Connect Finder Mac to Synology using SMB

No video

Connect Finder Mac to Synology using SMB | 4K TUTORIAL

Рет қаралды 75,546

Күн бұрын

Hi! In this video I will show you how to connect your Mac to your Synology using SMB. This will allow you to use your Synology folders directly from your Mac Finder without going into DSM.
Hire Me! www.spacerex.c...
This Tutorial in Text: www.spacerex.c...
SpaceRex Site!: www.SpaceRex.co
What is in my Rack: www.SpaceRex.c...
Top Synology Picks: www.spacerex.c...
Affilate Links:
Synology Recommendations:
Cheapest you can buy:geni.us/EJz4c
Most powerful 4 Bay: geni.us/pO2pcSJ
6 bays, with performance overhead: geni.us/GPSdKp
Insane Performance!: geni.us/N9BcW
12 Bays in a Desktop!: geni.us/vavmdU
Drives:
Hard drives that I use: geni.us/00RP
SSD I use with Synology: geni.us/2ZxlwE
Going 10GbE:
Synology 10GbE (RJ45) Card: geni.us/SrJZ
Starter 10GbE switch: geni.us/RrhEfj
10GbE ethernet to Thunderbolt 3 adapter: geni.us/Aa5qm
*These are affiliate links, which means that if you purchase a product through one of them, I will receive a small commission (at no additional cost to you). Thank you for supporting my channel!

Пікірлер: 187

@randre83 Жыл бұрын

A lot of people (including myself) are looking to learn how to set up remotely. This could be a nice opportunity to create a video for that and providing a link to that video on the comments section here. Thx for the vid!

@rennington 3 жыл бұрын

OMG you just saved me literally days, weeks, months of uploading. I've had my NAS for a couple of years and it always puzzled me that I had to upload via my browser (chrome) which would vary massively in speed but which even at its fastest was incredibly slow and meant I had to simply stop storing RAW files altogether. I really cannot thank you enough.

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Yeah a ton of people do not realize that the DSM stuff is "nice" but SMB is really what you use 90% of the time

@Brewyetphoto 9 ай бұрын

Between this video and your video about speeding up a NAS, you have allowed me to transfer files at over 1000mbps vs 10 before!!! THANK YOU!!

@EduSanchez Жыл бұрын

How to do this on external NAS? I can’t :(

@everythingiswhat 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Thank you! By the way, it’s deprecated, not depreciated.

@johnc3601 2 жыл бұрын

Great vid & thank you for speaking so clearly. I wish everyone that posted KZfaq videos spoke this clear. Most of them talk like they have marbles in their mouth.

@libertarian23 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!!! This is the best tutorial to connect the Synology NAS with my Macbook Pro!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@markpreston1385 Жыл бұрын

That’s great - nicely explained. But how do you stop the Mac from randomly dropping the drive? I can’t get any of the three macs in my household to stay connected to any of my three Synology NASs for more than a few minutes. It’s driving me mad!!

@rogerwoods2001 3 жыл бұрын

THAT WAS EFFING AMAZING! THANK YOU; I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS UNTIL I WATCHED YOUR VIDEO!

@Mr.P001 4 жыл бұрын

Another problem solved , thanks for a thorough tutorial

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

Haha I’m just glad my tutorials are able to cover everything. Are you finding things that I have not done that you are having trouble with. Always looking to make videos that are going to help people

@kevinr4275 3 жыл бұрын

Finally. Thanks so much. Genius video.

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@StuartGilman Жыл бұрын

This is very helpful for connecting to the Synology NAS when the mac is on the lan. Like some others, I am hoping to connect a mac that is used in a variety of remote locations. Do you have a related tutorial or advice for setting that up? Thanks!

@randre83 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been looking for this too.

@christianday Жыл бұрын

Everyone has and it seems next to impossible to find.

@eointhomas2914 Жыл бұрын

@@christianday I believe your only option would be to create a vpn and vpn into the location where the NAS is, not sure if Synoology Drive Sync can do this. Other option would be remote connect but that goes through a web page and not ideal

@JoshuaPrince-hl8nl 2 ай бұрын

This unfortunately doesn't seem to work for my setup. I created a static IP for my DS923+ connected directly to my iMac. It is also connected to my router ... which is the only way I can connect. But connecting to the static IP address fails every time.

@clearrock5636 2 жыл бұрын

This was an absolutelly incredible video, thank you so much!

@oficeptel6493 Жыл бұрын

Excellent, very informative. Thank you

@saurabhkaps123 11 ай бұрын

Hi - When I try to map my synology NAS Folder on mac via SMB, the photography folder is the only one that is unavailable. Every other folder is available. How do I fix that?

