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[summerstormpictures]

What ''horrors'' am I risking by using this beta. Your warning is so scary that it even makes beta testing a frightening prospect. What catastrophes have been reported and what successes--and how did they avoid catastrophe?

Inquiring minds want to know...

[pr1m3_5u5p3ct]

Personally, I see no differences whatsoever between 1.01 and 1.10 beta... *sigh* they wasted my time again...

[summerstormpictures]

Well, I ''went for it'' and downloaded it. None of the installers work. Not only that but they still haven't included a very simple text file ''how to install'' but rather make you trawl down into two folders. You'd think it would be intuitive but the two folders seem to be almost identical...

...but none of that matters anyway since none of the potential installers works--rather just fails out.

Please include a ''read me'' of some sort--especially with betas like this. Something tells me I am fortunate that none of the installers worked. I may have avoided disaster.

[SwimmerTy]

I've got the 655 as well and cannot get either the 1.01 or the 1.10 to work.  I've tried un-install and re-install many times, router reboots, using different drives/printers for the usb port on the router etc...

I have also tried using 10-4 and 10-2 to no avail.  I constant get a connect and the automatic disconnect.  I am the only one using the router and system.  I am running 10.5.7 OSX on a Macbook with an open firewall.

Any help D-Link?  It seems that your product has failed us mac owners.

HW 655 Ver A3
FW 1.31 NA

[Masco]

Hi Folks,

Got the new 1.10 beta last night and replaced the totally non-working (for me at least) 1.0.

After a few misfires (error connecting / disconnecting) while trying to connect to my Seagate Freeagent 500GB drive, I hit paydirt! But only briefly; it showed up in Finder and I could read the contents of the drive (mostly FLAC files), but after 60 seconds, it disconnected though this time without error. I was able to reconnect without error, and read the drive again, but after 60 seconds, another disconnect.

Now, I can connect to the drive via Shareport Utility, but it will not show up in Finder. After a few automatic disconnects as described below, I get "a network error has occurred" which remains for less than 1 minute before the drive becomes "available" again.

FWIW, I'm using Macbook 13" Core2Duo with OS10.5.7. FW is 1.31NA

Thanks for the new beta, and though I still can't report solid operation, I appreciate the work and some apparent progress. Let me know if I can do anything to provide more helpful feedback.

[Masco]

UPDATE:

I stepped away from my desk for 30 minutes for a meeting, came back, and the drive was appropriately mounted in Finder.

I am able to play music from the drive as if it were attached. Performance isn't ideal - I get frequent short dropouts, but I suppose that is due more to the transmission speed variations over the WiFi. The wireless is shared between about 7 of us in the office.

I'll report more as I am able.

[samjlee]

MASCO, which files did you run to install the program?  I'd like to get a step by step on what you did to get it working...

As for me, I'm running MBP 2.4 Ghz OSX 10.5.7 and hackintosh Dell 10.5.6, Hardware version 4, Firmware 1.31.  I click on the cosetup file and nothing happens. My aim with this shareport is to plug in a 5-drive Raid USB 2.0 unit as my media server, but if this thing continues to fail, I might just opt to get on of those NAS devices instead.

What gets me is that the installer files are named "SharePortUtility_10_2" and "SharePortUtility_10_4" with file modification dates going back to Oct 31, 2008!  My guess is that these are for WAY OLDER versions of OSX and the D-Link tech support folks should include a WORKING and up-to-date version of "SharePortUtility_10_5".  In fact there aren't any files included with the 1.10 beta download that's newer than February 13th, so they're really not paying much attention to us Mac users!

UPDATE:

I stepped away from my desk for 30 minutes for a meeting, came back, and the drive was appropriately mounted in Finder.

I am able to play music from the drive as if it were attached. Performance isn't ideal - I get frequent short dropouts, but I suppose that is due more to the transmission speed variations over the WiFi. The wireless is shared between about 7 of us in the office.

I'll report more as I am able.

[samjlee]

Ok, I installed file 10_4 and it worked.  However, I'm not able to get anything to mount in Finder even though the shareport utlity says I'm connected.  I also find it odd that every time i connect or disconnect I get an error message saying that it failed even though the utility says otherwise.  I'm so confused!

