{"id":182,"date":"2018-11-14T18:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T16:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.viking-studios.net\/en\/?p=182"},"modified":"2018-11-14T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:29:13","slug":"tutorial-series-synology-diskstation-dsm6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.viking-studios.net\/en\/tutorial-series-synology-diskstation-dsm6\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial series: Synology DiskStation (DSM6)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently I’m planning a tutorial series including initial setup of a DiskStation, network setup, external access and configuring certain services and applications.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually I just wanted to update my SSL certificate, but it didn’t do what I wanted it to do so I used\u00a0the command line, the error messages you get there are much more descriptive then the generic error you get in DSM. And it ended all with a completely destroyed certification management (I was able to create\/delete certificates but I couldn’t assign them to certain services). The Synology support told me, that only reinstalling hte firmware helps. That’s actually not an issue on DiskStations, you can do that without touching the data. Just back up your config before doing so and reapply it afterwards.
\nI was thinking about doing a clean setup of my DS for quite some time. I played around with it a lot and some garbage got accumulated over the time but the main reason was: I did most of the configuration with DSM 5. In DSM 6 many settings got moved or changed and nginx as a proxy server changed a lot. Some network settings worked or didn’t work and I wasn’t able to track them down. Also I didn’t document the steps I made back then. Now I wanted to start from scratch and do so.<\/p>\n

So first, saving 3TB of data. I had to spread it on almost every device in my household. After that I removed the HDDs and plugged them into my PC. I deleted the n all partitions, formatted the HDDs and deleted again all partitions. I also decided to not do a RAID 1 again as I ran out of space but bigger HDDs are not part of my budget at the moment.
\nFurther down there is a list of all articles that a part of this series. Also my existing tutorials aroung DiskStations and Nextcloud are included. The order matches roughly the steps I made during the setup. But you don’t have to do the tutorials in order (beside the setup of course), you can skip if you don’t need everything. If you need parts that are described in other articles, I’ll link them. The last two tutorial groups are advanced topics that often need some preparation\u00a0or – like the articles about security and advanced settings – need certain packages installed otherwise some settings don’t show up.<\/p>\n

A few words about effort: The articles about setup and installing packages will be quite short. Synology not only offers a lot of packages they are usually easy to install and configure. But if it comes to make things secure, you have to put a bit more time into it. Don’t take security too easy, especially if you want to make services accessible via internet.
\nIt gets time consuming if you start to install software, that is not available as Synology package. Basically, a DiskStation is a Linux server, so there is almost nothing, that runs on a linux server, that you can’t run on a DS. But often you have to deal with limitations and do some extra steps to get things to work. E.g. TeamSpeak and Docker are not supported by every DiskStation, only those with Intel CPUs and enough RAM will do. Especially the beginner models often have ARM CPUs and only little RAM. Other hurdles are folder structures and configuration files that differ on DiskStations compared to pure Linux machines. Also some Synology packages don’t provide full functionality like the official releases.<\/p>\n

Tutorials<\/h2>\n