NAS and Media Streaming issue 1

[LittlBUGer]

Hello. Though I read several reviews and did 'some' research before I purchased anything, I was a bit too foolish and quick to do so. What I mean is, I recently purchased a Ximeta (or Klegg) NetDisk NDAS 500GB external drive as well as a D-Link DSM-520 Wireless media receiver. My intentions were to connect the 500GB NAS to my network and put a bunch of movies, music, and photos on it and wireless stream those to the DSM-520 which would be connected to my TV. It was only until after I received the NAS that I noticed it wasn't media streaming capable nor was it even IP capable. I have to install software on my PC to even be able to see the drive (and I wanted to bypass using my PC altogether for the actual streaming). I guess the only bright side is that the NAS also has a USB port that I could use.

I am wondering if there is a way that anyone knows about that I could use my current setup (NAS with Ethernet and USB, DSM-520, Linksys wireless router) to actually make things work as I want, or would there at least be a way where I could purchase some sort of adapter or some other device to help make it all work? I can't seem to find any viable solutions yet. Thanks for your help.

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[wahnula]

Ouch. From my readings it's probably best to cut your losses and return the NAS if possible and take the restocking fee hit. Then you can buy a streaming media NAS or look into Windows home Server...that's probably where I'm headed for a future NAS build...once someone figures out a way to get my DirecTv to record to PC. IR blasters are too clumsy, I want something I can slip my DirecTV access card into and that's that.

Tony

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[Nelviticus]

Not without buying some extra kit, but depending on how technically able you are you might not have to spend too much money.

Linksys make a device (or used to: you should be able to get them cheap second-hand) called the NSLU2, aka the Slug. This is a tiny thing that can share USB drives over a network. You can re-flash the firmware with a customised version called Unslung which lets you add various optional things like TwonkyVision which turns it into a UPnP media server.

The Slug has two USB ports and an ethernet port so if you went down this route you could cheaply add another USB hard drive later.

Re-flashing the firmware and adding packages is fairly easy - I managed to do it and I'm an idiot.

Nelviticus

 

[LittlBUGer]

Yes, I was actually thinking about getting the NSLU2 or some other similar device, though it seems the only other one widely used is the DLink version which doesn't appear to be that great. I have no problems flashing the drive and such, I'm an Administrator and programmer and have been forever so I mess with things all the time. I was just worried about NTFS support and how well it works with USB drives, as far as speed and such. Though I didn't know there was something I could program it with to make it stream media, so that's good to know. Since I don't wish to send the drive back and I have another USB external drive lying around, I might just get the NSLU2 as long as it will work. Thanks for the helpful info.

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