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July 26, 2020

Connect to Synology from Mac (Finder) using SMB

Synology is a powerful home NAS with terabytes of storage available. This tutorial will show you how to connect your Mac directly to your NAS, which allows you to access this additional storage directly from Finder. This process is simple and can work over either a wired ethernet connection or even wifi, though you will get better performance over a wired connection. There are three different ways to connect your Mac to your Synology NAS: SMB, AFS, and NFS. Between these three options I would recommend SMB, as AFP is depreciated, and NFS is slow and more difficult to setup....

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June 23, 2020

Link Aggregation On Synology NAS

Overview Link Aggregation allows you to combine multiple 1GbE connections to get higher performance when multiple devices are connecting at the same time. One important thing to note: You cannot use Link Aggregation to gain a speed advantage when only one device is connected. Meaning you cannot use 4, 1GbE ports to get a faster than 125MB/s read/write on a large file transfer. Instead you can get up to 4 devices all getting the full 1GbE speeds. This is the primary reason why most Synology models come with at least two ports. This not only allows for higher multi-user performance...

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June 22, 2020

SSH Keys With Synology NAS: Setup Tutorial

SSH Keys on Synology NAS SSH keys are a great way to securely login to your NAS without requiring password authentication! In this tutorial we are going to cover setting up SSH Keys on Synology NAS from DSM. This will work with both MAC and PC (and linux of course). Configure Settings First, log in to DSM. Open your Control Panel. Under Advanced Mode, go to Terminal and SNMP and click Enable SSH Service. Leave on Port 22 and click Apply. Back in the Control Panel, go to User -> Advanced and click Enable user home service. Click Apply. SSH...

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