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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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2-way synchronisation across WAN - DFS, Synology?

our office is soon to get a little sister-office in another location. I'm struggling to understand how for example DFS could help get a proper 2-way-synchronisation done between the two locations - and it appears to be difficult to find professional…
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How to setup/overcome file size limitation/"file too large" error in samba/cifs 2.1 on Synology DS214 with DSM 5

I'm mounting a samba share with some sparse files over cifs with -o username=user,gid=999,uid=999,rw,vers=1.0. The NAS has 3TB capacity and 500 GB free disk space, creating a 4TB sparse file with truncate -s 4T file.img is no problem. When I mount…
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VPN Access to a Synology NAS Behind a Firewall

I have a box that I want access to from outside the office (Synology NAS). I don't need access to the rest of the subnet, just that box. For the moment it's to use a git repo, but some day maybe file shares and more. My office sublets access to…
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Will expanding my Synology Hybrid RAID delete the data on the initial disk?

As the title states, I currently have my Synology NAS with a single 4TB drive in it. I now wish to expand this with another 4TB drive. If I expand the volume (it's currently setup as SHR) will the initial disk be erased? I know it says "existing…
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Mount FTP folder on Synology (not CIFS)

I am trying to mount folder using the FTP protocol on my Synology. What I managed to do so far is to use the option mount remote folder of the file station, but you can only mount folders with CIFS protocol, not FTP. Basically, I want to work on my…
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NAS shares cannot be accessed by name in a domain

I have a NAS (Synology DS411, DSM 4.3) that was configured to be joined to an AD domain. Privileges were appropriately set on the shares and everything was fine. I (foolishly) changed the name of the device on the network. This action removed the…
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Synology diskstation - alternating drive backups

At our job site, we have a Synology Diskstation (DS412+) serving as our backup device. It currently backs up our ESX host and mail server. We also have an external drive backup in place for off-site backups. There's currently two USB hard drives…
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Trac standalone reading htpasswd file, but still says Authentication information not available

I am having some problems correctly configuring my trac server. I'm running Tracd 0.12.1 on a Synology DS411. I've followed this guide, I can browse the issues in trac, but if I try to log in, it tells me the following error: Trac…
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Rsync: windows 7, synology: login error and permission denied error

Good day to all of you all, I'm running into strange/stupid errors, and I hope anybody would be so kind to help me out. I have to admit, I am by no means a guru, so please bear with me :-) Situation: Synology NAS (runs Linux), and Windows 7 desktop…
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Why do my backup fail when I target a network share hosted by a Synology DS211 disk station?

My backups are failing when I try to use a network share hosted by a Synology DS211 disk station. They work fine if I target a different network share (i.e. \server1\data\larry). When I run the following command: Wbadmin start backup…
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How to add Synology NFS share to ESXi?

I have created an nfs share on a synology NAS. I want to add the share to an ESXi host, but without success. Configuration of the nfs share: I inserted the IP of the ESXi host, allowed read/write and tried all 3 root_squash values (not assigned,…
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How can I make synology reverse proxy work inside my local / private network and/or over VPN (and do I need to?)?

I have a Synology NAS accessible inside by local network over direct IP and URL: https://192.168.5.10 https://cloud.local I have docker running inside my synology NAS with some applications working on different ports. For example, when inside my…
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Synology QuickConnect Relay: Not Secure?

I was reading the QuickConnect whitepaper and was overall pretty impressed. But on page 10 it explains how the Relay service works and it’s implied (but not explicitly stated) that packets are decrypted on the Relay Server. They go on to pinky swear…
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Access local network via Synology OpenVPN

I'm trying to access my LAN via a Synology NAS with the OpenVPN package. My router IP is 192.168.1.1 and my Synology NAS IP is 192.168.1.100. They are both connected to a managed Netgear switch whose IP is 192.168.1.10. I setup the OpenVPN package…
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Windows server vs Synology

I do network support for SMEs and a client decided to move away from cloud storage/backup and simple file sharing between Windows terminals and install a server. Requirements are data encryption, MS Access database sharing with concurrent users,…
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