Category: Synology

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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® 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+.

  • VirtualBox vs iSCSI

    Richard Horwood on “Virtualbox, iSCSI targets and teleport” (2010) (somebody mentions there, that addiscsidisk got replaced and explains how) Johannes Schlüter on “iSCSI devices in VirtualBox” (2010) http://www.synology.com/us/solutions/iSCSI/ iSCSI supposes Gigabit LAN, so that’s a good reason to replace my last non-Gigabit FRITZ!Box by a Gigabit one. Somebody will get my last FRITZ!Box 7270 (non-Gigabit), and I will…