloud Cameras
• App - Transmission - [Bug] Frequent "Too many files opened" errors, causing downloads to freeze (Transmission app must be disabled/re-enabled via the Application Manager to temporarily fix the issue) [Reported by multiple users]
  
• Backup - Add backup status to the notifications and log (i.e. no easy method exists to access the success/failure of a backup job)
• Backup - Add RSYNC style --delete option in the Local to Backup scheduler (i.e. if files are deleted in the source directory, the files can also be deleted in the destination directory)
• Backup - Graceful method to cancel an in-progress backup job
• Backup - Option to schedule backups on an hourly, 30-minute, or 15-minute interval (rather than just daily, weekly, monthly)
• Backup - Simulated Run option to test backup job behavior before committing to actual execution (and companion log file generation to examine simulated and actual execution)
• Fan Control - Ability to add manual value inputs rather than fixed values (Auto Off/Low/High, Always On High)
• OLED - Activating OLED sleep mode causes DNS-345 to become inaccessible (i.e. reboot is require to regain control)
• OLED - Manually change the OLED display name from "DNS-345" to a user defined value
• RSync - Backup jobs will fail with passwords exceeding 8 characters
• System Notification - Creating a new account with an invalid name causes the following grammatically incorrect message, "This account does not accepted . Please try again." (alternative wording: "Invalid account name. Please select another name.")
• System Status - Add option change bandwidth graph scale (10/100/1000 Mbps)
• System Status - Bandwidth graph displays erroneous data (See original post)
  
• System Status - Bandwidth graph Help on right side of screen should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• System Status - Bandwidth graph legend should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• UPnP - Option to choose specific folders for the media server
• UPS - Option to schedule NAS shutdown based on remaining UPS battery time
• USB - Airprint Support

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

• TBD

[JavaLawyer]

D-Link released DNS-345 firmware v1.03b06.
This latest version includes iSCSI support.

If you see any additional items fixed or added to this latest firmware that also listed on the firmware wishlist, please reply with your observations 

[JavaLawyer]

The following DNS-345 Firmware Wishlist contains the collective suggestions provided by the DNS-345 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-345 Wishlist

• General - Dropbox support
• General - Generate exception message if an unsupported or incorrect firmware file upload is attempted
• General - Support for the latest version of Google Chrome (and other popular browsers)
• General - System Settings - Add option under "Management > System Management > System Settings" to set the Online Help Menu state as either "Collapsed" or "Expanded"
• General - Add watchdog process to ensure software hangs do not disable critical system functionality, such as fan/temperature control
• General - TFTP server support
  
• General - Usenet download client
  
• General - Ability to rename Volumes (rather than Volume_1, Volume_2, etc.)
  
• App - Ability to enable Master Browser without installing fun_plug
• App - iPhoto Support
• App - iTunes - Add Netatalk 2.2.x support
• App - iTunes - Add OSX Lion support
• App - mydlink Cloud - Help options (on main toolbar and under "Miscellaneous") only link to the D-Link USA website homepage and do not offer any support or help documentation
• App - "mydlink Cloud - Tools > Manage Guest Users" only lists the guest user accounts, but does not provide any option to manage the user accounts. Is the menu mislabeled or is the functionality broken?
• App - P2P - Option to exclude specific files from download
• App - P2P - Option to specify external USB drive as Torrent Save Path
• App - Surveillance Center - Firefox Support
• App - Surveillance Center - Support for more recent D-Link Cloud Cameras
• App - Transmission - [Bug] Frequent "Too many files opened" errors, causing downloads to freeze (Transmission app must be disabled/re-enabled via the Application Manager to temporarily fix the issue) [Reported by multiple users]
  
