WhyBuy bought...

[WhyBuy]

I've been on the forums and figuring out the bits and bobs with my TS-109pro.

I'm impressed.

Impressed enough that I'm going to take a shot at setting up linux on my old GX280.

Things I've got going thus far:

Firmware update to 1.1.3
Itunes server and Itunes running on the network - Damn it takes forever to update 12,000 mp3's... Not a reflection on the 109 either... A pal has a mac mini that took three days to do it... TS-109 is doing it as a background task on the fly...

Download station, flawless.
Telnet, flawless and permissioned. Lovely.
Dedicated user accounts and shares. Very nice.
Remote services from work, wireless access and home. Quite lovely.


This "toy" is hardly that and all my friends who haven't got one are looking at what I can do with it and just kind of scratching their heads...

I'm happy at this point.

I'll probably try the firmware upgrade when the Itunes stuff stabalizes a bit...

Oh and a hint here... I think it is QNapIvan or one of the admins/support folk that put this list into another post.

"Please kindly refer to the system port table:

20 FTP
21 FTP
22 SSH
25 SMTP
80 Web Server
137 Netbios
138 Netbios
139 Netbios
443 SSL
445 SAMBA
873 Rsync
3306 MySQL
6000 System Management (TS-100, TS-101, TS-201)
8080 System Management (Default port of TS-109 & TS-209 series)
9000 TwonkyMedia
13131 Telnet
6881~6999 BitTorrent
55536~56559 Passive FTP"

If it doesn't work or you are about to go off about the machine not working might I suggest that you have a look at your router and what is enabled/ forwarded.

Amazing machine. Spend some time either RTFM or RTFF and you will easily be able to make this device do everything that is advertised and probably a bit more...

I'm happy and getting happier by the moment!

[QNAPIvan]

Dear WhyBuy:
Welcome to join QNAP Forum

happy new year~~

Cheers,

[WhyBuy]

Thanks for the wishes.

Happy New Year to you and yours also.

Now on to the negative.

Itunes. Is anyone at QNAP going to own the fact that ITunes is not working as a client to a server but merely as a share on the NAS?

I could do this much more easily and without all the file pickyness of itunes with so far, VLC, Winamp, Media Player Classic...

While typing this I have got lamp files and mp4 playing in WMP...

C'mon guys, admit that you only have partial and not very reliable functionality in ITunes...