The sole author on this site is a long-time running system engineer working in the banking IT sector (IT Operations). Passionate about Mac, NAS/SAN, virtualization, and Docker environments.
synology
It has passed a little over 14 months since synoforum.com took its first steps. That is how long it took to get 1000 registered users. With the help of our active community, new moderators, and lots of combined knowledge, SF is now rich with over 2800 topics, over 14000
apple
This year will undoubtedly be remembered in many ways. The COVID-19 global situation is certainly one of them that has forced all of us, including large corporations such as Apple, to drastically change their approach to work and development as well as their relationship with their customers and clients.
srm
UPDATE: 21/06/2020 - Did an update on the 2600 and 2200 mesh routers. Took over 20min and the reboot from SRM did not go on its own. The 2600 router did not boot up at all. What I did was disconnected 2200 from it as well as my WAN
nas
UPDATE - 29/09/2020: Synology has just announced a new addition to their 2,5" SSD lineup, SAT 5200 with 3,84TB. Priced at $1.250,00 you can get it right now! More detail info here - https://www.synology.com/en-global/company/news/article/Larger_SSD/Synology®
apple
If you came here wondering the same questions, I have some bad news. I haven’t been able to join my test Mac into my MS ADDS. Yet. The reason for this article is to cover all the steps that were taken so far regarding testing and Kerberos configuration, etc,
apple
It is 10 days until WWDC 2020. As I wrote last month, this will be the first time that the conference will be held as a virtual keynote and all the sessions will be remote as well. Yesterday, Apple has sent a nice newsletter preparing everyone for the upcoming event.
dsm
It looks like that since this update has hit the net it has caused problems on multiple fronts. One of the main problems that were reported was the fact that the Storage Manager has started reporting potential volume data corruption on specific models that can take up to 16TB large
docker
Ever wanted to test out how fast your site was? Then you probably heard of JMeter? Well, today I would like to turn your attention to an open-source platform that’s not running in a UI under Java (?!?!) but rather from the command line. The best part is, your
dsm7
About a month ago I have had an opportunity to get some information regarding some potential changes regarding DSM7 and some of its features as well as some apps and services that will come at some point in time. Considering the whole COVID-19 situation as well as Synology decision
docker
In this short article, I would like to focus on Plex and LIFX integration using webhooks. In case you are not familiar with webhooks, it is a method that allows you to alter the behavior of a web page (or service) with an HTTP callback. More info here: https://en.
docker
Table of Contents : Running container UI on a custom non-8080 port : Check the tun module status : How to check if you are running inside the VPN? * UPDATE: How to use this VPN qBittorrent container as a gateway for any other container * UPDATE: How to run NordVPN via Lynx protocol
review
A few weeks ago I was looking for a laptop desktop stand that would allow me (or my wife) to elevate the laptop a bit but still allow me to type on it without the need for a secondary keyboard. The idea behind this was not to use the laptop