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[TheHoff]

http://www.silexeurope.com/en/home/support/productgroups/common-downloads/device-server-and-virtual-link.html

This was posted in another thread about a certain router but I installed this with my DIR-628 (fw 1.20na) and it worked perfectly with my USB Raid enclosure and OS X 10.5.7, MBP.

Sorry D-Link, but this non-branded software works right now. It looks like the exact same app except that it works and doesn't have the D-Link logo.

[summerstormpictures]

Which one? I see two utilities.

The reason I ask is that by the fateful aligning of planets, my MBP 10.5.7 works with the SharePort but my PowerPC G5 has problems. While I'm hesitant to ''fix what ain't broke'' on the MBP, if anyone has tried the PowerPC version---let's hear. I'm going to give it a whirl.

[TheHoff]

http://www.silexeurope.com/media/software/s-42a310.zip

That is the package I downloaded (SX Virtual Link for OS X). It looks like the link at the top includes that Utility and something else, but I didn't need the something else.

My Shareport has never connected before this so I didn't have much to lose. I don't  know what product that download is for, but as I said, it looks identical to the software D-Link is trying to implement. Thanks to the poster in the other DIR-655 thread for the link.

[summerstormpictures]

The Silex utility is exactly like the SharePort utility in that it also doesn't work on the PowerPC-Power Mac G5 I have. The printer shows up but it gives me errors upon connection and disconnection--right before connecting or disconnecting fully. Never prints. Not sure what gives but obviously these two twin ''brothers'' separated at birth share the same ''genetic'' defects--at least as far as my G5. Interestingly enough it seems to work okay on the Windows XP/Dell and my MacBook Pro--both printing test pages fine.

[Amazing Iceman]

LOL.... At least Silex's cosetup installation utility actually runs on my MAC. The one included in the D-Link package doesn't work.
I'll give it a try and report back. Thanks for providing this link. Hopefully it will work for me too.

[windyone]

Both the D-link and the SX shareport utility's launch ok from the dock and stay up, but the identical message displayed is
"No device servers were found on the network.
Make sure your device servers are set properly."
If anyone knows how to resolve this I would be grateful, because on my WinXp side of my network it sees
my DIR-635 and Samsung 2240 printer perfectly. Although even there it didn't work at first and I had to tinker with the firewall putting 9303 under UDP as an exception, but the Mac 10.5.7 firewall doesn't allow such easy modifications or unless someone knows how to modify it.

[Fatman]

The Mac firewall wants you to make exemptions by application as I recall, does it work making the Shareport utility (or this 3rd party utility I can't comment on) a exemption?

Does it work with your Mac Firewall off?

[windyone]

Fatman Thanks for the reply but no - neither utility work or remove "No device servers etc" when turning Firewall is off. As I said before, I did get the same message at first on the WinXP Shareport side of my network until I found another poster here had found putting an exception Port 9303 UDP solved this, but on OSX 10.5.7 as it's an Application Firewall there is no obvious way (to me) of configuring this.

[Fatman]

Well in OS X if it says your firewall is off, they mean it.  It is not like the overbearing Windows firewall.

Do you have multiple network adapters, is the Shareport utility configured for the correct one?

[Navan]

Does it work for OSX 10.5.7? I called Dlink and they said THEIR utility doesn't work...OSX is like 6 years old, no?

[windyone]

Fatman No I don't have multiple adaptors, this is the latest iMac 2.66 bought/manufactured in April which is after D-link or Silex have brought out their utility software. But like all iMac's only comes with one internal ethernet port or Airport wireless of which I've tried both. Some posters claim they can connect to D-link Shareport or SX virtual with 10.5.7 seeing their NAS drives /printers, but do they have new Macs or just upgraded to the latest OP system.

[summerstormpictures]

I called Dlink and they said...

Who did you talk to? Moe, Larry or Curley?

Yeah, I know...I know...but one begins to wonder sometimes who's running the shop there...

[Fatman]

Fatman No I don't have multiple adaptors, this is the latest iMac 2.66 bought/manufactured in April which is after D-link or Silex have brought out their utility software. But like all iMac's only comes with one internal ethernet port or Airport wireless of which I've tried both. Some posters claim they can connect to D-link Shareport or SX virtual with 10.5.7 seeing their NAS drives /printers, but do they have new Macs or just upgraded to the latest OP system.

Having Ethernet and Airport is what I meant by having multiple adapters (I only know their notebook line, I don't know their desktops so I didn't know if airport is standard there), in theory they could be connected to different networks, I wouldn't know about your setup, but I know you can select the adapter in Shareport and that is a big part of it not working for at least one previous poster.

Who did you talk to? Moe, Larry or Curley?

Yeah, I know...I know...but one begins to wonder sometimes who's running the shop there...

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Who is running the shop should not be in question, the guys in nice suits who talk a lot about money run the shots.  The guys who run the forums and respond to you guys are not even close to the suits.  Did I miss your point entirely?

[summerstormpictures]

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Who is running the shop should not be in question, the guys in nice suits who talk a lot about money run the shots.  The guys who run the forums and respond to you guys are not even close to the suits.  Did I miss your point entirely?

Sometimes the perceived target isn't the actual target. Unfortunately discontent is often aimed at the first place of contact. It would seem that all the hellfire you all are taking at the expense (or not enough expense) of ''the suits'' might pay off as other tech related sites continue to pick up on the discontent with the development and deployment process. Word of mouth is the most powerful marketing force this day and age and it can directly affect the bottom line. Hopefully the bad word of mouth beginning to circulate throughout the tech community will translate into an influx of resources. That's all that's really being asked, really. In the current economic downturn people don't want to feel like they wasted their increasingly precious dollars. The ''suits'' at D-Link don't want those dollars to flow elsewhere either. It's a buyer's market and everybody knows it.

To update an old cliché: Nothing is worse than a customer scorned.

My advice to D-Link is don't try to change the wind. Change your sails.

End of cliché fest.

[arkaska]

So I'm having the same problem. Tried both Dlinks shareport and the one sugested here and the only result I get is:

"No device servers were found on the network.
Make sure your device servers are set properly."

I'm using a DIR-635 by the way and it's working on my PC.