Comments on: Resolving Poor Mac OS X Samba Performance with D-Link’s DNS-323 NAS

By: Rich Baty

Rich Baty — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:08:26 +0000

Thanks Eric, exactly what I’m looking for…
Hoping you can explain where to edit the lines for us nOObs (a Mac version of .ini file? or CMD???)

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:48:20 +0000

Just remember to backup/make a copy of that .conf file incase you make any OS changes in the future (updates or next version…). Thanks for the SMB speed up!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:42:01 +0000

I try you command on my osx 10.5 but that dont work, speed stay slow!!

i plug my dns 323 on a gigabyte switch and plug the g5 on the gigabyte switch and speed are slow !!!!

i call d-link support and they refer me here héhéhé!!

By: Alfred Lam

Alfred Lam — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:40:55 +0000

Thanks for the hint. Applying same hint actually helped me fix a different but related problem. Windows clients connected to My Mac OS X (Tiger) samba is very slow when writing to Tiger but very fast when reading from it. Now it is very fast even for writing after applying the sysctl change

By: Serge

Serge — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:31:11 +0000

great stuff. Just got one myself, but am experiencing some issues, namely around the built in itunes server (the shared music folder only shows a very small portion of my music).
Did you have the same issues? Or did you end up installing Firefly?

Thanks

By: Eric Litman

Eric Litman — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:12:07 +0000

Right. The drives are mirrored (RAID0), and while technically not 1/2 TB en toto, for the sake of brevity it’s a reasonable shorthand. For the record, they’re not really 500GB, either. If you like, you can configure the DNS-323 to make the total combined capacity of both disks available, but you’re then left without any redundancy.

@Dan: Samba can be picky about filenames, but I believe it’s a tunable parameter. Look up the syntax/rules for smb.conf files and see if there’s something you can do to make samba more permissive on the DNS-323.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:48:15 +0000

thanks. But that response wasn’t helpful nor did I mention half… But when you make a raid and mirror the drives it gives you 500 gigs worth of space, technically under 500 not 1 terrabyte. Anyway I found out that the DNS link drive does not support macs naming structure, nor will it, as it is Linux based. But does anyone have a workaround as my mac files will not copy to it as I continue to receive file error messages “cannot copy” thanks and best D.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:16:06 +0000

Um….I’m not a math major, but I think two (2) 500 gig hard drives would make 1 terabyte, not 1/2. Unless you didn’t hook one of them up and just put it in there because it looks pretty. Last time I checked 500 + 500 = 1000. If that’s in gigabytes, well you get the picture.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:14:50 +0000

PS. by the way I am on a MAC running Tiger’s latest.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:13:56 +0000

Hi Eric
I have had nothing but issues- Set up the DNS 323 as a mirrored drive – two 500 gigabyte drives, however, all of my files wont copy. I noticed that any file with a space and or a dot will not copy to the drive for some “windows” reason. Anyway to resolve this? I surely do not want to rename ever file I have which is over at least 100,000 items of data…..

Thank you. ANy help would be most appreciated. Best Dan.

By: Steve Brown

Steve Brown — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:22:55 +0000

Hi,

I read your article on the DNS-323 with great interest as I have on with a mac on the network and file transfer rates are poor.

Your solution I’ve seen on other sites and still it remains a mystery for me, not being used to modifying these types of things. Would you do a blow by blow, dummies guide for making this modification as I would love to make this work faster with my mac.

You may consider this already to be very basic, but please I wouldn’t know where to start (Which file, how accessed etc.) Even a reference book where I could read what I’m doing would be helpful.

Please help.

Thanks in anticipation

Steve

By: gary

gary — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:19:18 +0000

Hi,
I just read your post, and I’m seriously in need of speeding this device up, however I have no idea what your talking about. Is there anyway you can explain it in laymens terms.
Thanks
Gary

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:27:54 +0000

Any ideas what the performance is like on gigabit and/or 100mbps?

By: Patri Friedman

Patri Friedman — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:40:44 +0000

Fun to do while copying files. Zooom!

Note: this seems to work in Leopard.

By: Rube

Rube — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:21:25 +0000

Holy mackerel, nice tip with that sysctl there! My Samba throughput on Leopard just went up 600%.

By: anthony

anthony — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:59:57 +0000

thank you

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:28:12 +0000

Are you sure about the “requires Windows” part? I don’t remember ever using Windows to format and install the drive. I believe I did everything through the DNS-323’s web interface. But I guess I could be mistaken.