Re: changed subject: synology
agreed. some parts are a little bit difficult to access. for example the about screen to see version numbers. I guess the most accessible NAS is our 11 year old Buffalo TeraStation which today showed signs of aging. At least one of the disks. Simon Am 23.01.2019 um 21:59 schrieb Andrew Hodgson:
Hi,
Best thing is to go on the demo site and find out for yourself. Its not standard but workable.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger@vol.at> Sent: 23 January 2019 20:41 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology
I looked into it with NVDA. So that seems to be working better with newer web technologies like the app mode?
Am 23.01.2019 um 21:29 schrieb philrigby62@gmail.com:
Powershell interface? All I want, but cannot find anything about, is how to perform the functions of the web interface via the command line once signed into the Synology via ssh. After all, the OS, which they call DSM, is Linux based. This seems to be a well-kept secret. I suppose Synology wouldn't like us fiddling with things as it would complicate their support model.
If anyone has any info on doing things with a Synology NAS via the Linux command line of the Synology NAS itself, I would be very interested.
As Andrew says, the web interface is just about usable but it is not nice at all to use. Lots of JAWS application mode and JAWS cursor usage to get everything done that is needed. It works but is awkward. That's' why I'd love to know how to do it all from the Linux shell.
Cheers, Phil.
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgson.io> Sent: 23 January 2019 16:47 To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology
Hi,
It is fairly strange to use it but I have got used to it now and like the features. It would be better if there was an API or PowerShell interface but there we go.
You have to use the tab and arrow keys in application mode and there is a certain amount of fiddling required in some specific areas.
Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Timothy Spaulding [spaulding@icanbrew.com] Sent: 23 January 2019 16:44 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] changed subject: synology
Hi,
How do you like the interface to configure your Synology box? I am thinking of replacing my old QNAP with a Synology RackStation.
Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgson.io> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 11:07 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Unraid VS. Windows server 2019 file server
Hi,
UnRaid I don't believe is free so you would have to purchase that. I personally use Synology for ages for the NAS and iSCSI target but that was just my personal preference. I don't really think it matters these days anyway as they all use very similar technology.
Bear in mind Unraid and some of the home like NAS boxes may enable more services (yes I did see an iSCSI box serving an iTunes server once).
Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Katherine M. Moss via Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: 23 January 2019 13:26 To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' Cc: Katherine M. Moss Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unraid VS. Windows server 2019 file server
Hi all, I've been scouring the internet for any information on this. I'm trying to set up a file server for my home lab, and while I do have Windows server 2019 via a visual studio subscription, somebody told me that Unraid is better for a file server from a security standpoint. States it's due to the compatibility and legacy support that Windows carries with it, though I firmly believed all of the unsecure storage options in Windows to be disabled by default? I can find nothing on the internet for enterprise-class networks stating that Unraid is surely a more secure option. (yes, it's a lab, but it's set up like a small business network to mimic what would be potentially found in the real world.) Also, when comparing Unraid to Windows storage spaces, seems like the two do the same thing. My current server is set up with a storage space, and I've never had any issues with him in terms of transfer speeds, performance, or anything else. Any input would be great. Most other folks I've gone to seem to be leaning towards Windows ... especially with Windows server core, which my server would be. Thanks for any input. Much appreciated. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
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I would be inclined to suggest obtaining a small machine, adding drives to it, installing FreeBSD, setting up zfs, editing configuration files for Samba, nfs or whatever you need... and the problem goes away.
Out of curiosity, why would you suggest Free BSD over Linux? For a blind person, aren't the choices for Free BSD to have a machine with a serial port or get sighted assistance to install it? Ryan Mann Computer Instructor/IT Specialist Center For The Visually Impaired DaytonaBeach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-253-8879 EXT 111 -----Original Message----- From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:57 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology I would be inclined to suggest obtaining a small machine, adding drives to it, installing FreeBSD, setting up zfs, editing configuration files for Samba, nfs or whatever you need... and the problem goes away. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Hi, I would have suggested debian and maybe using OpenMediaVault. Though i haven't looked at it at the moment for accessibility. Though i am planning that in the future. when i have some time to do that. Simon Am 23.01.2019 um 23:04 schrieb Ryan Mann:
Out of curiosity, why would you suggest Free BSD over Linux? For a blind person, aren't the choices for Free BSD to have a machine with a serial port or get sighted assistance to install it?
Ryan Mann Computer Instructor/IT Specialist Center For The Visually Impaired DaytonaBeach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-253-8879 EXT 111
-----Original Message----- From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:57 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology
I would be inclined to suggest obtaining a small machine, adding drives to it, installing FreeBSD, setting up zfs, editing configuration files for Samba, nfs or whatever you need... and the problem goes away.