• Backup - Add backup status to the notifications and log (i.e. no easy method exists to access the success/failure of a backup job)
• Backup - Add RSYNC style --delete option in the Local to Backup scheduler (i.e. if files are deleted in the source directory, the files can also be deleted in the destination directory)
• Backup - Graceful method to cancel an in-progress backup job
• Backup - Option to schedule backups on an hourly, 30-minute, or 15-minute interval (rather than just daily, weekly, monthly)
• Backup - Simulated Run option to test backup job behavior before committing to actual execution (and companion log file generation to examine simulated and actual execution)
• Fan Control - Ability to add manual value inputs rather than fixed values (Auto Off/Low/High, Always On High)
• OLED - Activating OLED sleep mode causes DNS-345 to become inaccessible (i.e. reboot is require to regain control)
• OLED - Manually change the OLED display name from "DNS-345" to a user defined value
• RSync - Backup jobs will fail with passwords exceeding 8 characters
• System Notification - Creating a new account with an invalid name causes the following grammatically incorrect message, "This account does not accepted . Please try again." (alternative wording: "Invalid account name. Please select another name.")
• System Status - Add option change bandwidth graph scale (10/100/1000 Mbps)
• System Status - Bandwidth graph displays erroneous data (See original post)
  
• System Status - Bandwidth graph Help on right side of screen should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• System Status - Bandwidth graph legend should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• UPnP - Option to choose specific folders for the media server
• UPS - Option to schedule NAS shutdown based on remaining UPS battery time
• USB - Airprint Support

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

• General - iSCSI support [Added!]

[Bad Wolf]

Just purchased a DNS 345 for myself after getting one for my brother in law... but for me I would love to see NTFS support (or Alt-F for the DNS 345) so I can just put NTFS formatted drives in without having to reformat and transfer information.

[JavaLawyer]

Just purchased a DNS 345 for myself after getting one for my brother in law... but for me I would love to see NTFS support (or Alt-F for the DNS 345) so I can just put NTFS formatted drives in without having to reformat and transfer information.

I'll add this but I can assure you it will never come to fruition. The entire D-Link ShareCenter product line is based on the Linux operating system and relies on EXT for all HDD formatting/configuration.

Alt-F would be nice, but that's up to third party developers to build. 

[JavaLawyer]

The following DNS-345 Firmware Wishlist contains the collective suggestions provided by the DNS-345 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-345 Wishlist

• General - Dropbox support
• General - Generate exception message if an unsupported or incorrect firmware file upload is attempted
• General - NTFS HDD support
  
• General - Support for the latest version of Google Chrome (and other popular browsers)
• General - System Settings - Add option under "Management > System Management > System Settings" to set the Online Help Menu state as either "Collapsed" or "Expanded"
• General - Add watchdog process to ensure software hangs do not disable critical system functionality, such as fan/temperature control
• General - TFTP server support
  
• General - Usenet download client
  
• General - Ability to rename Volumes (rather than Volume_1, Volume_2, etc.)
  
• App - Ability to enable Master Browser without installing fun_plug
• App - iPhoto Support
• App - iTunes - Add Netatalk 2.2.x support
• App - iTunes - Add OSX Lion support
• App - mydlink Cloud - Help options (on main toolbar and under "Miscellaneous") only link to the D-Link USA website homepage and do not offer any support or help documentation
• App - "mydlink Cloud - Tools > Manage Guest Users" only lists the guest user accounts, but does not provide any option to manage the user accounts. Is the menu mislabeled or is the functionality broken?
• App - P2P - Option to exclude specific files from download
• App - P2P - Option to specify external USB drive as Torrent Save Path
• App - Surveillance Center - Firefox Support
• App - Surveillance Center - Support for more recent D-Link Cloud Cameras
• App - Transmission - [Bug] Frequent "Too many files opened" errors, causing downloads to freeze (Transmission app must be disabled/re-enabled via the Application Manager to temporarily fix the issue) [Reported by multiple users]
  
• Backup - Add backup status to the notifications and log (i.e. no easy method exists to access the success/failure of a backup job)
• Backup - Add RSYNC style --delete option in the Local to Backup scheduler (i.e. if files are deleted in the source directory, the files can also be deleted in the destination directory)
• Backup - Graceful method to cancel an in-progress backup job
• Backup - Option to schedule backups on an hourly, 30-minute, or 15-minute interval (rather than just daily, weekly, monthly)
• Backup - Simulated Run option to test backup job behavior before committing to actual execution (and companion log file generation to examine simulated and actual execution)
• Fan Control - Ability to add manual value inputs rather than fixed values (Auto Off/Low/High, Always On High)
• OLED - Activating OLED sleep mode causes DNS-345 to become inaccessible (i.e. reboot is require to regain control)
• OLED - Manually change the OLED display name from "DNS-345" to a user defined value
• RSync - Backup jobs will fail with passwords exceeding 8 characters
• System Notification - Creating a new account with an invalid name causes the following grammatically incorrect message, "This account does not accepted . Please try again." (alternative wording: "Invalid account name. Please select another name.")
• System Status - Add option change bandwidth graph scale (10/100/1000 Mbps)
• System Status - Bandwidth graph displays erroneous data (See original post)
  
