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[cyberlex7]

Hello,
As a Mac user I woudl say that D-Link has really forgotten us, as it's really not pleasant to use this NAS with Samba.
I can't share trhough Itunes my music as it doesn't mount correctly on Mac.

So please in the following developments, i think it's a priority to grant a quality sharing service for MAC Users.

Thanks,
Alex.

[Fatman]

I am going to preface this with a warning that will most certainly fail to garner me any sympathy.

I am a Mac user as well.

And I know this isn't going to help me either but it must be added.

I don't think SMB/CIFS is all that great either, it is flawed as a multivendor standard.

AFP is a vendor specific protocol that has never been largely implemented.  And on the flip side SMB/CIFS is a mature understood and almost universally accepted protocol.

Mac users in my experience have a propensity in my experience to feel forgotten or abused, but what this really comes down to numbers.

Even in a perfectly fair world ~10% (The Mac market share by any guess I have ever heard) of consumer RD monies would go to Mac support, this percentage could apply to multivendor protocols (and therefore benefit everyone as a matter of synergy) or it could be used to implement a very small set of vendor specific features (and 10% of an RD budget isn't going to buy a lot of heavy lifting).  I don't have numbers, but even with your perfectly fair (and unrealistic) portion, I think that the purchaseable feature set might be slim.

I don't honestly believe anyone who is seriously contemplating managing a realistic RD budget would opt for implementing vendor specific features with any sizeable portion of his (again I stress ~10%) vendor specific portion.

I also feel compelled to argue the inverse, where 90% (the non-Mac share, notable Windows and Linux) of the RD budget is going, SMB/CIFS is extremely well supported and fairly beloved.  I know college professors who teach advanced Linux classes and think that SMB/CIFS is the next best thing since sliced bread.

I do not think it is unreasonable to say that Apple's SMB/CIFS support is sub par and that they could do better using Linux's open source tools.  They are who I would personally petition as there you have the numbers on your side as now you are arguing for compatability with that ~90% market share.  While that argument fell on deaf ears in the 1990s in Cupertino, every sign has been that they are rallying behind that logic now (where did appletalk go again?).

P.S. NFS support in the 1.08 beta, while difficult to implement in the Mac OS, runs like the devil in my personal testing.  I didn't test iTunes (I don't want my library on a network attached device), but it is worth a shot.

*** Edited by Fatman because he never finishes what he starts (in this case parenthesis).

[D-Link Multimedia]

Bonjour is available for the beta firmware...we haven't forgotten you guys.

[jeremy]

P.S. NFS support in the 1.08 beta, while difficult to implement in the Mac OS, runs like the devil in my personal testing.  I didn't test iTunes (I don't want my library on a network attached device, but it is worth a shot.

I found the NFS support to be fast too, but it just froze up after an hour or two, every time!

[cyberlex7]

Hello,
Thank you for quickness.

I've seen that Bonjour is available however I installed it but it does not change anything regarding sharing capacilities of the DNS-323.
on Windows, Itunes share and mounting is so easy.
On MAC, even with bonjour, it's not possible.

[bripab007]

on Windows, Itunes share and mounting is so easy.
On MAC, even with bonjour, it's not possible.

  I'm running FW 1.06 and OS X 10.5.7, and I'm using a regular-old SMB/CIFS/Windows share on the DNS-323 for my iTunes share.  It works pretty well, typically, but OS X Finder does occasionally lose SMB connectivity, forcing a reboot to fix.

[lotech]

I'm running FW 1.06 and OS X 10.5.7, and I'm using a regular-old SMB/CIFS/Windows share on the DNS-323 for my iTunes share.  It works pretty well, typically, but OS X Finder does occasionally lose SMB connectivity, forcing a reboot to fix.

You probably don't need to do a full reboot - just relaunch finder (via Force Quit in the Apple menu). That usually fixes missing servers on the network. But yeah finder is buggy as ever at this stuff.

[bripab007]

You probably don't need to do a full reboot - just relaunch finder (via Force Quit in the Apple menu). That usually fixes missing servers on the network. But yeah finder is buggy as ever at this stuff.

Well, right, that's of course the first thing I tried the first half-a-dozen times it happened, but that doesn't work.  You can force quite/restart finder all day long, but it'll never kick-start the SMB/CIFS connection back to the DNS-323.