This could be a handy tool if you are a Windows Mobile user and subscribe to Netflix.

Screenshot below. Download is here. It works on storage card as well (in addition to main memory)

梁羽生（1924年3月22日—2009年1月22日）

脑中首先跳出的是少年时读他的《七剑下天山》，迄今仍念念不忘的开篇词：

笑江湖浪迹十年游，空负少年头。对铜驼巷陌，吟情渺渺，心事悠悠！酒冷诗残梦断，南国正清秋。把剑凄然望，无处招归舟。

明日天涯路远，问谁留楚佩，弄影中洲？数英雄儿女，俯仰古今愁。难消受灯昏罗帐，怅昙花一现恨难休！飘零惯，金戈铁马，拼葬荒丘！

“这首词是<七剑下天山>中的开篇阕词,亦是<塞外奇侠传>的结尾.是杨云骢在塞外得知纳兰明慧即将嫁作王妃时所做,词中写尽他毕生抗击清兵终究无望的愤恨茫然,还有对于与纳兰明慧一场短暂却刻骨铭心的爱恋的留恋不舍和无可奈何.”

I am a bit tired of having storage across multiple computers (then I have to keep them all powered on if I want full access), so I decided to go out and search for home NAS (Network Attached Storage) solution.

I quickly narrowed down to DNS-323 made by D-Link and NAS200 (made by Linksys), then, because of the widely available of hacks on DNS-323 (to turn it into a Linux box), I went out and bought DNS-323 with 2 SATA hard drives, 1 Terabyte each, so now I am in Terabyte age, yeah!!!

Setup the NAS with out-of-the-box functions are easy (disk RAID, FTP), but the real fun part is in the hacking. So far I have done:

1. telnet with fun_plug
2. setup SSH and deactivate telnet
3. setup web server with Lighttpd package, plus PHP support

Need to work on:

1. BitTorrent
2. eDonkey

2/3 Update: Both BitTorrent and eDonkey are now working. For BitTorrent, I used D-LINK version of binary, while for eDonkey I used MLDonkey (http://www.shadowandy.net/2009/01/mldonkey-297.htm). It took me a while to successfully configure MLDonkey, because the default port 6881 happens to be occupied by DLINK version of BitTorrent, but once that's discovered, the fix is easy.

The whole hack process was fun, it reminds me my old days with Linux.

2/4 Update:

I added web interface to MLDonkey (original 原创) so I can remotely access MLDonkey on DNS-323 from anywhere on internet and initiate download (totally get away from PCs)

2/6 Update:

1. Enabled SSH tunnel (through my router) into that box so I am in full control of it without any home PC when I am away from home. I have found it very useful that I can move files to none-shared folder in MLDonkey after the download completes, for obvious reason.

2. upgraded the network in my study room from 100M to Gigabit Ethernet, to take the full advantage of Gigabit port on DNS-323

2/10 Update:

Upgraded NIC on main desktop and laptop to 1Gigabit so now I have 3 computers interconnected at giga speed

3/15 Update:

Installed and configured TwonkyMedia server 4.4.11 (specific for DNS-323). With that, I am now able to use my PS3 to play media files (video, audio, and photos) on DNS-323. Although the XBMC running on my old XBOX handles media files very well (see my old blog post http://home.pdafans.com/space.php?uid=171206&do=blog&id=4976) and talks to SMB with no problem, PS3 is much more powerful media player and should be the choice for future high definition, high density video files  (Blu-ray), that’ll be a separate post once I figure out all details with TwonkyMedia.

3/17 Update:

Now NAS is my central file server, I didn’t discard my old PC-based file server which has a decent amount of spaces (a couple of hundred Gigabyte) on its IDE-based hard drive. So I installed a backup software called SecondCopy to backup my important files from NAS to that old box weekly.

You may say, hey, DNS-323 has the function of RAID-0 so why don’t you set up a mirror so you have a copy always available on that device? Remember, mirror, or RAID-0 is for redundancy, not backup. It is always safe to have a backup, especially offsite, for your important documents.