@SkipperMcCreight 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome awesome video!! Just a heads up. Deprecated vs depreciated.

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

lol just had to look up googles pronunciation of them. My brain has read deprecated as depreciated ever since I saw the word. Good info

@premiumbitter 3 жыл бұрын

Using SMB on macOS (latest Big Sur 11.4), and I can't seem to maintain the connection anymore. I'm not sure what has changed, but every couple hours the drives disappear from finder/desktop and I have to manually re-connect to the Synology over SMB. Do you have any tips (or videos) on troubleshooting unstable SMB connections with macOS?

@mattj7416 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I dont suppose you have a video on how to achieve this via cables too? Direct connection

@patrickhagot Жыл бұрын

What about smb from outside of your local network the way you did it now is only if connected to the local network but I travel it won't connect, how can I do it ?

@a1bi0rix174 5 ай бұрын

my mac cant find it tried with the ip and the quick connect name my pc finds it just fine not sure what is going on

@scienceofsound Жыл бұрын

I setup my Synology DS220+ over local network to my MacBook Pro M2 Max and everything worked up to the point of setting up the administration account. After saving the settings I lost my connection to local network with the device and I’ve been stranded ever since. I have no idea how to get my connection back and Synology’s support page has proven useless for Mac users. Have any ideas what I should do?

@therevengeofjeroenhouben 9 ай бұрын

While trying to connect to the server, my mac says "there was a problem connecting to server" and implies the server might not exist. None of the tutorials specify this problem. What could this mean?

@joeyrudd8781 3 ай бұрын

I have set up my 1821+ in the way that you have suggested in other videos and I am connected via SMB. However, I am having an issue where temp files are being created whenever I open and save a file (I especially have noticed this with word docs and .jpgs) It doesn't happen when I connect via AFP. Any ideas why this might be happening? Have you seen anything like this before? I am running Big Sur OS. It doesn't seem to happen on my other computer (Sierra OS) even when connected via SMB.

@sebdos Жыл бұрын

will this kill my PC connection to same server i i do this on my ac ? actuallly i cannot connect my new mac but oc goes fine...

@Strategicchoices 2 жыл бұрын

Yup. Worked by following every step. So, why has Synology not hired you yet? Will any new shared folder I create be automatically added to the mounted drive? I was waiting for you to explain how to work with future folders as my folder structures and demands grow.

@jackula123 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do this exact thing with an external drive plugged into the Synology?

8 ай бұрын

is there a way to create a bash file that mount the shared drive on NAS at boot of the Mac?

@SpaceRexWill 8 ай бұрын

You can actually just drag the shares into the macOS system preferences -> login items and they will connect at login

@ivanlau3230 2 жыл бұрын

hello, thanks for the video. I want to ask why every time I restart the Mac, the folder disappear and I need to start all over again the procedures

@voidanomaly8243 Жыл бұрын

When connecting to the NAS through finder like you did it says my password is incorrect, even though I know it is correct.

@FEDERICOpt 9 ай бұрын

Hi I love your videos good job! One question with this method can I access to my Synology from an other network? Like if I’m in the office (at work) can I still assess to my NAS at home ? Thanks!!

@AustenSummers Жыл бұрын

You look like the producer guy from Slappers Only

@babeksaber2702 8 ай бұрын

Informative as usual....Thx

@Boliccov 9 ай бұрын

Once we have entered our IP address, I want to use an alias rather than remembering the IP address in Finder

@kahmeelePy Жыл бұрын

Really nice video, however changing IP to static one in not required isn't it? When you are connecting to a server you can enter the local network device name - Tutorial in this case.

@TodColbert Жыл бұрын

I am having an issue where the shared drive disconnects and then requires me to reconnect. It is setup with a static IP as you suggest. Both SMB and AFP are enabled. Is that an issue?

@DanBuell 4 ай бұрын

Well, I just tried it and guess what, I can't access my NAS at all anymore - I'm a newbie and this is gonna suck...

@sahaniamit 2 жыл бұрын

Hi ! But it doesn't work from other WIFI network. I have NAS at office and when I want to access the folder and files from home or any outside network it doesn't allow me to do so with this method. can you share any solution?

@jigneshpatel-kj5wg 3 жыл бұрын

I am not able to connect with Finder on my MacBook Pro before it was working and suddenly stopped. Tried both option SMB and AFP still no luck, if you can share some light to fix this issue.

