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Overview
Synology NAS is designed to make storing and sharing files within your local network quick and simple, allowing you to directly access shared folders and files on the Synology NAS without going through the hassle of logging into DSM everytime. For example, you'll be able to store files to your Synology NAS with Finder just like other network devices.
Access Shared Folders with Mac OS
- Open Finder on your Mac computer.
- Find the menu bar along the top of the screen.
- Click Go and select Connect to Server.
- Enter the IP address for your Synology NAS, preceded by 'afp://' For example, 'afp://192.168.59.121'. Click Connect to continue.
- Enter your DSM username and password. Your user account must have the proper read/write privileges for the shared folder that you wish to access. Click Connect to continue.
- Finally, if your user name credentials are correct, you will now see your Synology NAS listed under the Shared section of your Finder window. Double-click the shared folder to explore its contents.
I am the proud owner of a Synology DS1512+. She’s getting old but she’s still one of my more sensible purchases. The hardware quality and ease-of-use of the Synology Disk Manager (DSM) still pleases me every day.
I need my NAS to be operational. I use it for all my important stuff but I also have the “urge” to develop my own tools for it. I need a platform to develop software on, without the risk of losing any of my data.
Recently I found XPEnology. Is it a Synology DSM clone? No. It IS the original Synology DSM, without alterations. You just need something to boot it with; a bootloader. Is it legal???? I’m not sure. And when in doubt, go for safe; consider it illegal.
In retrospect, setting-up a XPEnology NAS is surprisingly easy. But for most tutorials you need a Windows computer (windows-only software is used). But on a Mac, you don’t need (most of this) 3rd party software. You have a Mac! A Mac comes with tools, but what tool to use and how?
[Edit: Aug, 05 2017: added info on updating and links to external blogs]
Before we begin, please note; Using XPEnology might be illegal in your country (it most likely is!) and I will not be held responsible for any legal action taken against you. All this posts will tell you is how great a NAS in general and a Synology NAS in particular is, and how to write a disk-image to a USB drive. I could have given the exact same tutorial for writing a DVD-image of Ubuntu to a flash-drive.
Using the Synology DSM software on non-Synology hardware is illegal.
From another blog, loosely translated from french, with my “Papa fume une pipe” knowledge of the language;
Synology: “You need to know that using XPEnology is illegal and in violation of the intellectual property of Synology and infringes its copyright. It is not allowed to install DSM on another server and this may lead to legal action.”
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Personally; storing my personal data on a hacked NAS? … shivers down my spine. Also note, XPEnology and Synology are not in sync, update-wise; there is always a delay. The XPEnology-community needs to fix the bootloader for every new version.
Final note: Let us remember that the first (and most) victims of the Synolocker Ransomware attack last June were XPEnology users.
[ source: https://www.cachem.fr/xpenology-mot-fin/ ]
A quoted quote, poorly translated, but still; it most likely is illegal.
Is it safe? Yes … No … Maybe …
The entire functioning of your XPEnology NAS is in all aspects IDENTICAL to a real Synology NAS, which also means; the disks are interchangeable. You can start on a XPEnology NAS to get used to it and then in a guilt infused fit, purchase a Synology NAS, migrate the disks and continue with your day job. (I haven’t tested it, but it should boot and run without realising the hardware has changed *1). Other way around, you can start with a Synology NAS and in the unlikely event your machine fails, run your disks on temporary hardware with XPEnology while your NAS is in repair.
Now, both these situations are hypothetical, but fuelled by the fact that when I went and set-up my XPEnology NAS on an HP DataVault X510, it asked me to migrate my data. (*1 ->) It detected the data on the old NAS disks I re-used. I was thrilled :) I halted the process, formatted the disks, and restarted the process. This time I could do a “first time install”.
Now the most important part of this story is; WHY.
