Use your DNS-323 as a media server?  Want to stream all your videos to your TV?  Cheaply?
Enter xbox media centre.  The little piece of software I used to love on my old black brick original xbox (modded, of course).  But not just for xbox anymore!  Cheap nettops are here, paving the way for super affordable […]

I’ve had my poor man’s apple time capsule running for a little over six months now, and recently Time Machine started spewing errors.
I tried running a Disk Utility “repair” on the affected volume to no avail.  Something about an “invalid sibling link”.
Apparently, it doesn’t like it when you close your Macbook’s lid too many times […]

Reader Kolonel2 to the rescue with a much-requested feature — A script that stops Transmission seeding once it’s seeded to 100%.  Sharing is caring, people!

In an earlier post, I described how to use smartctl to see if the hard disks in your NAS were affected by the recent Seagate firmware issues.  In this post I describe the steps I took to upgrade the firmware of both drives in my NAS.  Note:  This article is not specific to DNS-323 users, […]

Hey kids. So in my first post I alluded to the fact that I was going to enable the USB port on the back of the NAS for other stuff. Shame on me for not actually having gotten around to it until now.
We’re going to load a USB driver in the 323’s linux […]

Sounds like the big thing everyone is concerned with is the high rate of failure with Seagate’s 1-1.5TB drives.  There’s a firmware update available, and it will probably be a good idea to upgrade the drive firmware if you are affected.  Actually updating the firmware from two drives plugged into my 323 will be a […]

Just wanted to report that my upgrade to 1.06 was a success.  Mostly.
I downloaded the 1.06 firmware update from D-Link’s support site, unzipped the file, and then pointed the 323 web interface to it.  It flashed successfully, and everything booted up without issue.
However, I’d been having minor problems with the embedded iTunes server (mt-daapd) not […]

Hey kids, so remember my original post on dns-323 hacking?  Well I’m back at it.  In Part 1 I decided not to use RAID 1 mirroring for a couple of reasons (see section 2 — RAID or no RAID?).  Instead, what I’m doing for redundancy is selectively backing up a set of “important” data from […]

I decided to modify my dns-323 scripts to keep my media organized.
Instead of monitoring /incoming for torrents, these scripts monitor /media/movies, /media/mp3 and /media/tv.  when .torrent files are detected, they download to the appropriate /media subdirectory.  transmission stops when the files are downloaded, and any rars are unpacked.
edit 4-dec-08: I think there’s a bug with […]

from http://wiki.dns323.info/information:known_issues
Description: When using the iTunesServer WEB GUI, sometimes the GUI gets corrupted. After this, the iTunesServer WEB GUI can no longer be used.
Workaround: Telnet to the device and “cp /sys/crfs/default/mt-daapd.conf /etc/mt-daapd.conf”