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ReadyNAS with Canon ZoomBrowser EX
I would say readyNAS performed quite well, as a photography enthusiast I work with many DSLR cameras such as the Canon 350D, 30D, 1Ds and sometimes Nikon D70. For nearly everything I take i take in RAW, After just one year i filled my enough to want a NAS. I got the ReadyNAS NV as the size, functions was nice even with the a price tag above buffalo's cheap terrastation. Having over 60GB of RAW photos just after one year (more as time goes on, and when i bother to scan my MANY rolls of film) i needed a NAS that was flexible and compatible enough to work with software such as Canon ZoomBrowser EX, Picasa dosnt work with RAW nicely.
It turns out readyNAS does its Job, I mapped the share as a network drive and Zoombrowser recognizes it nicely. The slightly bad point is my Wireless Router dosnt support Gigabit lan (my PC does, and ready nas does but my PC is in a different room to my Router and NAS. what a pain), other then that its smooth sailing. Loading time is still on the slow side (i cant blame that since im the one using Megabit lan). If im sorting or editing 8-11 megapixel RAW's i still copy them on my harddrive before hand and not edit them straight off the readyNAS.
The only REAL problem i have is the basic FTP and HTTP/S functions, and when i mean basic it really is Basic. Having done loads of event photography for various organizations loads of people regularly ask for photos, I would like to be able to set permissions and users/groups to just be able to "access" a certain sub-folder in the share with the ability to set attributes as "read-only/read and write/etc". In a way i could do that to a certain extend with the ReadyNAS nv but its not ideal and at most times quite a pain. The thing i do now is i have Bulletproof FTP server running handling all my FTP user/group allocations and with the "photos" Share mapped as a network drive it works just like any other directory. But the downside with that is my computer has to be on, i have thought of converting a old scrap pc somewhere into running ubuntu server, or depending on how scrappy a lighter version of linux..but ultimately it would be still a waste of power resources.
The new "Power Management" options are sweet but that PSU fan still winds me up, makes me want to get a silence kit. Obviously 1TB is enough storage for any photographer out there, but it does fill up pretty fast with all my DVD (vob) rips and CD (wave) rips. For a photographer, or MOST people the photos are more important then some dvd you brought in the store the other day so burning of DVD's is still just important so far. And i thought my NAS would make Burning another DVD obsolete.
One small request at the end, why not try make a ReadyNAS with the cheaper 3.5" HDDs? I would definitely go for a cheaper but slightly larger thing :P. I tend to turn my NAS off when i don't use it since the idle mode isnt exactly the best, i would like a "standby" mode as well where it turns off everything but the ram much like how windows does standby and where this "standby" mode could be interrupted as soon as it detects a incoming packet or TCP request much like How Wake-On-Lan works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN.
But overall the readynas is a sweet product, you made me happy. I'll look forward to your next products.
Anyone think the option of being able to connect the readynas to a pc or laptop by a usb 2 or firewire so it acts like a BIG external hard disk a nice option as well?
It turns out readyNAS does its Job, I mapped the share as a network drive and Zoombrowser recognizes it nicely. The slightly bad point is my Wireless Router dosnt support Gigabit lan (my PC does, and ready nas does but my PC is in a different room to my Router and NAS. what a pain), other then that its smooth sailing. Loading time is still on the slow side (i cant blame that since im the one using Megabit lan). If im sorting or editing 8-11 megapixel RAW's i still copy them on my harddrive before hand and not edit them straight off the readyNAS.
The only REAL problem i have is the basic FTP and HTTP/S functions, and when i mean basic it really is Basic. Having done loads of event photography for various organizations loads of people regularly ask for photos, I would like to be able to set permissions and users/groups to just be able to "access" a certain sub-folder in the share with the ability to set attributes as "read-only/read and write/etc". In a way i could do that to a certain extend with the ReadyNAS nv but its not ideal and at most times quite a pain. The thing i do now is i have Bulletproof FTP server running handling all my FTP user/group allocations and with the "photos" Share mapped as a network drive it works just like any other directory. But the downside with that is my computer has to be on, i have thought of converting a old scrap pc somewhere into running ubuntu server, or depending on how scrappy a lighter version of linux..but ultimately it would be still a waste of power resources.
