Synology DSM Tips & Tricks

Telnet is an old client-server protocol based on a reliable connection-oriented transport. Typically, this protocol is used to establish a connection to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), port number 22 or 23, where a Telnet server application “telnetd” is listening. Telnet, however, predates TCP/IP and was originally run over Network Control Program (NCP) protocols. You … Read more about How to Disable Telnet Service on Synology NAS

I have often seen people who had a very old version of DSM installed on their NAS. This is because they have never exposed their NAS to the Internet in any way. They installed DSM years back in order to use their NAS for work and have not done any updates since. Today I will … Read more about Synology: How Do I Manually Update DSM?

The first time you installed DSM, Synology’s operating system, on your NAS, you were asked to enter a name for your device. At the time, that name was likely chosen in a hurry, and may not be what you really wanted to call your device. Today I will teach you how to change the name … Read more about Synology: How to Change Your NAS Name

Have you noticed that you no longer have space on your Synology NAS HDD/SSD disks? If you remember, there are some Synology Packages that will use up more space than expected: Cloud Station/Drive: If you use Cloud Station/Drive to synchronize folders, know that syncing shared folders requires twice the space of the shared folders for … Read more about Why Is My Synology NAS Storage Space Full?