11.18
I just bought a new NAS System, which should act as a mass storage for my DBOX and for everything, which doesn’t belong to general data. ;) Another reason for going in this direction is also reduced power consumption. Finally I have no pc boxes anymore. :)
I found a relative cheap version for around 53 Euro. The Fantec LD-M35NU2-2 is based on the RDC2882. It’s a so called System-on-Chip Design.
The features of the LanDisk seems very promising at the beginning. Simple configuration via a web frontend, exports of the hdd filesystem via CIFS (SMB) and FTP. Easy access controls based on user and groups.
And now the drawbacks…
- if the box is behind a router, which does NAT, its depends more on luck that you can get this box to work properly
- SMB isn’t working from Linux (BSD untested ATM)
- FTP unusable if you want passive ftp
I got this box working behind an ASUS WL500-G, which is running OpenWRT. My DBOX is running a custom version of the well known linux images, which can be found on the internet. If I tried to mount an SMB share the process simply hangs, but is still killable so that I don’t need to reboot on every unsuccessfull try. ;)
To mount a share via ftp, follow this example:
# insmod lufs # lufsmount ftpfs://dbox:password@192.168.10.250/dbox -o ftpactive
The lufs kernel module doesn’t get automatically loaded so it must be loaded by hand. The mount command is self-explanatory, but is very important that you specify “ftpactive”, otherwise it will not work and the process just hangs.
The installed Linux version on the DBOX uses a very striped down versions of the init scripts and I haven’t had time yet to investigate where modules can be loaded automatically at boot time.
Maybe it whould worse a try to check out fuse on the box, but I don’t have the time at the moment to do so.
I had done some test recordings, some were direct and some were timed recordings and all got properly recorded.
After some hours of frustrating tryouts everything is working fine now, but if someone is willing to spent more money on a NAS system. Save yourself time… ;)
