I have been wanting to upgrade my DS1515+ since I purchased it, but didn’t want to spring for the $100+ 4GB upgrade module offered by Synology. Here’s what worked…
Category: Computers
Moving from MRTG to Observium
Synology NAS SMB 3 Windows Connection Issues
Synology recently released DSM version 5.2-5565 and with that came some updates for SMB v3 (SMB 3). By default, DSM is set to use SMB 2, and when you change the option to use SMB 3, it seems to “reset” all of your connections.
ANY open connections or mapped drives will not work right away
What that means is that ANY open connections or mapped drives will not work right away; you may have to disconnect and re-connect them all. I actually had to remove my mapped drives and then reconnect them to get them to function properly. I think that may be remedied by a reboot, but I didn’t try that (since I don’t reboot my computer very often).
Simple Way to Sync Files to a NAS
I recently picked up a NAS system (Synology DS1515+) to migrate a lot of my core files, pictures, business files, music, etc. to. During the transition I had times where I was syncing over files and then had to do some work and updated files locally. I want to make sure to get things moved over and make sure I get EVERYTHING!
Simple Responsive MRTG Index Page
I often view big-picture MRTG graphs on a mobile device of some type, and I hate how the pages look… So I made some real quick drop in CSS changes to make the page a little responsive so it shows the graphs a little better. The pages are way beyond simple, but they work for me…
Synology DS1515+ RAID-6 Initial Performance
I got my Synology DS1515+ setup with 4 x 4TB Western Digital Red drives in a RAID-6 configuration, all connected to the network via Gigabit Ethernet… Here’s some information on the disk configuration and performance I’m getting right out of the box.
Installing CrashPlan on a Synology DiskStation
I recently picked up a Synology DiskStation DS1515+ for some network attached storage and wanted to install CrashPlan, my choice of online backup software on the NAS for constant backups.
There are some great instructions out there from Scott Hanselman that uses the installers created by PC Load Letter.
MVEL Templates with Java
I recently had the need to develop a Java application that allowed the creation of HTML templates that could contain some basic if-else logic as well as bind some calculated parameters. The key around this was to make the templates editable, since they contained a lot of frequently changing content.
What I found to use was the MVEL 2.0 expression language.
What is MVEL, well I think their site says it best, “MVEL is a powerful expression language for Java-based applications.”