Also, DLINK if you're listening, can you figure out a way so that multiple users can use connected devices simultaneously???  That would be so much better!

[Masco]

Hi Samjlee,

I ran the 10_4 pkg which installed successfully since as you found, Cosetup crashes.

I left for my meeting defeated because Shareport Util said I was connected, but there was no indication of that in Finder. But, after doing nothing beyond that (besides wasting my time in a meeting), I came back to find that it was indeed showing up in finder and easily accessible.

Songbird would not let me access it as a music library (presumably due to it's massive size), but I could open files album at a time (roughly 200-300 MB flac files) in VLC and play them. Note that I did experience glitchy playback, but due to the fact that my small office shares the wireless from this router, I am guessing that it was a bandwidth issue, not a Shareport issue.

As I write this, Shareport is not able to connect without giving an error message, a ghost of the HD is stuck in Finder, I cannot eject it, I cannot Force Quit VLC, nor can I force restart Finder. So as soon as I click "post" I'm gonna hard reboot and see if I can duplicate anything positive and hopeful that I achieved today regarding shareport

FWIW, an NAS is by nature a far more reliable and flexible device for media sharing and storage, and would be my default solution. I am pursuing this for my media storage because (A) it's a nice feature to have on a router I like well enough to have bought regardless of it's USB port, and (B) it's a very handy way for me to have access at no additional cost of an NAS to my music library when I'm working at a location in the building other than my desk.

I think that D-link probably does consider it to be important to support Mac users, but given the tremendous devotion of resources to finish the project, maybe it's hard to make it a top priority. As a guy who has a zillion "top priority" projects in motion at any one time, I can't fault them too much. Someone who bought the router (perhaps you?) specifically for this feature is more than entitled to feel differently.

Let's keep our hopes up! I think we'll be pleased with it in the end. I'll check in tomorrow and report more results.
-M

[Masco]

Oh! One last note!

I DID change the name of the drive in Shareport to something more sensible like SEAGATE rather than the bizarre default. It showed up in finder after I had done so, but not before. I don't know if there is a direct correlation or not.

D-link - Would a drive mount as it had been titled in Shareport or as the volume had been named when originally formatted? I can test this, but I named it in Shareport just like I named the volume in Disk Utility.

-M

[Masco]

Hello,

Digging a bit deeper, I again found that though shareport appears to connect, it "times out" after 60 seconds and disconnects. I wonder if my HD is spinning down and disconnecting before Finder realizes it's there.

I tested this by editing properties of the drive in shareport thinking that doing so might act as a "keepalive" or something and give Finder time to mount it. It partially worked. After I closed the properties, Shareport automatically disconnected the drive and I got a finder error saying I unplugged a drive without ejecting it first.

Then the drive was stuck in finder and not addressable. I could not reconnect via shareport without an error, and Finder hung. I cannot force restart finder or do anything else with it now. "massstorage" process was unresponsive according to activity monitor. I could force quit the massstorage process, but still could not do anything with finder.

I'll try later with a thumb drive. Off now to reboot.
-M

[arod]

Yeah i does sound like the Seagate drive is going to sleep. I have a Seagate freeagent as well and when the drive is connected directly to my laptop and there is no activity the drive goes to sleep. When I try to wake the drive it does take a while for it to notice.

[Masco]

I'm gonna poke around seagate's website and see if there is firmware or any kind of control panel for these drives that disables sleep mode. I find also that it will spin down when connected to my macbook after a brief no-use period. FWIW, it's not the 60 seconds or so I notice with the router.

I'm gonna try the thumb drive tomorrow AM and see if I get lucky. Thanks for the feedback.

M

[SwimmerTy]

Let us know if you find any utility that can change the sleep pattern of the drive... I also use a seagate drive and hope this might fix our problems

[summerstormpictures]

Okay, so this is interesting: Somehow by the aligning of the planets, the discovery of Elvis, Bigfoot and the discovery of Jimmy Hoffa's and Doctor Livingston's bodies...

SharePort works on the MacBook Pro via the DIR-655 wireless router.

However, no matter how ''deeply'' I uninstall and reinstall it on the old Power Mac G5--no go. It won't stay connected or temporarily connect to print--just won't work--not at all.

My guess is that it's related to the obvious--the OS itself.

Any ideas?