Configuration NAS Mnemosyne

Here is the page dedicated to our home NAS (Synology NAS DS409+), called Mnemosyne.

• Disk Station Manager: http://mnemosyne:5000
• Admin account: admin

First install

• Mounted 4 harddrives Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB WD20EADS
• Plugged power & Ethernet (on home intranet), then power on.
• (under Linux) Launched DSAssistant.i386... Server not found
• (reboot in Windows) Launched Synology Assistant... found!
• Step-by-step installation (see data below)
• Disk formatting (system partition / data partition)
• Logged into Disk Station Manager (see data below)
  • !!! login does not work with Internet Explorer (password not accepted) !!!
• Set up language
• Set up e-mail notification
• Created volume
• Created users
• Created shared folders
• Defined file sharing (windows,NFS)

Configuration

• System
  • Network
    • Server Name: Mnemosyne
    • Network config: automatic (DHCP)
  • Language
    • Display: English
  • Time
    • Time zone: (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris
  • Notification
    • SMTP server: smtp.scarlet.be
    • SMTP port: 25
    • Primary mail: michael.peeters@scarlet.be
    • Secondary mail: michael.peeters@noekeon.be
  • Power
    • Scheduled Power On: Weekdays, 17:30
    • Scheduled Power Off: Daily, 02:00
  • Firmware Update:
    • Version: DSM 2.1-0844 on 2009/04/21 (file synology_ppc853x_409+_0844.pat)
• Privileges
  • Users:
    • admin (admin user)
    • guest (enabled)
    • backup (User to create backup)
    • movies (store movies)
    • musics (store musics)
    • photos (Store photos)
    • videos (Store videos)
  • Shared folder
    • backup (For PC backups) (group Users: RO - user backup: RW)
    • movies (DVD Movies, SVCD...) (group Users: RO - user movies: RW)
    • musics (Audio CD, mp3, ogg...) (group Users: RO - user musics: RW)
    • photos (Photos album) (group Users: RO - user photos: RW:)
    • public (Public folder) (group Users: RW)
    • videos (Family videos...) (group Users: RO - user videos: RW:)
• Storage
  • Volume
    • Volume 1: 4 disk volume, RAID 5, Complete consistency check
• File Sharing
  • Win/Mac OS
    • Enable Windows file service: enabled
      • Enable Windows file service
      • Workgroup: HELL
      • Optimize CIFS database operations: disabled (see [1])
      • Enable Local Master Broser: disabled
      • Enable CIFS Recycle Bin: disabled
    • Enable AppleTalk: disabled
  • NFS
    • NFS Service: enabled

To Do

• Enable NFS?
• Windows file sharing - what is CIFS?

Statistics

Some statistics related to our NAS

Task	Source	Size	Time	Rate
DVD to NAS	Unicorn	4,23GB	15m48s	avg 4,687kB/s, peak 7,290kB/s
DVD to NAS	Unicorn	4,32GB	16m03s	avg 4,708kB/s, peak 7,701kB/s
DVD to NAS	Unicorn	3,93GB	14m34s	avg 4,717kB/s, peak 7,553kB/s
DVD to HDD	Unicorn	3,65GB	4m49s	avg 13,263kB/s, peak 19,393kB/s
HDD to NAS	Unicorn	3,65GB	~7m00s	avg 8,900kB/s
DVD to NAS	Unicorn	3,65GB	11m23s	avg 5,612kB/s, peak 7,848kB/s

How-To

SSH

• Enable SSH service
• To have root access, log in as user root, and use same password as admin account.

NFS

• Enabled NFS service
• Edited NFS privilege for share volume1/backup, allow rw, for client minimoy

Then from NFS client, tried

$ sudo mkdir -p /net/mnemosyne/backup
$ sudo mount mnemosyne:/volume1/backup /net/mnemosyne/backup
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting mnemosyne:/volume1/backup

Looking into NAS file /var/log/messages (need to ssh as root on the NAS), there is the line:

... refused mount request from HOST00245402988d.HELL for /volume1/backup (/): no export entry

So it seems that the connection is refused because the DNS name of the NFS client does not match the export line in file /etc/exports

/volume1/backup minimoy.HELL(rw,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0)