http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Network-Storage-Link-10403083 en Sun, 19 May 2013 11:55:27 EDT Sun, 19 May 2013 11:55:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-11256718 Only Disk drives that have been formatted using the NSLU2 will be able to use the user and group permissions.

note: i am not sure if u can do backups to FAT(32) using NSLU2 util.

1>
Open a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
In the “Address” field, type in the IP Address of the NSLU2 (192.168.1.77 is the default IP address of the Network Storage Link) and then click on the GO button or hit the [Enter] key.
After doing this, the “Home” screen of the NSLU2 will appear. Click on DISK 2 (Public Data) sub-tab to access the files on the disk.

2>
Click on Start and then Run.
In the Open field, type input the \\IPADDRESS (192.168.1.77 is the default IP Address of the NSLU2) or \\Server Name. (For example: \\LKG0F818C. The server name can be found on the device’s Home page in the web-based setup utility.)
This will bring up Network Places Window (see screenshot below). ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-11256718 Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:24:22 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-11255308 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-11255308 Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:12:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-11255289 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-11255289 Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:10:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-11202673
By "device" do you mean the nslu2, or the iomega HD?

Sorry if I am being thick-headed, but I'm still not exactly sure what you are suggesting.

I'd really appreciate any additional guidance you can provide, as I'm quite deperate to get the NSLU@ working with Iomega HD. Like the other poster -- I can never even succesfully complete the format operation.

Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-11202673 Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:41:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10850936
We're in the process of updating everything to OSX, but aren't completely there yet. We were able to connect to it via our OSX box as well as access send stuff cross-platform.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10850936 Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:13:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/6-backup-job-limitation-not-an-issue-10844423 Instead of adding a job with the "Add New Job" button just use the "Modify" of an existing job.
Be sure to change the "Name" of the existing job to the name of your new job, change the settings as appropriate and when finished click"Modify" and a new job will be created without the 6 job limit. The window displaying the existing jobs becomes scrollable.
Hope this helps.
J
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There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

As the number of components in a system approaches Infinity the Mean-Time-Between-Failures approaches Zero.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/6-backup-job-limitation-not-an-issue-10844423 Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:49:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10836075 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10836075 Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:35:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10835639 said by watben58:

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Yes it is not share like yours on the network but works well connected in a computer.

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And therein the problem lies. If you don't need sharing you don't need the NSLU2. But if you do need the features it's a nice entry level appliance.
J
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There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

As the number of components in a system approaches Infinity the Mean-Time-Between-Failures approaches Zero.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10835639 Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:34:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10835356 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10835356 Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:34:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10835145 Maxtor 160GB drives (One-Touch) both USB1 and USB2.
Scheduled restart nightly at 11:30 PM to reset the clock.
Scandisk both DISK1 and DISK2 nightly at midnight.
Backup DISK1->DISK2 nightly at 1:00 am

This scenario ran well for 3 days. This morning I could not access the mapped DISK 1 drive.
The web interface showed DISK 1 as "unformatted" and DISK 2 as 100% empty (normally same percent free as DISK 1).
Log showed the scandisk had failed on DISK 1 after the scandisk on DISK 2 succeeded.

A restart of the NSLU2 got DISK 1 back online but DISK 2 (the backup drive) still showed 100% empty so all my backed up data is gone.

Not a good thing.

So did DISK 1 really have a scandisk issue? Not sure. I will backup DISK 1 to DISK 2 and try a manual scandisk on DISK 1 later but I don't think any failed DISK 1 operation should wipe out all the data on DISK 2.

J
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There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

As the number of components in a system approaches Infinity the Mean-Time-Between-Failures approaches Zero.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10835145 Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:33:08 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Are-these-speeds-normal-10835023 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Are-these-speeds-normal-10835023 Wed, 21 Jul 2004 06:52:54 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Are-these-speeds-normal-10832168
If anyone from Linksys is reading (yea, right), *please* test w/ other mfg drives and release new firmware as soon as you can, or ppl won't buy your product!!

-Chuck]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Are-these-speeds-normal-10832168 Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:24:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Are-these-speeds-normal-10831447 Running 2.3r24 firmware.
XP-Pro SP1 across the board.
2 Maxtor 160GB back end drives.
I do notice the more I beat on it the slower the clock runs. It's dropping clock ticks in the OS since a reboot gets the time back to normal.
J
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There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

As the number of components in a system approaches Infinity the Mean-Time-Between-Failures approaches Zero.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Are-these-speeds-normal-10831447 Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:51:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10829908 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10829908 Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:09:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Are-these-speeds-normal-10829768
I'm not terribly happy with the performance, but honestly I'm more worried about the read-only mode I keep hitting when copying a large file to the thing. 'tis quite annoying.

Maybe I should consider that USR 8200 instead...

