HI, I am running NS322 with TimeMachine and fileservices through AFP and SMB/CIFS for a number of Macs. Every couple of weeks the systems stops responding. First observation is Backups fail (or indicate as delayed). Cannot start Admin GUI. Server times out. Today I managed to ssh to the system (with a lot patience). Every command takes many minutes to execute (if at all). ps command shows an endless number of mDNSResponderPosix processes: ... 8266 admin       564 S N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/mDNSRespo 8268 admin       564 S N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/mDNSRespo 8307 admin       560 S N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/timemachi 8353 admin       552 S N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/timemachi 8366 admin       560 S N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/mDNSRespo 8373 admin       492 D N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/mDNSRespo 8535 admin       488 S N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/mDNSRespo 8624 admin       556 S N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/timemachi 8627 admin       580 D N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/timemachi 8629 admin       580 R N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/mDNSRespo 8649 admin       580 R N /usr/sbin/mDNSResponderPosix -f /etc/config/timemachi ... The harddisk indicators are pretty busy, so I hesitate to just power cycle. Need help! Peter ... View more

Hmm, I just tried the "Backup to external drive" feature and saved a share. So, now I am looking for the "restore" button or menu. Where is it? Anybody can guide me there, I consider backup without restore somewhat... useless. Peter NS322, FW 1.3.0 ... View more

Hi, This has happened now 3 or four times, every couple of weeks: File server stops responding. I try to check through admin web tool, but web server does time out or just shows the login page after a long waiting period. Does never respond any further. Basically this would force me to do a hardware power cycle. OK, I can still ssh into the system, so I could restart from command line. But I would rather have some advice where to look into the logs to find out the cause and fix it or have it fixed. I am using mostly AFP file service (Mac clients), some SMB/CIFS. And TimeMachine (which also stopped responding). Web server only for administration access. My linux days are long gone. I tried with /var/log/messages but that one is empty. Some files (conn.log, event.log) in /etc/logs are none-text files, so not very helpful. Every hint is welcome! Thanks Peter After reboot the logs reveal a huge number (5500+) of entries like the following: 2011-01-08 05:17:03 System 127.0.0.1 localhost [Network Service Discovery] Gateway failed. UPnP Discovery Service stopped. I was not aware I use UPnP, need to check whether I can deactivate. Anyway,  the page with the first of those messages does not display in the System Logs. Very frustrating! I consider this a bug. I can skip over the page in the logs display, change the number of entries displayed per page, but I never get to the first of the above entries to see what might  have happened right before. ... View more

I have a NS322 equipped with 2 WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 2TB disks and running with the latest firmware (1.1.0). The system performance is fine, the features (compared to QNAP) could be more, but that is a different story. The system is placed in a room which has a temperature around 26 deg. Celsius (unfortunately the only possible location, currently). Interestingly, when I start the system, it immediately after boot displays the following temperatures (all in degree Celsius): CPU 35, System 44 (!), HDD1 35, HDD2 36. Fan speed 1403. After a couple of minutes with minima load on the system the values are as follows: CPU 42, System 50 (!!), HDD1 38, HDD2 37. Fan speed 1415. Now it happens that every few minutes the fan starts speeding up to 4000+ rpm and makes an incredible noise. (Note: This is for home/small business use.) I suspect that the temp sensor for the system temperature is now well calibrated. Off by about 10 degrees. Is there any way to verify or fix this? Is this a known behaviour or is  the system defective? The "smart" fan configuration allows either a standardised config with the system temp threshold for high fan speed at 47 deg. or manual config with settings solely for the system temp. Since I suspect the system temperature a bad indicator, I would rather have the disk or CPU temperatures in a manual configuration. Thus, I am not happy with the configuration options. Any suggestions? Thanks, Peter ... View more