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I just love the fact that all you Apple fan boys are complaining to Buffalo that Apple changed the AFP protocol completely and now NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, now works with AFP. Here's the thing. If you don't like how long Buffalo is taking to put out a firmware update to make their stuff work then try and go out and find another raided system that will work with Lion's version with AFP. Once you can't find anything but Apples own stuff then you come back in here and apologize to these nice people at Buffalo as I'm sure they are working to get this updated. But see you 5% of people use this device are Mac people the rest of the world it still works for. So don't really expect them to jump through hoops just for the almighty Apple because the Steve Jobs crew decided to make a change that breaks absolutely everything. And before you try to go off on me I do own 3 Macs.
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I just understand how the world works and know that in due time there will be a fix for this. The same thing happened in the Windows world when 7 came out. All kinds of stuff stopped working correctly and it just took some time to get everyone on the same page.
So in closing what I'm say to Buffalo is thanks for all your hard work and I'm sure that you have something coming that will fix this. It's people like this supersheep dude that puts a bad taste in my mouth as an Apple user. Of course another Apple product is going to work, it's made by the same company and if you don't see the big picture here then you are a fool yourself.
This is how Apple gets you to buy their products. Make a change that will make you go out a buy another Apple product because its the only thing that works. If you showed a little more patience then you wouldn't be lining Steve's pockets with your money. But as I called you in the beginning you fan boys just gotta have your Apple products so good luck with that. OH and BTW just change your protocol to smb:// sure it takes longer but why are you sitting there watching a time machine back up run?
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Do it in the off hours instead. I have been having the same problem since I updated to Lion yesterday.
Luckily, from reading all of the posts (mostly complaining), I started doing a little more searching, and it appears that Aaron Thorne is pretty knowledgeable and has come up with the solution. His terminal command sequence worked like a champ for me, and I'm back in business. Quote from Aaron: ' If you are lucky enough to be using OS X Lion Developer Preview and you have a NAS drive, you will most likely come across a problem trying to connect to it. Ok the issue is that i tried to access my Buffalo LinkStation over AFP with OS X LION Beta 1 and got a error message like this one above. I couldn’t login with a registered user on my Buffalo LinkStation. The guest account worked fine but no chance with a registered one. So i found a solution and explanation at the.
Apple disables support for the “DHCAST128? In OS X 10.7 LION, which is commonly used by NAS boxes. Apple thinks is it insufficiently secure. So all the Vendors must work with Apple for Lion compatibility. To turn on “DHCAST128? Support please do the following: ' The rest can be seen here.? I am using a Buffalo Linkstations LS-WTGL/R1-V3 F/W 3.09 I suggest that you cut and paste the commands rather than type them.
Also, make sure you reboot each time he tells you to. Happy Buffalo NAS fixing with NO FIRMWARE UPGRADE REQUIRED!!!!!! Given Buffalo's complete complancy and utter lack of customer support on this issue, I'm trying to take that resolution into my own hands. Has anyone tried to hack an LS-QL R5 on their own? I'm not a Linux guru, but was able to telnet into the device (I'm thinking warranty doesn't matter much at this point:). Based on what I've read, the fix would involve upgrading the box to current version of netatalk that supports DHX2 (I believe this is netatalk 2.2).
Haven't been able to figure out how to accomplish this on my own, but wondering if anyoneone on the forum with stron linux skills has attempted it? Buffalo - you can definitely add me to the list of customer's you've lost as well, and I have already begun to tell others to steer clear of your brand due to this event (in hindsight, you should determine that fixing the issue would have cost you a lot less.). TimS: I have upgraded my linkstation mini to netatalk 2.2. I assume the steps are the same for your model in principle. I don't have time to write down detailed instructions but it is not too complicated:. open the device for telnet with acpcommander. google for 'optware'.
It is a addon to a couple of ARM-based linux devices like the linkstation. It allows you to install extension packages with the ipkg command and it has precompiled binaries for i.e netatalk. There are a couple of guides on the net that explain how to bootstrap optware on a linkstation. use ipkg to install netatalk and avahi (that is a bonjour package). disable the original netatalk and bonjour of the linkstation (remove bootstrap scripts in /etc/init.rd). create your own startsripts for the new netatalk and avahi in /opt/etc/init.rd. configure netatalk and avahi, there are guides for this on the net.
at the end I had to replace the precompiled authentication modules for netatalk with the linkstation original ones, because they did not access the same user database and I could not authenticate at all, only as anonymous. Therefore I still cannot run DHX2, but you do not need it, you can change a lion setting to allow the old authentication modules (search Apples support documents). Now time machine works again and the rest of the linkstation works as before (WOL, web interface) Took me 3 evenings.
I have used the Linkstation torrent client for a long time, but it has stopped working. I thought it was an issue with my Virgin Media hub as I changed to the new VMDG280 (hate that hub) but the Virgin support stated that the Linkstation client is now blocked by many trackers. I got the same advice from the Buffalo forums and have been advised to install another client, but that looks far more complex than it sounds on these NAS. Still not convinced the detail above is actually the problem - anyone got theirs working at the moment? It does seem complex at first, but there are step by step instructions on how to do it. The hardest part is installing IPKG as you have a long command line to enter, but the nas-central site makes it look very easy.
I felt it was complex when I did it, since then I've learned a lot about the Linkstation, even recovering it when I trashed the OS by accident. What you will find is that Transmission is FAST and works with lots of different BT Clients not just Transmission. IT has a web based Gui, so you point your browser to and you can then manage all your torrents from there.