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[defilm]

The DNS323 works fine with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard mounting shares just like Windows does...
mount smb:/dns323/Volume_1 , and smb_/dns323/Volume_1/Public .  However when I upgraded to
Snow Leopard 64 Bit OS, the DNS323 DOES NOT mount using the same commands.  Glad Apple
has Genius support, and they sent me a utility that documents all SMB internals @ Debug level and
takes network traces, zips it all up and sends it off to Apple engineering support.

I was somewhat shocked when after 3 days they were still working on it. A full 7 business days
later (which is rare), Apples engineering team that specializes in AFS/NFS/SMB, Bonjour, e.g.
all network based disk protocols advised me that the problem is with the way Dlink implemented
shares, and the inability to mount was due to Dlink not being compliant with SMB protocol.

I admit I was skeptical, but I have been looking for a Raid 5 unit, and purchased a Thus
N4100PRO 4 Bay unit, dropped in 4 2.0TB drives and configured them in RAID10 mode.
Sure enough I can mount shares with my Macbook running Leopard 10.5.2, and my Macbook
pro runing Snow Leopard 10.6.1.

So I have to wonder what the issue is.  I could see from the trace they sent me that the
smb mount actually times out with no response from the DNS323.  Anyone experienced
the DNS323 becoming a door stop using Snow Leopard 10.6.1?

I am hoping DLINK will look in to this , but my previous experiences with DLINK of course
is "Don't bother".  I look to the user community to see how many people are having the
same problem.  Since I doubt I can get DLINK to look at this, I will likely format the drives
and connect it to my PVR system that is running Windows XP Pro. I suspect Dlink is
comfortable with XP by now.  I guess Dlink will always be a Microsoft company...
I use Windows also as I am no Mac lover, but on a Mac I can run their easy to use
Coco interface, Xwindows and Linux programs, and run Windows on a hypervisor all
at the same time. With vmware Fusion you can't tell which window is which operating
system.  Flexibility is what I get...  I have no love for Steve Jobs.  When you move to
Mac's you have problems just like PC's... the only difference is the crash screen is a
different color...

Thanks for any assistance.  Dlink India calls were worthless.  it is like they never heard
of Apple there...

[bripab007]

This has been discussed a bit.  D-Link has fixed their SMB implementation in the next firmware version.  Many of us Snow Leopard users have already been running FW version 1.08b5 for a while now, and it works fine.

[dmnc]

If you don't want to run beta firmware (I'm at 1.06 and can confirm that this works there, at least), for some reason Snow Leopard will let you log in if your password is numbers only. 0..9, nothing else.

[defilm]

This has been discussed a bit.  D-Link has fixed their SMB implementation in the next firmware version.  Many of us Snow Leopard users have already been running FW version 1.08b5 for a while now, and it works fine.

Excellent!  Thanks so much!   

[Robocub]

I am able to mount my DNS-323 shares on my iMac running Snow Leopard (10.6.2), HOWEVER, even though the shares mount, I am unable to copy files to/from the mounted SMB shares. The only fix is for me to reboot my iMac.

[defilm]

Robocub,

This thread is kind of old as this has been resolved with the 1.0.8 beta.
Take note if your fine systems are NTFS.  Note that you can not write NTFS
file systems, but I suspect you know this...