Category: Synology
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OS updates / upgrades can always be a PITA – modified my .profile again to cope with Synology’s latest DSM changes
Within .profile I try to find out, where exactly (in which environment) “I” am operating. Once I know this, I can set up PATH depending on the environment. Of course on a Synology NAS based on a BusyBox with IPKG (GNU) extensions things look different to my Mac or to my OpenSUSE installations, but still:…
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sometimes my Mac fails mounting my Synology DiskStation’s filesystems: “Connection Failed”
the OS X finder shows: “Connection Failed” one of the filesystems (“home”) was mounted beforehand it seems impossible to remove that dangling mount point all three of my DiskStations seem equally concerned: DS213+, DS112+, DS115j I need to reboot the Mac in order to be able to mount any of the filesystems of the concerned DiskStation…
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what a relief, that my Synology DS115J had no hardware damage
https://www.synology.com/products/DS115j It was the firmware “only”, that had somehow experienced something strange and hard to reconstruct. The data were still on there, just the firmware set-up got to get re-established, no big deal – but I was really worried, until I knew that for sure. Of course, if I had kept all my NASs in…
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my Synology DS115J’s DSM had crashed, needed re-installing and re-setup
That’s quite annoying, but as opposed to initial announcements during the process the users’s home directories weren’t lost.
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setting up a new Synology NAS (“DiskStation”) to look and behave like an “old” one
When I set up my new DiskStation DS115j, it started with DSM5 from the beginning. My old DiskStations “obviously” came from DSM4 and got migrated to DSM5, and therefore they had different default settings. Issue: It does not have the “Control Panel” icon on the desktop initially. Category: DSM4-DSM5 migration issue. Solution: Simply go to…
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the 11 e-books I got today from O’Reilly
Downloaded through Dropbox to my Synology ^NAS: oreilly–Agile_Data_Science.20131011104838.pdf oreilly–Building_Web_Apps_with_WordPress.20140407142920.pdf oreilly–Communicating_Data_with_Tableau.20140612124036.pdf oreilly–Data_Science_at_the_Command_Line.20140626143621.pdf oreilly–Free_as_in_Freedom.20130104090715.pdf oreilly–Graph_Databases.20130612085254.pdf oreilly–IPv6_Address_Planning.20140528100600.pdf oreilly–IPv6_Essentials–3rd_Edition.20140605124939.pdf oreilly–MySQL–Cookbook–2nd_Edition.20130114120323.pdf oreilly–Python–Cookbook–3rd_Edition.20140306152041.pdf oreilly–WordPress__The_Missing_Manual–2nd_Edition.20140617133938.pdf
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my Synology NAS DS213+ suggested an update, and afterwards the web-gui is not accessable again
I can still ssh into the NAS from remote, and I just rebooted: root@DiskStation $ shutdown -r now … but https://FQDN:5001/webman is just not accessable right now. That scares me “a little”. I shall try again, as soon as I shall be attached to my home LAN in a couple of days. At least I can…
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IPKG on my Synology NAS, /etc/rc.optware, /volume1/@optware, and the /opt symlink
There are two different strategies to access /volume1/@optware through /opt: a symlink (the approach I prefer) “mount -o bind” (usually run through /etc/rc.optware) Once in a while (usually after a DSM update) the symlink “/opt” got removed and/or /etc/rc.optware already executed the “mount -o bind”. I am checking on my /opt symlink in my ~/.profile,…
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the GNU packages that I need most seriously on my Synology NAS
CAVEAT: In 2017 I started using opkg (Entware-NG) instead of ipkg (optware). This document may not be updated entirely to reflect the new circumstances. https://wiki.jochen.hayek.name/w/index.php?title=Synology_DSM – better use and maintain that article instead of this one theses are the GNU packages I seriously need on my Synology NAS (there is actually more than one …):…
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Synology: how to reset a Synology DiskStation AKA NAS
http://www.synology.com/en-uk/support/tutorials/493 http://find.synology.com/ Having in mind, what I have already tried, I think, it won’t boot in any way described above, but I will give it a try anyway. Basically: remove all disks press the reset button for 4 seconds pray, that it starts beeping