-Chuck]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Are-these-speeds-normal-10829768 Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:52:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Are-these-speeds-normal-10821465
Using DU meter I average a transfer rate of 40MBit/sec Up and down, takes 10 sec to transfer 50 meg file witch is not too bad but at 100Mbit full duplex connection it would take half that (I average 80Mbit/sec from computer to computer). I see your getting the same SquareSlinky, take 5 seconds for 25mb file for me as well. I got the Ximeta NetDisk and have the NSL hook up to the WRT54G router. So is this normal? am I expecting to much? Using DU meter what do you guys get?

Also did you guys have to put a EMI core on your Ethernet cable? It's weird cause you don't put these on other Ethernet cables that go to your router or computer. what radiation is the NSL producing?

-XaN-II]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Are-these-speeds-normal-10821465 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:51:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10818019
I had such a nightmare time trying to get the VPN Router to accept just direct Windows XP vpn client connections I gave up.

If your are interested in connecting Drives to the network you might want to try the US Robotics 8200.

- It has two USB 2.0 ports and a Firewire port for external drives.
-It has the simplest VPN setup to connect users and other systems to.
- It supports an FTP site as well.
- The drives can be formatted with EXT3 or FAT

This USR solution is the only non-Linksys product I have on my network and its a gem. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10818019 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:55:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10817033
Try this. Power down the NSLU2, then power down your drive. Now power up the drive, and turn on the NSLU2. This has always cleared up the read-only problem for me whenever it's occurred.

Obviously Linksys haven't tested this NSLU2 device with any kind of large file copying or heavy use, as you and I (and several others here, too) can attest. My problem was trying to put the files back on the device that I had to move off as they wanted their own darned format (ext3 instead of FAT32 or NTFS). If they had let me use the current format of the drive, this wouldn't have even been a problem!

-Chuck]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10817033 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:54:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10815794
Anybody have a fix for thing?

Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10815794 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:36:15 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10791347
I have had no problems with file xferrs dieing at all yet.

I'm using a Netdisk (Network part only worked with windows)but it also had Usb 2.0 connectivity and works great with the NSLU2.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10791347 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:45:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10784509 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10784509 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:49:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10780382 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10780382 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:45:46 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10771011 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10771011 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:03:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10765489
»uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/···e2fs.htm

I have succesfully extracted files from my 300 GB Maxtor drive.

mvh
Kristoffer]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10765489 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:02:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762772 I hope this newer firmware is more stable... so far I'm not entirely thrilled with the device. I really don't like being forced into formatting the drive for the device - now I *have* to set up a linux box so I can get the files off should this thing die.
-Chuck]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762772 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:01:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762275
However, from my playing with the device, it does not appear (to me anyway) that this device is overly stable. I have two USB enclosures attached to the nslu2, the first being a new 250G WD drive, and the second being an 80G disk that I moved from my linux server. Just simply copying files to and from the HD's will eventually crash the nslu2. Sometimes I can copy 20-30G successfully and others it dies in the first 2-4G.

I think I need to move the enclosures back to my linux box to ensure that I didn't break something while moving the drives around...

-Dave]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762275 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:34:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762137 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762137 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:10:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762032
Where did you find these settings that you mention?

While I understand I can't do it easily, it beats not being able to use the NSLU2 device at all! :D

-Chuck]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762032 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:50:08 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762029
Interesting.... when I hooked mine up to linux, it showed these three partitions... so maybe I don't have the /etc stuff that you mention that's in partition 2.
Anything in partition 1? Doubt it but thought it worth asking.
Why this firmware won't format my drive is beyond me.:huh: It's obviously set the partitions.
-Chuck]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10762029 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:48:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10759464
I don't think you can easily partition the disk outside of the NSLU2. A number of configuration files are copied to the small partition, including passwd, group, smb configuration files, etc. There also appear to be flash configuration settings that get applied when a drive is initialized:

[harddisk]
validhd=1:0
invalidhd=0:0

Jim Buzbee
jbuzbee@nyx.net]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10759464 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:04:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10759136 Enabling telnet

It's a mult-step process to enable telnet. I'm using the latest firmware from Linksys, it may or may not work with other versions.

First, mount a NSLU2 initialized hard drive on a box that understands ext2/3 format. I use OSX, but obviously Linux would be easier. There are also drivers for windows boxes. I found that the OSX drivers only work well with firewire, not USB2.

Find the passwd file in the second ext3 partition.

Replace the encrypted password for root with the encrypted password from a know account e.g. admin. If you are not familar with the format, it's the second field delimited by colons.

Plug the drive back into the NSLU2 and fire it up.

execute the URL http :// your ip /Management/telnet.cgi

Select the option to turn on telnet

telnet in as root using the password for the known account. The passwd change appears to hold over power-cycles, but the enabling of telnet does not.

Jim Buzbee
jbuzbee@nyx.net]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10759136 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:31:59 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10758315
1 - EXT3 the main disk 78G
2 - EXT3 120M partition
3 - 56M Linux SWAP

Partition 2 has the stuff that usually is in /etc
I can tar it up and put it somewhere if you like, just let me know.

