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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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ISCSI MPIO Extra devices, and is there meant to be an mpath0-part2?

I am trying to learn more about ISCSI and Multipath (MPIO) setup on a proxmox system. I thought I had everything working, but have that terrible spidey sense that something is incorrectly configured, am seeing no speed improvements, and even see an…
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Configuring sudo on CentOS with LDAP run by Synology Diskstation

I am trying to set up a CentOS 8 workstation to authenticate against a LDAP server run by a Synology DiskStation. I have been able to successfully configure SSSD to authenticate users against the server, allowing me to login using my LDAP account.…
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Shutdown Multiple Servers From One APC USB Port - Power loss event

I've got one Ubuntu box and a Synology NAS. Both are connected to the APC UPS, but only one USB, which is connected to the Ubuntu box. How, specifically, can I get both machines to shut down from a power loss event from one APC USB port?
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NAS storage comparison for Synology vs Overland

We are looking for NAS solution that will be used as secondary storage to hold large amount of data. We have received following proposals that are under our pre allocated budget. SnapServer XSR120 / HDD - SnapServer XSR 8TB SATA ENT > QTY: 8 disks…
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File transfer to SMB (Ubuntu 18.04 => Synology 718+) very slow

I have Synology DS718+, which I am testing with one user (myself) currently. My transfer rates from my laptop to Synology of around 2 MB/s. However copying FROM Synology back to laptop is around 30 MB/s! - therefore I am ruling network issues out.…
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Recover from a clean, degraded RAID-5

Good morning all, I have some NAS software which - for the most part - works great, but when something happens to the Hyper-V host it often fails spectacularly. Today is one of those days. I'm not great at under the hood stuff but have Google'd…
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Mapping a folder on Synology NAS to all Authenticated Users W2K12 Essentials

We have a W2k12 essentials server with about 10 users on it. I want to add a group policy to map to a folder on our Synology NAS drive. I believe I'm having a permissions issue, but not sure. I added the drive map in GPE and targeted it to…
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Synology NAS to Mac transfer: rsync creates identical folders on the same disk (NAS rsync and Mac rsync yield different hexdumps)

Summary: I use the following setup to backup data on a Synology NAS to a remote disk via rsync. First backup local: rsync initialised on the Synology NAS to the disk (mounted on the NAS). Future backups remote: rsync initialised on a Mac to the…
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iSCSI Target is not visible on Windows Servers

I've recently installed a synology NAS in a business environment. After setting up an iSCSI target, I went to one of the Windows Servers, launched the iSCSI initiator and could not discover the target. However, all of the Windows 10 machines could…
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What steps should I take to make sure Synology VPN Server is secure?

We we have a remote office with a Synology NAS and we would like it to connect to the home office Synology NAS. We have setup VPN Server (Synology package) on the home office NAS and enabled OpenVPN. The next step would be to open the appropriate…
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Remotely accessing SVN server installed on a Synology DiskStation

I recently purchased a Synology DiskStation and installed an SVN server on it. I can access it fine from anywhere inside my home network, however now I would like to be able to expose it externally. My first idea was to port-forward port 3690 on my…
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Synology DSM - DS Get from remote access

I can't connect from remote access (4G) to DS Get (or DS File) to my Synology with a private domain. For information, I can connect to the main dashboard with a navigator and access to Download Manager. And I can use DS File or DS Get when I am on…
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How to use .htaccess in a non open-basedir path of Synology/DSM 6.1

I am trying to use the trick described by Rob Van Aarle here to execute php pages in "paths not allowed" by default for Synology's web server... The purpose is to create packages which do not depend on "Init_3rdparty" (this famous package which…
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Routing over Synology VPN Server PPTP tunnel

I have a couple of LANs I'm trying to connect over the internet by way of a PPTP tunnel between a Unifi USG on one side and a Synology NAS running DSM on the other. Update: it's been helpfully pointed out that PPTP is insecure - however, there are…
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What if I don't replace failing disk in Raid1

I have a home server on Synology DS716+ running Raid1. Currently Disk1 S.M.A.R.T. status is Failing and also Bad Sector Count displays 2. So obviously I should replace this hard drive, but I am traveling and will not be home for another 2,5 weeks.…
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