I am trying to setup my dads D-Link for him, an I hav jus installed Fedora 36 on his laptop… (he loves it btw) … but we cannot access the windows network… I presume if we hang the d-link off his router it wud show up there ?
Anyway two questions… I think (answers likely lead to more questions unfortunitely lol)…
1 how to setup d-link is there software or plugin for this for fedora… ?
2 how to access the windows network
Thanks and kind Regards,
Jay
PS appraoching a year on fedora… 1yr challange… almost there
He normally connects it to his router with a lan cable, an can then use it to store a backed up copies of his files… in the past he has accessed it from connecting it directly to his laptop via Lan cable also…
Neither is working at present. (I think) when he connects it to the router via the Lan cable it is normally accessible from the home network (windows network? )… in Fedora Networks we can see a “windows network” but we cannot access it.
The D-Link Nas Drive came with an installation CD but it is for windows… I wonder is there a linux installation package or software available for it ?
I will hav a go at Samba later…
You asked “How is the dns-320 accessed? webpage? ssh cli?” I’m afraid I have no idea is the answer, I will try to learn and find out though… he said he installed software to make it work. I hav no experience with these nas drives… so all help is greatly appreciated.
You have serveral issues you probably want to take care of,
DNS-320 is EoL since a long time ago, the software is also ancient and that also includes Samba so be sure to disable any kind of “remote/cloud functionality” or even better disable Internet access completely using your router/gateway. The hardware is very slow so don’t expect by any means “good performance”. Your best bet is to use NFS for Linux clients, it’s going to be much more stable than SMB (or CIFS). Unless you’re using the RAID feature I’d suggest that you move to more capable hardware be it another prebuilt NAS or a SBC of some kind.
You most likely have a Web Interface available for configuration.
Thank you for your response… I have to agree with you that throwing it into the rubbish bin does sound like an excellent solution to me right now also … but unfortunately that will not be an option (yet anyway)… My Father has recently purchased a replacement drive for it and installed it into it… I think the machine may have re-built the mirror set… but wont know until we can access it an see whats what…
He has a load of stuff backed up on the other drive (both now ?) an cannot recall even whats there at this point but most likely family pics/vids etc… speed is not an issue if we can just get the thing to work it wud be great…
Thank you for your information… I will try to keep climbing up this learning curve that is Linux lol… it seams fun now but to be honest it wasn’t earlier, troubleshooting on the ph was a nightmare…
The web access sounds promising I can maybe try figure out what IP it’s getting or allocate it a static maybe… then take it from there…
… but unfortunately that will not be an option (yet anyway)… My Father has recently purchased a replacement drive for it and installed it into it… I think the machine may have re-built the mirror set… but wont know until we can access it an see whats what…