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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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NUT UPS-Dummy driver in repeater mode for Synology NAS

I have a NUT client that requires the UPS it monitors to be named ups. The client (a Synology NAS) does not provide a method to change this configuration. My setup consists of multiple UPSes monitored by a single master and I'd rather not have 1/4…
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Synology NAS: hdd hibernation and disk life

I've a Synology NAS with 2 WD Red hard drives. I've enabled the hibernation for the drives, so they stop after 20 minutes inactivity. However, we use the NAS a lot and the disks get powered up very frequently. I was wondering if hibernation could…
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Cannot connect to my L2TP IPSec VPN

I am trying to get my VPN (L2TP IPSec PSK) to work. I have a Synology NAS where I have setup everything as it says on the Synology support page. In my Asus RT-N66U router I have opened UDP ports 500, 1701 and 4500 for port forwarding to my NAS that…
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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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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 to load modules on Synology NAS on boot?

I have a Synology NAS (DSM 6.2.4) and I would like to load usbserial.ko and cp210x.ko on boot. When I run: sudo insmod /lib/modules/usbserial.ko sudo insmod /lib/modules/cp210x.ko The drivers work correctly, but when I reboot they are no longer…
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NFSv4.1 mount is extremly slow until remount

I have an issue that I don't know how to debug. I hope you can help me further with this. In my group, I administer a Linux compute cluster that consists of multiple compute machines and a Synology NAS server. Since the user homes need to be…
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