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Forgot to add or just plain debian and samba. can be easily installed as a blind person with speech or braille. Am 23.01.2019 um 23:07 schrieb Simon Eigeldinger:
Hi,
I would have suggested debian and maybe using OpenMediaVault. Though i haven't looked at it at the moment for accessibility. Though i am planning that in the future. when i have some time to do that.
Simon
Am 23.01.2019 um 23:04 schrieb Ryan Mann:
Out of curiosity, why would you suggest Free BSD over Linux? For a blind person, aren't the choices for Free BSD to have a machine with a serial port or get sighted assistance to install it?
Ryan Mann Computer Instructor/IT Specialist Center For The Visually Impaired DaytonaBeach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-253-8879 EXT 111
-----Original Message----- From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:57 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology
I would be inclined to suggest obtaining a small machine, adding drives to it, installing FreeBSD, setting up zfs, editing configuration files for Samba, nfs or whatever you need... and the problem goes away.
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I would expect the ZFS support in FreeBSD to be better, although apparently the Linux version (outside of the mainline kernel due to license compatibility issues) is now what the other operating systems have decided to work from in future releases. ZFS is reputedly very good (data check sums, copy-on-write, redundancy if you have multiple drives, etc.). I suppose my recommendation is really for ZFS, and if you want to take the ZFS for Linux route with a separately compiled kernel module, that option seems to be open too. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Mann <rmann@cvicentralflorida.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 5:05 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology Out of curiosity, why would you suggest Free BSD over Linux? For a blind person, aren't the choices for Free BSD to have a machine with a serial port or get sighted assistance to install it? Ryan Mann Computer Instructor/IT Specialist Center For The Visually Impaired DaytonaBeach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-253-8879 EXT 111 -----Original Message----- From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:57 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology I would be inclined to suggest obtaining a small machine, adding drives to it, installing FreeBSD, setting up zfs, editing configuration files for Samba, nfs or whatever you need... and the problem goes away. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
I don't know. Do you think zfs is so much better that it is worth dictating which operating system you use? We use xfs on the file server at the Math department at the University Of Wisconsin. Last time I rebuilt our file server, I switched us from ext4 to xfs. But I think either would really have been fine. I do rue the day I switched us from debian to ubuntu server though. On 1/23/19 5:22 PM, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
I would expect the ZFS support in FreeBSD to be better, although apparently the Linux version (outside of the mainline kernel due to license compatibility issues) is now what the other operating systems have decided to work from in future releases.
ZFS is reputedly very good (data check sums, copy-on-write, redundancy if you have multiple drives, etc.). I suppose my recommendation is really for ZFS, and if you want to take the ZFS for Linux route with a separately compiled kernel module, that option seems to be open too.
-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Mann <rmann@cvicentralflorida.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 5:05 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology
Out of curiosity, why would you suggest Free BSD over Linux? For a blind person, aren't the choices for Free BSD to have a machine with a serial port or get sighted assistance to install it?
Ryan Mann Computer Instructor/IT Specialist Center For The Visually Impaired DaytonaBeach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-253-8879 EXT 111
-----Original Message----- From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:57 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology
I would be inclined to suggest obtaining a small machine, adding drives to it, installing FreeBSD, setting up zfs, editing configuration files for Samba, nfs or whatever you need... and the problem goes away.
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I've used XFS in the past, very comfortably for both running systems and backup purposes. ZFS is better (how much that matters depends on your needs), and the licensing situation is unfortunate. John G Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:
I don't know. Do you think zfs is so much better that it is worth dictating which operating system you use? We use xfs on the file server at the Math department at the University Of Wisconsin. Last time I rebuilt our file server, I switched us from ext4 to xfs. But I think either would really have been fine.
I do rue the day I switched us from debian to ubuntu server though.
On 1/23/19 5:22 PM, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
I would expect the ZFS support in FreeBSD to be better, although apparently the Linux version (outside of the mainline kernel due to license compatibility issues) is now what the other operating systems have decided to work from in future releases.
ZFS is reputedly very good (data check sums, copy-on-write, redundancy if you have multiple drives, etc.). I suppose my recommendation is really for ZFS, and if you want to take the ZFS for Linux route with a separately compiled kernel module, that option seems to be open too.
-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Mann <rmann@cvicentralflorida.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 5:05 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology
Out of curiosity, why would you suggest Free BSD over Linux? For a blind person, aren't the choices for Free BSD to have a machine with a serial port or get sighted assistance to install it?
Ryan Mann Computer Instructor/IT Specialist Center For The Visually Impaired DaytonaBeach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-253-8879 EXT 111
-----Original Message----- From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:57 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: changed subject: synology
I would be inclined to suggest obtaining a small machine, adding drives to it, installing FreeBSD, setting up zfs, editing configuration files for Samba, nfs or whatever you need... and the problem goes away.
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