Category: Synology

  • my Synology DS112+ does not function any longer

    http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS112%2B&lang=enu http://www.synology.com/en-global/products/overview/DS114 On Tuesday its blue LED started flashing continuously. I bought it on 2013-08-29, and for me this appears as a rather short life of an electronic product. I filed a problem report with Synology, and I wonder, how soon I will get a replacement. Synology do no longer  distribute DS112+, I would quite…

  • this is the advent of Synology’s NAS operating system DSM 5.0

    http://www.synology.com/en-uk/support/beta_dsm_5_0 You can already download, install, and run it. They say, it still has a few rough edges. But there is nothing, I have to worry about. Nice look. And my rsync on both (the 112+ and the 213+) still runs properly. I don’t really mind the “SMB2 vs OSX resource fork” issue. I am…

  • Synology NAS operating system DSM-5.0: live demo available

    http://www.synology.com/en-global/products/dsm_livedemo

  • the regular commands for updating your Synology IPKG installation

    # is /volume1/@optware symlinked to /opt ? $ ~/bin/sl /opt $ ln -s /volume1/@optware /opt $ export PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH If /volume1/@optware is not there at all, go to http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/Overview_on_modifying_the_Synology_Server,_bootstrap,_ipkg_etc johayek@hayekw $ ssh -A root@DiskStation DiskStationM> ipkg update DiskStationM> ipkg upgrade DiskStationM> ipkg install foobar DiskStationM> ipkg list DiskStationM> ipkg list_installed The packages I am interested in: DiskStation> ipkg…

  • installing Oracle “Java SE for Embedded” on a Synology NAS

    http://www.b.shuttle.de/hayek/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=Main_Page#Synology_NAS_servers:_without_DSM_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.   http://missilehugger.com/203/ I think, I will use his description for setting up Java on my Synology NAS (resp. NASs), so that I can run the Hibiscus Server (implemented in Java) on them. My NAS at home has plenty of Internet…

  • Hibiscus Payment Server – HBCI banking

    http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/ http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/install.php http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/support.php http://www.willuhn.de/wiki/ – I don’t see Hisbiscus Server mentioned http://www.onlinebanking-forum.de/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=33 http://www.willuhn.de/bugzilla With the hibiscus-server running on (let’s say) your current machine at port 8080 (AKA https://localhost:8080), you have a few rather useful services available: https://localhost:8080/hibiscus/ – the “Hibiscus Management Console” – this is where you enter your HBCI accounts and where you can view account…

  • Zarafa is the name of a European open source groupware application

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software) zarafa.com http://www.zarafa.com/wiki/index.php/Compiling_source_code http://www.mars-solutions.de/Knowledgebase/Raspberry_pi_zarafa http://download.zarafa.com/community/final/7.1/7.1.7-42779/sourcecode/ … Would be interesting to run it on a (Synology) NAS – “busybox” on a variety of CPUS or on a Raspberry Pi – e.g. Debian Wheezy or …

  • Synology DSM 3rd party packages – this list does not show the platforms the packages are available on

    http://www.synology.com/dsm/dsm_app.php?lang=enu#dsm_app_content_tabs_by_3rd_party E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software) is only available on ARM and x86 based platforms, and the list doesn’t say that.

  • Synology® Releases Its Latest 2-Bay High Performance NAS for Small Business – The DS214+

    http://originwww.synology.com/support/news.php?lang=us&news_id=421 http://originwww.synology.com/support/news.php?lang=enu&news_id=419 the DS214+ is faster CPUwise and has double the memory of the DS213+, but it also seems to get sold cheaper – I certainly wouldn’t need the 2nd Gigabit LAN plug, but then … the DS214+ is my new 2-bay NAS favourite

  • “Synology unleashes its most affordable 2-bay NAS ever, the DS214se for $160” says 9to5toys

    http://9to5toys.com/2013/11/05/synology-unleashes-its-most-affordable-2-bay-nas-ever-the-ds214se-for-160/ http://www.synology.com/products/spec.php?product_name=DS214se&lang=enu http://www.synology.com/products/spec.php?product_name=DS213%2B&lang=enu You may want to compare the specs of the DS213+ and the DS214se. I still quite like to own the DS213+.