Questions tagged [synology]

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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Synology Storage Manager rejects healthy disks as "Critical" because of "reset commands"?

I am trying to install a new HDD in my DS1515+. The hard drives are brand new Seagate Exos X. I have bought 3 of these drives, and 1 of them works fine and is now part of my storage pool, but the other 2 gives me an error when I install them in the…
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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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SFTP error on Synology DSM

I created a user (no root), I can connect with him over ssh, I can send files over scp but when I'm using sftp I get this error: subsystem request failed on channel 0 I checked /etc/ssh/sshd_config: # override default of no subsystems #Subsystem …
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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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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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SFTP login accepted, SSH login denied by Synology NAS

On a Synology NAS, I want to enable SFTP and SSH for some non-admin users. (SSH mainly for pushing to git repos on the NAS.) What works I was able to make SFTP work with different clients on Mac and Linux. The following is required to get this to…
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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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