WHY did I choose to build a NAS, using technically inferior parts, second-hand harddisks, hack-y software (Jun’s Bootloader) and WHY am I posting about it? Well the last question is easily answered; because I can. And because I need to store the steps I used to create the bootloader USB-drive.
The answer to WHY XPEnology?
I need a place to develop software without the risk of ruining my personal data. Simple as that. Reusing old hardware is a money-saving choice. I don’t have the spare cash to get a second NAS unit “just for the fun of it”. Alternatively, I could use a Virtual machine (In fact, I did; I created a 7-disk NAS with 24 GB of storage, in VMWare Fusion. Why? Because I can. It’s fun!). Second reason for an experimental NAS is proof-of-concept; I need something to convince some people that buying a Synology NAS is a GOOD business investment. Don’t buy a computer with loads of disks, buy a NAS. It has everything a (small/medium) business needs and Synology DSM can do so much more. But this is not the post for promoting the features of DSM and the power of the packages.
Or is it?!
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Apart from basic file-storage; your NAS can be a Mail server. Or a Subversion/Git repository. It serves very well for Photo/Video storage. You can make it your DHCP server, VPN-server, etc. etc. etc. If a computer can do it, most likely a Synology NAS can do it too.
Why choose a NAS in general? Canoscan lide 25 drivers for mac.
Imagine the situation of a small start-up enterprise, about 10 years ago, with say 2 computers; You need a place to store company data, so you get an external disk drive. As your business grows, you need more people, more computers, more data to store, and increased need for backups. So you get another computer that acts as a server, you put your files on a shared drive. Now your data grows, and your company grows. You upgrade some disks, add more disks. 10 years later you need to store company data for about 200 active clients, store backups of your computers, store backups of your work and your webservers. A growing development-team brought you into a position where you have your own version-control-repository (Subversion or GitLab) and host development versions of your clients websites. This all requires data. Let’s give that a number; 2TB, spread over 4 1TB disks (keep things organised and have room to expand). If one of those disks fail, you loose the data, so you keep a backup of your data; now you need 8TB of storage-space, spread over 8 disks. 8 1TB disks for 4TB effective>
Recap?
Really, you want a recap?
- Buy a Synology NAS. Just do it. Listen to your technically-minded employee, your geeky neighbour, or just me, and buy one! Everybody will be happy.
- If you need a hobby machine to develop for your in-operation Synology NAS, grab a computer with 4 or more SATA drives, and build a XPEnology unit.
- If you want/need to be on the legal side; don’t use XPEnology; get a second Synology NAS.
How’s that for a recap.
[Edit: Aug, 05 2017]
Today I updated DSM to a new bug fix release (6.1.2 to 6.1.3). It broke the installation. Another reason to BUY ORIGINAL :)
Solution?
Synology Dsm For Mac Download
- Hook USB to real Synology NAS to backup grub config file
- Download latest Jun’s loader (1.02b) and put on USB
- Hook USB to real Synology NAS to edit grub config file
- Boot the x510
But HAHA! The x510 won’t LET you boot! Because
- disk 1 is present, so it won’t boot from USB
- cannot set boot sequence to USB only because x510 has no way of altering the BIOS settings
- A VGA header for the x510 is not enough, you need the VGA+PS/2 header cable, a PS/2 keyboard an maybe an extra jumper and maybe you need to alter the VGA+PS/2 header connector to short pins 3+4.
Synology Dsm For Virtual Machine
With good timing:
- Pull disk 1
- power on
- wait till the LAN led goes off and on again
- wait till the system status led goes from off/blue blink state to white/red blink state (normal for non-windows software on the x510) and at that specific time;
- Push disk 1
This way, no disk is present, so the system boots from USB, and Synology DSM is not yet ready for a RAID consistency check and the disk will be present at that time.
I also found a blog-post on creating the boot loader USB on Ubuntu which presents a way to mount and edit the ISO before ‘burning’ it to USB. In time I will attempt to get the same tools working on macOS.
Remon signing off, Happy coding!