Commands to check DNS-323 health status

The following are some important set of command that I frequently use to check things in my fun-plug enabled DNS-323 NAS:

Check temperature: temperature g 0

Check fanspeed: fanspeed g

Check disk spinning status: dns323-spindown

check torrent status: transmission-remote -l

Mount samba cifs drive to DNS-323

This is the issue that take me the longest to solve. For almost more than 6 months (close to a year i think), I just can not make my DNS-323 fun_plug to mount network drive (samba). I did refer to the DNS-323 forum and strictly follow all the instruction but to no success at all.

Today, I received a notification mail from the discussion thread in the forum and one guy (kennethxu) wrote there that he successfully managed to mount the samba drive (his shared drive in his computer) to the DNS-323 fun_plug file system.

This feature is very important for me and I believe to other DNS-323 users. With any samba drive mounted to the fun_plug, we can backup, copy between the mounted samba drive and DNS-323 hard drives. For me I need this feature so that I can copy all my completed torrents from DNS-323 to another hard drive (which is actually a media player which serve a TV recorder and media player to LCD screen) located in my living room.

Follow to following steps:

1. Download the cifs.1.50.ko from the thread or click HERE
2. Use the following command:

insmod cifs.1.50.ko
mkdir /mnt/sharename
mount -t cifs //windowspcname/sharename /mnt/sharename -o username=windows-login-name,password=windows-login-password

So now you may try to list the file inside the newly mounted drive using:

ls /mnt/sharename

What a big relief, so I have no excuse to buy any new NAS now

This really make D-Link DNS-323 as the world best home Network Attached Storage (NAS). But only with fun_plug hack.

Happy Farther’s Day..

 

The best part in my world..reside in those two little's heart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"bABa..hEpi fArThEr'S dAy"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"1..2..3...sErAnG..!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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D-Link DGS-1005D Gigabit Switch

I recently bought D-Link DGS-1005D Gigabit Switch since I need to rearrange my home network configuration. I need to place my D-Link DIR-655 Gigabit Wireless N router closer to my LG 32″ LCD TV since the phone line for my DSL and hence my DSL modem is located there as well.  The reason is I am waiting to buy HDD Network HDMI Multimedia Player/Recorder. More on that later when the device arrives.

So I need another new switch/hub with Gigabit capability so that both my Desktop (Acer Aspire M1201) and my NAS DNS-323 can continue to use their Gigabit capability.

I managed to buy this switch pretty cheap, almost half of the original market price.

#2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)

I encountered this error message when I am trying to run phpmyadmin after relentless and countless install/reinstall of php and mysql in my DNS-323 NAS. Even a test page containing standard mysql command also did not appear at all in the browser.

At last from my reading HERE (which troubleshoot all kind of error leading the above error message), I managed to discover what went wrong.

The installation of mysql in my NAS involve this my.conf file kept in /ffp/etc. In the file, the default installation give the following:

At line 829

mysql.default_socket = /ffp/var/mysql.sock

It definitely miss a subfolder after the /var which is run. So I just edit the line to become:

mysql.default_socket = /ffp/var/run/mysql.sock

After that my phpmyadmin run perfectly.