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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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High CPU Load on Synology by smbd

I have a Synology DS213j which I access through a VPN via the build-in VPN Server (I use OpenVPN) using Windows Explorer. Copying files to my local hard drive is very slow in the range of only ~170 KB/s. This seems to be limited by the Synologys…
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synology "disk groups" vs "volumes" clarification

Synology has introduced some interesting terminology with their products that is confusing (to someone used to traditional storage terminology). It appears that "volumes" on Synology is equivalent to RAID volumes. But then: What are "disk…
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Optimal configuration with Synology as HA iSCSI backend for vSphere

I'm looking into purchasing a new storage backend for our VMware vSphere Essentials package. We have 3 ESXi hosts, currently mainly using DAS. The goal is to upgrade to Essentials Plus this year, to leverage its extra power in High Availability and…
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Can't establish PPTP VPN windows 8/8.1

I am having an issue where I keep getting either error 800 or 807 whist trying to connect to a VPN server via PPTP on Windows 8 and 8.1 pro. The server itself is Synology's VPN Server running on a DS713+. This seems like it must be issue with the…
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OPENVPN route all traffic - Synology

I have a synology NAS that is my OPENVPN server. I am always on the road and I want to route all of my traffic through my house. Here is my config and my log. config file dev tun tls-client remote XX.XXX.XXX.XX 1194 # The "float" tells OpenVPN…
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Setup Apache Tomcat on Synology

I have an problem setting up an Apache Tomcat on my Synology DS1511+ server. The installing is no problem, but when i try http://"serverAdress":7070 i can't log into the the manage section. I have altered the tomcat-user.xml in …
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How to enable iSCSI MPIO Round Robin on ESXi 7

I'm running the free version of ESXi and a Synology's iSCSI SAN for storage. Synology details setting up Round Robin load balancing in the final step of their guide to setting up MPIO…
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How to check OS version of Synology NAS Disk Station Manager (DSM)?

How do I check what OS is installed on my Synology NAS? uname -a informed me that my NAS is: aarch64 GNU/Linux synology_rtd1296_rs819 ..but how do I know what version of the Synology OS it's running? Wikipedia tells me that Synology used to use an…
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Borg backup remotely gives error

Trying to use borg to backup Machine 1 to a remote Machine 2(which is synology), gives the error Remote: sh: borg: command not found Connection closed by remote host. Is borg working on the server? All permissions and firewall have been tested.…
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Synology DSM (Unix) - Cannot SSH with another user

On my Synology (DSM 6.2.2-24922), I have 3 users: admin (disabled ssh and login) user1 (my new admin user, recommanded by Synology) user2 (not admin) I can connect throw ssh with user1 but not with user2. I edited /etc/passwd to replace…
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How to map public domains to sites hosted in Docker on Synology NAS?

This question is about managing/administering the software of a server in a business environment, so I hope it is not off-topic. We plan to migrate some of our websites to Docker running on our Synology NAS. However, sites running in Docker have…
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Why is my iSCSI MPIO Setup not working?

I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2 and want to connect a Synology Rackstation via iSCSI to my server. The connection is done via four seperate LAN ports. The iSCSI part works fine, but if I copy stuff from the server to the NAS only one ethernet…
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How do I renew letsencrypt SSL certificates on Synology DSM?

It seems that for some reason the certificates that are generated with LetsEncrypt are not renewed automatically by latest Synology DSM. I tried the CLI, but it fails sudo syno-letsencrypt renew-all -v DEBUG: [syno.example.com] is not a subdomain…
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Initial delay when browsing SMB share from Windows

We have a NAS (Synology, running DSM 6) which is connected to our Active Directory on a Windows 2016 server. The NAS has 7 shared folders which are shared using SMB2. When browsing to the NAS using Windows Explorer (tested on both Windows 7 and…
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What is better: iSCSI or NFS for mysql datadir mount?

There is database server with ip-address in external zone with mysql instances and nas-storage existing in internal zone. I need that database file is located in storage. I want write in my.cnf for example: [mysqld1] port = 3306 datadir =…
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