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Synology is a company best known for its Network Attached Storage (NAS) product line.

Synology is a Taiwanese company which mainly produces NAS for consumer, prosumer and business.

The Synology's NAS are basically small form factor computers (ARM or Atom based) with a small Linux OS embedded.

More information on Wikipedia: Synology article

Synology web site: www.synology.com

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Can't log in via SSH to any accounts using /bin/bash shell on Synology NAS

I'm trying to install bash as the default shell on a ARM Linux running on an embedded device (Synology DS212+ NAS). But there's something really wrong, and I can't figure out what it is. Symptoms: 1) Root has /bin/bash as default shell, and can log…
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Rsync over ssh: "ERROR: module is read only" suddenly appeared

I've used from some time rsync/ssh to backup my shared host contents to my personal Synology NAS (212j for that matter), and it worked quite well. For information, I use a password-less ssh connection. 3 days ago, I updated my NAS software and…
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How to do the equivalent of Synology Hybrid Raid on Linux myself?

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_Synology_Hybrid_RAID%3F Synology is just Linux and uses LVM. How do their tools automate LVM to achieve what they call their Hybrid Raid?
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Disk Usage Analyzer on Synology

How can I get an overview of the disk usage on a Synology hard drives like this:
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iSCSI drive doesn't mount after reboot of windows 2008 r2

I have a server with Win2008R2 and a synology NAS. On the Nas there are 6 iSCSI partitions which are mounted on the windows server. The windows server is virtualized under Hyper-V. After rebooting the client machine, two of the 6 partitions do not…
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What does enable DoS protection in Synology DSM 5 do?

If I open Control Panel > Security > Protection, check Enable DoS Protection and click Apply, what kind of traffic gets blocked? The text reads "Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection helps to prevent malicious attacks over the internet." I cannot find…
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How to set the default shell when chsh is not present

I've a Synology DS412+ NAS box running Busybox, which has a default shell of ash. Previously, ipkg install optware-devel was run and it installed bash and set it as the default shell. Running ipkg install zsh has installed zsh but not set it as the…
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Can I run iostat on a Synology?

I have a Synology RS812RP+ which I'm using for a little bit of departmental testing. I've stuffed a bunch of SSD disks in it, and I'm curious about monitoring the disk IO. iostat doesn't come pre-installed on the synology and it doesn't have the…
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Stop SoftEther from routing all traffic through the VPN

I have successfully set-up SoftEther on my AWS free tier machine, and put a small apache2 instance on there. I can access the webpage via VPN from windows, Mac & Linux. BUT - when the VPN client is activated, ALL the traffic goes through the VPN.…
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iSCSI target stuck reconnecting after server reboots

I've been having some ongoing issues with my iSCSI connection not reconnecting itself after the server reboots, as shown below: OS is Windows Server 2008 R2. The iSCSI device is for my SQL Server 2008 R2 instance that is in a failover cluster with…
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Synology HA active-passive performance and failover

I have two Synology boxes (DiskStation DS1817+) that are running in Synology HA mode filled with WD Black 4TB drives in RAID10. They are connected to my cluster over iSCSI providing mainly backup storage, file share (in a separate File Server VM)…
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Configuring Synology NAS as freeIPA client

I'm attempting to deploy freeIPA in my company. The network is quite simple: < 10 FC20 (and FC21 beta) desktops < 5 FC20 servers (including the one with freeIPA) 1 Synology NAS DS1813+ (DSM 5.0) I am first simulating everything on VMs (including…
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Synology and Active Directory - "no logon servers available"

I have a Synology Diskstation DS412+ here configured for Active Directory authentication on the shared folders. I have a shared folder that our backup software writes backups to (so, CIFS). This all works fine on a normal day-to-day basis. The…
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Can't get rsync over sftp to work

I'm trying to set up a backup system from an Ubuntu server to a Synology NAS (DS413j) using rsync and sftp. I have created a user for this that we can call ubuntu-backup. I have a directory in ubuntu-backup home directory called www where the backup…
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Synology cron job not working

I am not sure where to ask this question but I'll ask here first. I've got a Synology DS211 server and I am trying to run cron jobs but it is not working. This is the code I got in the crontab file 10 19 4 * * root /opt/bin/openssh-scp…
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