The new "Power Management" options are sweet but that PSU fan still winds me up, makes me want to get a silence kit. Obviously 1TB is enough storage for any photographer out there, but it does fill up pretty fast with all my DVD (vob) rips and CD (wave) rips. For a photographer, or MOST people the photos are more important then some dvd you brought in the store the other day so burning of DVD's is still just important so far. And i thought my NAS would make Burning another DVD obsolete.
One small request at the end, why not try make a ReadyNAS with the cheaper 3.5" HDDs? I would definitely go for a cheaper but slightly larger thing :P. I tend to turn my NAS off when i don't use it since the idle mode isnt exactly the best, i would like a "standby" mode as well where it turns off everything but the ram much like how windows does standby and where this "standby" mode could be interrupted as soon as it detects a incoming packet or TCP request much like How Wake-On-Lan works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN.
But overall the readynas is a sweet product, you made me happy. I'll look forward to your next products.
Anyone think the option of being able to connect the readynas to a pc or laptop by a usb 2 or firewire so it acts like a BIG external hard disk a nice option as well?
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mizts wrote: Try this with version 6.1.1.21 (free upgrade):
Close ZoombrowserEx if running.
Make a backup of zblocalvolumedevice.dll in the ZoomBrowser Ex\Program folder.
Then open zblocalvolumedevice.dll with a hex editor (for example VXI32).
Search for the sequence 83 CO FE 83 F8 01 and in each case replace the final 01 with 03.
Save the change, restart ZoomBrowserEx, see if network drive magically no longer protected.
Bump for a "WOW!!"... I was having the same problem (images on ReadyNAS were marked as "protected" when viewed from ZoomBrowser), and this fixed the problem in less than a minute! Fantastic!- Brilliant! It seems to work so far. ZoomBrowser is now able to edit photos and directories on my ReadyNAS. Thank you!
Now, is there any similar magic available for Canon's CameraWindow software? Although ZoomBrowser works now, I can't download my pictures from the camera directly to the ReadyNAS.
Thanks in advance! - Actually, upon further review, the fix only lets me do some things with directories (like rename them), but it doesn't let me delete pictures, or save edited pictures. Hmmm.... Wrote to Canon about CameraWindow, but so far they are of no help.
- I too was very frustrated by this, and was on the verge of giving up when I thought that a symbolic link might be the solution - and it was, for me at least.
In Windows 7 (and, I understand, Windows Vista, but not, I understand, Windows XP), plus no doubt in other operating systems, you can create a symbolic link, which is like a shortcut to another folder but which appears like a subfolder.
I did the following in Windows 7:
1. Open a Command Prompt with administrator rights (in the Accessories menu, right-click on Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator').
2. Navigate to the folder you want your shortcut to be in. (I went to c:\Users\Luphen\Pictures)
3. type the following:
mklink /d "NAS photos" "\\network path"
where 'NAS photos' is the name you'd like the folder to appear as on your PC, and 'network path' is the full network path to the relevant folder on the NAS (or other PC).
4. That's it.
Zoombrowser is now happy to see photos in c:\users\luphen\pictures\nas photos and thinks that they are on the local drive, so allows deletion, editing, etc. - great job it works perfectly. :o :o :o :o
but for "ZoomBrowser EX Memory Card Utility" that does not work.
what does it do for ZoomBrowser EX Memory Card Utility .... and the NAS ? - I hope someone can help with this problem, very similar. I am using Zoom Browser EX MCU to actually select and download images from my cards. I have created the symlink and can see it from within Windows 7 explorer but ZBMCU does not see it as an existing path to download to... Any one have any ideas?
Canon ZoomBrowser EX MemoryCard Utility version 1.6.0.15
Windows 7 Pro X64
Thanks All.
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