Dave]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10758315 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:01:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10758042
Thanks in advance... Dave]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10758042 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:34:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10756293
If any of you have formatted your disk on the NSLU2 device, would you care to hook it up to a linux system and tell us what the partitions are on the device? Until Linksys gets a new firmware created, I can't format my drive on the device, either, and I don't want to wait for them to come through.

Thanks.
-Chuck]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10756293 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:20:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10754178
I just bought this linksys NSLU2 device a few days ago and I found it to be extremely slow when copying larger amounts of files. If I copy a single large file, the transfer rate is as expected, but if I transfer a thousand little file (or even a hundred), a takes hours.

My plan was to move all my game files to this device, but it is currently too slow to launch any game. It takes over 10 minutes for the game to simply start up. When I launch it from a network drive on another PC, the file launches in seconds.

Is this the nature of ext3 format? Is there a way to make it read large amounts of files faster? This is way to slow; the file rate (number of small [0-32k] files it can read/write) it can handle is about 1.5 files per a second and as slow as .2 files per second.

Can it support another format, or is this just because of its slow Samba sharing server? I might have to return this if I cannot find a solution.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10754178 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:18:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10752518 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10752518 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:07:07 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10752494
»www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?s···704&sp=5

They make both 20 and 40 GIG versions.
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regards, Lou]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10752494 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:58:40 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10752183
Does anyone knows if I can use non-english file names on a NSLU2 connected USB2 hard-drive? Like hebrew file names etc.?

Thanks,
O.S.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10752183 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 05:42:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10748412 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10748412 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:06:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10747629 on my web site :

»www.batbox.org/nslu2-linux.html

Jim Buzbee
jbuzbee nyx net]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10747629 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:16:22 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10744819
Original source:

•160820248 27 Apr 05:00 snapgear-3.0.0.tar.gz

Modified source :

•30204 27 Apr 04:37 cgihtml-1.69.tar.gz
•3074827 27 Apr 03:45 e2fsprogs-1.34.tar.gz
•412314 27 Apr 04:17 libupnp-1.2.1.tar.gz
•178240 27 Apr 04:16 quota-3.01-pre7.tar.gz
•30515200 27 Apr 04:41 samba-2.2.7b-ja-1.0.tar
•40033 27 Apr 04:26 smtpclient-1.0.0.tar.gz
•128696 27 Apr 04:16 thttpd-2.23beta1.tar.gz
•38770 27 Apr 04:27 udhcp-0.9.6.tar.gz

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10744819 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:49:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10744344
Anyone able to put that source code up on an FTP site ?

Another question: Is the USB port able to power a USB hub ? (I know that you can't connect more than one drive to each port, but I have other ideas for this unit...)

-- Rod]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10744344 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 06:27:54 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10740490
I've also found a couple of hidden options for enabling telnet and remote logging. I have not yet succeeded in telneting into the box because the standard users do not get assigned a shell (/dev/null) Once I crack the root password, I'll be able to log in and poke around a bit more. I'll update my progress on my web site : »www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html

Jim Buzbee
jbuzbee nyx net]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10740490 Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:34:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10734565
Thanks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10734565 Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:25:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10709049
Yes, your Provider is Blocking the default PORT 80, thats why I recommend setting your NSLU2 to port 8081 (or 8080, or 8085) (these are unused ports). So if you set it up for 8080, you would access it with:

»IPADDRESS:8080

instead of »IPADDRESS
which is the same as
»IPADDRESS:80

because 80 is the default]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10709049 Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:35:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10709012 quote:

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Cant find any one in the UK selling this (Sob Sob)....

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Me neither, but outpost.com have the box for $85 and they will deliver to the UK for another $27, making a total of $112, or about £61 :D

I think I'm off to order it now...

FB]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10709012 Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:21:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10689995 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10689995 Sun, 04 Jul 2004 21:58:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10688223
Thanks in advance!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10688223 Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:36:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10687051 Its plenty fast. I believe it to be faster than my hd. If you have having speed problems dont blame the nslu2.
First, make sure it is negotiating 100 full if its on a fast ethernet switch. If its on a hub make sure it is negotiating 100 half or 10 half if your hub is plain jane ethernet. Most of the serious speed issues i see are caused by duplex mismatch. This is when the device such as the nslu2 and your " switch " dont negotiate the same media settings. I use a cisco switch and therefore i am able to check this by logging into the switch. If you dont negotiate the same settings then you will get abou 7-10K throughput. I have seen this happen a lot with both consumer level and pro level gear. The difference is the pro level gear ( cisco etc ) has the ability for a knowledgable person to log in and check the settings.
The linksys does use tcp/ip, it uses samba or something similar as you have to have windows file sharing. IMHO this is way better than most personal or soho nas devices as you dont have to load a driver for your OS. As long as you have client for ms windows installed you are golden.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10687051 Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:53:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10685985
I am going to buy another for my second drive this week.

I also read that it is possible to use this for file sharing over the net with port forwarding. I have not tried it yet.

The NSLU2 is working for exactly what I wanted it for.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Network-Storage-Link-10685985 Sun, 04 Jul 2004 09:57:03 EDT