Category: Synology

  • how to access YOUR Synology router “RT1900ac”? as router.synology.com?

    That’s what Synology actually suggests: access your router as router.synology.com. Doesn’t that mean, it’s under control of Synology?! Looks like, doesn’t it?!! I don’t really like that. It also has a hardwired 192.___ address (to be clarified!!!). I am currently running my RT1900ac between my laptop and my true router, an AVM FRITZ!Box. The RT1900ac publishes…

  • Synology “Note Station” – no more trouble over price and space

    DiskStation Manager offers a library of apps, a cost-free cloud service, a complete multimedia platform, powerful Synology Hybrid RAID and extensive virtualization support. https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/6.0/productivity#noteStation https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Network/How_to_migrate_Evernote_notebooks_to_Note_Station This is just another service running on my Diskstation at home, coming out of the box and quite, quite handy.

  • file extension NSX – Synology DiskStation Manager exported note

    http://www.file-extensions.org/nsx-file-extension-synology-diskstation-manager-exported-note actually a .zip file containing JSON files – I format them nicely through jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ the JSON comes with attributes ctime and mtime in seconds, “that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970, not counting leap seconds“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time – AKA POSIX time or Epoch time as the JSON syntax does…

  • my Jenkins start-up script works with Java7 – but not with Java8

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28665783/starting-https-jenkins-server-on-127-0-0-1 https://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/documentation/Installing+and+Configuring+Jenkins – I will have to look into the description of httpsKeyStore etc, once I will decide to run Jenkins using Java8 instead of Java7 My Synology Diskstation DS713+ has successfully hosted Jenkins1 resp. Jenkins2 for several months now. Today I found, there is a Java8 “package” available for my Synology Diskstation DS713+. I installed it.…

  • Synology DiskStation DS216+

    https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS216+ https://www.synology.com/en-global/company/news/article/Synology_Announces_DS216plus Now even their SOHO servers (plural?!?) are Intel based. And remember: they all run Linux. Together that means you can run there “any” Linux executable — keeping in mind there may be dependencies on libraries to be linked dynamically.

  • Synology router “RT1900ac” as an SSH server

    How to enable SSH access for user accounts? Log in as root; within /etc/passwd change the default shell entries of the resp. user accounts from /sbin/nologin to /bin/ash. The resp. user accounts may want to have their public keys get placed in their .ssh/authorized_keys2 . Of course the firewall needs to get opened a little on…

  • Synology router “RT1900ac” as an NFS server

    https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT1900ac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System AKA NFS /etc/init/nfsd-adapter.conf – read it, and find out how to start and stop the NFS daemon – it is rather, rather simple, honestly! /etc/exports – all this is on one line in your file: /volumeUSB5/usbshare *(rw,async,no_wdelay,crossmnt,insecure,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,sec=sys,anonuid=1025,anongid=100) The /etc/fstab entry looks like this (again: all this is on one line in your file): SynologyRouter:/volumeUSB5/usbshare /media/synologyrouter nfs4…

  • Synology router “RT1900ac” – my christmas toy

    https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT1900ac cyberport had an intriguing offer: a demonstration model with a moderate discount – I couldn’t resist [2015-12-20 00:27:39] johayek@Hayek001 $ ssh root@router.synology.com BusyBox v1.16.1 (2015-10-29 15:37:59 CST) built-in shell (ash) Enter ‘help’ for a list of built-in commands. SynologyRouter> ./config.guess armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf SynologyRouter> ./config.guessJHn =config.guessJHn,0: $config_unique=>{synology_northstarplus_rt1900ac},$config_buildnumber=>{5781},$config_smallfixnumber=>{2} // … armv7l-synology-DSM5.2_5781_2 Alright … – it’s a Busybox.…

  • Java SE (“Standard Edition”) Downloads

    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads — Oracle Java SE http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javase —  Oracle Java SE Embedded (ARM …, x86) http://www.b.shuttle.de/hayek/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=Main_Page#Synology_NAS_servers:_without_DSM_Java_Manager — if the DSM does not have a “Java Manager”, … http://www.b.shuttle.de/hayek/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=Main_Page#Synology_NAS_servers:_with_DSM_Java_Manager — if the DSM has a “Java Manager”, use it! it directs you properly.

  • Synology DiskStation DS716+ – 2-bay, Intel Celeron N3150, 64-bit, Quad Core 1.6 burst to 2.08 GHz

    https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS716+ http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B0176X81SG – just the bare box, no disks – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 480 https://www.cyberport.de/synology-diskstation-ds716plus-nas-system-2-bay-3F15-2EY_222.html – just the bare box, no disks – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 444 cyberport’s bundles with 2x6TB (WD, Seagate) disks are cheaper than the ones on amazon – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 950 CPU Model: Intel Celeron N3150 CPU Architecture:…