LS-WS1.0TGL/R1 – Problems with mediaserver and web gui

[Tatonka]

   

Hello! I´ve purchased a LS-WS1.0TGL/R1EU NAS abd after a few days I´m getting more and more unsatisfied with this device. Reasons:

 

The web gui itself is very slow, my computers receive changes only after some seconds. Characters in web gui are not shown correctly, even after changing language and character/country codes. I have some Apple Macintosh as well as some Windows XP pc inside my lan and after a lot of years working with different platforms I´ve got used to accept different website displaying within different web browsers.

 

But I am very disappointed about the DLNA mediaserver. I´ve moved my iTunes library (iTunes 8.x with OS X 10.5.6) on the NAS and enabled the mediaserver to this folder but every iTunes client just receives informations about the mp3 files. No playlists, no audiobooks, no videos and so on. Not that comfortable! Beyonds this, I even can´t decide which client should have access to the mediaserver. The menu in the web gui is not reachable, no options can be chosen. Every iTunes client in my lan has full access! I will make a workaround by linking the iTunes library of my iMac to the NAs and enable sharing within iTunes 8. This means on the other side, the DLNA feature of the NAS is obsolete and I allways have to start my iMac to share the iTunes library, but doing it this way I have to ask why I bought a NAS with DLNA feature at all?

 

And last of all, the NASNavigator installed on my iMac kills the suspend to disc feature of OS X because there is an extension installed in /Library/StartupItems that keeps the iMac alive. Killing this extension means killing the auto power down feature of the NAS... So what?

 

Can anyone help me, will there be a new firmware/DLNA update soon?

 

Regards,

Peter 

 

 

[Colin137]

It sounds like you need to update the firmware of the device, then reset it to defaults.

 

The auto-power feature requires that for the NAS to stay on, the computer must stay on. 

[Tatonka]

   

My NAS device came with firmware 1.05. Where can I get an actual firmware revision? As far as I can remember I found somewhere on your websites version 1.06 with a note only to be used for american devices. Mine is an european device (Germany).

 

I understand that NASNavi as well as some kind of network driver (I believe it is called something like NASPower or something else, found in /Library/StartupItems ?) must be run to enable auto power of the NAs after a computer is shut down. My problem is that this software and driver disable the automatical suspend mode of my iMac after x minutes of being idle. I`m expecting this function should work like this: After x minutes of being idle, the iMac switches into suspend mode (suspend to harddisk) and AFTER THAT (no NASPower is running) the NAS switches as well into auto power down. But this doesn`t work and that is not amusing!