• System Status - Bandwidth graph Help on right side of screen should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• System Status - Bandwidth graph legend should read "Mbps" rather than "MB/s"
• UPnP - Option to choose specific folders for the media server
• UPS - Option to schedule NAS shutdown based on remaining UPS battery time
• USB - Airprint Support

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

• General - iSCSI support [Added!]

[Bad Wolf]

I'll add this but I can assure you it will never come to fruition. The entire D-Link ShareCenter product line is based on the Linux operating system and relies on EXT for all HDD formatting/configuration.

Alt-F would be nice, but that's up to third party developers to build. 

Hi JL, I appreciate what you're saying but what D-Link needs to understand is that a very large portion of their customers are using this NAS with a Windows based operating system (which equals poor Ext support). I spent several days transferring data from my NTFS formatted hard drives across the LAN to the NAS.

Think how much more desirable the D-Link products would be if you could just drop in a NTFS formatted HDD without having to reformat it, or juggle large drives (3-4 TB), or having to buy additional HDDs to perform the juggling act.

Even though I bought one of these for my brother in law first with different requirements, I was actually looking at other manufacturers myself because the D-Link lacked this NTFS support functionality. I ultimately decided to take one on the chin for the sake of family, so we were both using the same hardware and I would only have to learn how to support one model instead of two.

Not everyone is going to be in that boat, and will make a decision that supports them based upon their needs. Not trying to be funny but D-Link needs to think about their customer base on this one. The same way Apple makes up 3% of the PC market but everyone thinks the world revolves around them, truth is they are the minority and apps should be based around the majority not the minority (i.e. Android not IOS).

[JavaLawyer]

Hi JL, I appreciate what you're saying but what D-Link needs to understand is that a very large portion of their customers are using this NAS with a Windows based operating system (which equals poor Ext support). I spent several days transferring data from my NTFS formatted hard drives across the LAN to the NAS.

Think how much more desirable the D-Link products would be if you could just drop in a NTFS formatted HDD without having to reformat it, or juggle large drives (3-4 TB), or having to buy additional HDDs to perform the juggling act.

Even though I bought one of these for my brother in law first with different requirements, I was actually looking at other manufacturers myself because the D-Link lacked this NTFS support functionality. I ultimately decided to take one on the chin for the sake of family, so we were both using the same hardware and I would only have to learn how to support one model instead of two.

Not everyone is going to be in that boat, and will make a decision that supports them based upon their needs. Not trying to be funny but D-Link needs to think about their customer base on this one. The same way Apple makes up 3% of the PC market but everyone thinks the world revolves around them, truth is they are the minority and apps should be based around the majority not the minority (i.e. Android not IOS).

I fully understand where you are coming from (as I am in the same boat), but to achieve this objective D-Link would have to substantially re-engineer the firmware for the entire ShareCenter product line which is all based on the same code.  I believe D-Link has done a fair job of providing cross-platform interoperability through it's web Interface and add-ons. Despite your misgivings, Linux is a highly stable, extensible operating system, that is both independently maintained and not tied to Microsoft. Another point to raise is that at this price point, D-Link does provide an exception value when it comes to price to performance/functionality compared to other more expensive alternatives.

[Bad Wolf]

I have neither a problem with Linux or Ext, but unfortunately MS provides very poor support for Ext to make the journey a painless one (if MS did support Ext I would format drives to it, and there wouldn't be a problem) Perhaps we can convince MS to support Ext better (but then again they don't even support NTFS all that well, with their excruciating "Read Only" messages every time you want to read a drive).

Anyway keep up the good work