Category: Synology

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my Synology DiskStation now functions as a NAS to my entire I.T. landscape including Mac OS X, Windows, and NFS

Nov 26, 2014

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in Synology, VirtualBox

http://linux.die.net/man/5/exports – /etc/exports Actually (as you might remember) there is not just one Synology DiskStation (AKA NAS) here, but three of them – you will find more information here on the blog, if you follow category Synology or NAS. So I am referring to my “primary” NAS here. NFS is the most recent achievement, and…

using a Synology DiskStation as an NFS4 server – client is an openSUSE in a virtual machine

Nov 26, 2014

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Facts (smile!): the Synology DSM NFS server keeps its “mount information files” (etab, rmtab, …) at /var/lib/nfs/rmtab as opposed to /etc, where they “usually” go make sure, that /var/lib/nfs/rmtab exists, otherwise you will find ongoing complaints in /var/log/messages; a “touch …/rmtab” will do … “Last resort” resp. “desaster” suggestions – they should always only be of temporary…

my NAS currently experiences a massive SSH login attack – I do have a couple of IP addresses, but which provider owns them?

Nov 21, 2014

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103.41.124.48 103.41.124.32 103.41.124.35 103.41.124.38 103.41.124.39 103.41.124.17 103.41.124.55 103.41.124.27 103.41.124.14 … – the attack ist still ongoing … All of them got automatically blocked forever, but still … And Synology provides me with no means to export a full machine-readable list of all the IP-addresses, that my NAS keeps as blocked. That’s actually rather sad.

Synology NAS ssh access – all of a sudden one of the computers on my LAN wasn’t able to log in again

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As I found out after quite some investigating and speculating, I ran into the NAS’s “auto block” capability. I had no idea I had logged into it a couple of times unsuccessfully, but that must have been it. As I was able to redisplay, I had tried to log in a couple of times and…

the Synology DSM / NAS “auto block” feature, its “block list”, and the missing “export” capability – pls add it soon!

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Today I looked into my NAS’s block list, and it had 1280 entries. The “DSM” does not allow me to export that list. So I am not able to run evaluations on that list, I can not apply “business / data intelligence” on that list, and I am also not able to relate the attackers’…

Synology NAS ssh access – “hardware accelerated ciphers”

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In the Control Panel within the area “Terminal & SNMP” there is now a checkbox labeled “Only use hardware accelerated ciphers“. But only my DS115j has this checkbox, my DS112+ and my DS213+ don’t have it. I have no idea, for how long this difference has been effective. Maybe from when I started using the DS115j – it’s the most recently…

Synology DSM desktop: removed everything unnecessary today

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What is left? Package Center (it would show the number of packages to be updated) Control Panel (it would show necessary DSM updates, I think) Widgets: Recent Logs, System Health, Resource Monitor I can reach more Desktop item through the “Main Menu” AKA “Start button” on the top left.

Synology DSM update settings: no, I must not be forced to download updates automatically

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