NAS Question

i bought the DS211 and gigabit switch last week and expected a hard time setting up to my wired network consisting of my main pc, modem/router, laptop and media centre.

Got to say it was a piece of cake to set up and get started, barely needed the instructions at all to get going with the basics.

Sure i'm not using its full functionality but i only really want a place to back up my media to stream to the media player and to drop and drag files to/from explorer. Highly recommended.
 
What steps do you have to perform to share folders and assign permissions? Is it fairly easy?

Does the client computer have to enter username/password each time they access the folder?

Do the mapped drives always re-authentic at login?
 
ringo, as below:

On the NAS open the "Shared Folders" app and click create, chose a name and assign who can access it (this will look at the users created on the NAS, the default being "Admin" and "guest". you can choose read, read/write and no access)

this doesnt depend on the nas but the client, windows will remember credentials provided you are nagivating to the same place. after authenticating once you will only need to type \\server\share and it will just open

Again depends on the client, mapped drives within windows will "reconnect at login" unless you tell them not too. Mapping the drives ive found more useful as this assigns them a drive letter within windows, therefore windows backup can use them as if they were a local disk
 
Thanks - thats very helpful.

Can you only use ACLs if you are using domain accounts?

I intend to create folders for separate client machines and then each pc will have it's own associated folder for backups. It sounds easy enough to get set up.
 
the ds210 (assuming they all do with dsm 3.0) will let you chose between the synology's authentication or windows ACL can be modified, either or tbh
 
I think I'll wait on the DS211+ coming out although there doesn't seem to be much difference between the 211 and the 210+. The new 211 doesn't have Wake on LAN but I don't think matters too much to me.

How is wake on lan triggered anyway?
 
anything can send it but it needs to go to a certain port (9 i think?) with the mac address of the machine to be woken up

good old DD-WRT on my router takes care of the wol stuff
 
The unit I looked at is very low power anyway so it probably isn't necessary to use WOL.

Another question I forgot to mention was RAID 1. Is this likely to slow down the speeds? Also if a disk fails are you definitely able to rebuild the array provided that one disk is OK? Can RAID 1 array rebuilds fail?
 
Also, what hard disks are best for a NAS? Samsungs or WDs are what I have been looking at. Can anyone comment on who has the best support/RMA service?
 
Another question... if I have a machine not on the LAN that I want to connect using the internet, can I map a network drive across the internet or are they LAN only?
 
You could map a network driver over t'internet but I definitely wouldn't recommend it. :)

Look at using WinSCP to access the data over SSH.
 
Big security issue is it?

I was thinking that I could use the NAS for allowing other family members to backup when out and about. I thought that a mapped drive would be the only way to do this. I have some robocopy scripts that backup certain directories.
 
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