@globalneverlocal9898 8 ай бұрын

i updated my network interface IP settings and now i cannot connect to my drive at all. if someone has the answer to how i fix this please let me know.

@zeke111208 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. My Synology works great when I am on the same network (at home) and I can use DSM when away (at work). Is there a way to mount it when I am at work so I can bypass DSM? Using SMB, Mac's finder is not finding it when I'm at work, I thought with a static IP it should be able to locate it but I am new to all this. Thanks so much!

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

You would need to setup a vpn server or use Synology Drive

@sahaniamit 2 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill I also face the same problem, What kind of VPN server I have to use? please advise.

@DualStudios360 Жыл бұрын

Is there any way to be able to connect from the finder from afar this same way?

@shawnthale Жыл бұрын

What happens if the connection to that folder is broken. Do I really need to eject the folder every time I leave my location away from my wifi.

@SpaceRexWill Жыл бұрын

It will just eject, should be safe

@NicholasMora 4 жыл бұрын

Hej! I followed your instructions but I have a problem. I enter smb://myip it finds my server and it offers to enter username and password. But after entering everything correctly (tried loging in from the same computer via browser with the same credentials) the Enter your name and password... window just shakes like the credentials are not OK. Do you have any idea?

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

Check you user settings on synology and make sure SMB is allowed

@smrfingers 2 жыл бұрын

changed IP address now I cannot connect to it. How do I change it back if I cannot connect?

@UnculturedRobots 3 жыл бұрын

Would this work if I’m working remotely? And not in the same room where the Synology is based?

@Nick-pp1rk 2 жыл бұрын

@scotslater 2 жыл бұрын

Hello. Great video! Can you explain how to do this same exact thing but from a remote location? I would love to be able to access my NAS (Synology DS920+) through Finder from my office or a hotel room etc. I have access via browser through QuickConnect, but I am not sure how to access directly through Finder. Any help, steps, links etc you could share would be greatly appreciated. Blessings.

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

You are going to want to setup a VPN server and use that to connect

@kietvo2461 Жыл бұрын

following!

@oliverpower3477 4 жыл бұрын

Super helpful!!

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Always happy to help!

@mauricevieren 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to do this from an external network. Doesn't work with my synology.

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

You will want to either use webDAV or a VPN

@Nick-pp1rk 2 жыл бұрын

Nice alien music

@AlexKroke 3 жыл бұрын

SMB problem, my iMac catalina crashes every time I copy large folders to the Synology NAS. same over 2 different ethernet connection. FTP works fine

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Really strange. Have you checked the crash logs?

@R1pTheJacka 6 ай бұрын

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the NAS to show up in the LOCATIONS sidebar of FINDER. It originally showed up there as the IP Address upon setup, but I removed it so I could try and add it again with the name of my NAS showing instead of the IP. Now I cannot add anything to the Locations section of Finder. If anyone knows how to solve this I would be so grateful. Extremely frustrating how difficult this is

@kidkenezo 4 жыл бұрын

Do you have any tutorials on connecting NAS direclty to PC via 10GBe port? From research there's issues with the IP addresss asignment. Thanks Ken

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

In fact I do! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aKmJYKmfttzZdac.html It’s all about the subnet you assign

@kidkenezo 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill Thanks for this, I followed the DSM instructions as you did but had to follow another tutorial on setting static IP on a PC. Is there another solution for PC connection?

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like this should get you though on windows. www.howtogeek.com/howto/19249/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-address-in-xp-vista-or-windows-7/

@richardhanak4079 2 жыл бұрын

I have same settings, but when I open my folder, not all files showing I always mus eject and connect again and for while I can see them. I tried to enable hidden files, but result is same.

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

SMB disconnects from MacOS when it leaves the network. First time you have to re-connect to the server

@richardhanak4079 2 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill thank you for your answer, but files disappear after few seconds. Maybe problem is with to many folders in the one. When a moved some folder to another place in the same volume, files do not disappear. My SMB settings is minimum SMB2, max. SMB3, i should check limitation for SMB2.

@abunassir70 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks For the video. I have a problem in connecting my new synology over my home wifi. I am only able to connect when I connect directly to my router. However, over my wireless network, it fails to connect. Any idea what could be the problem?

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you might have a second network setup on your wireless access points. Try setting them to bridge mode. (You can verify this by checking your IP when directly connected to your router vs connected via wifi) should be your local IP 10.x or 192.168.x

@DaleSteadman 2 жыл бұрын

That was very helpful, thanks!

@jonathana.4187 3 жыл бұрын

Why do we need to Safely Eject? Is it really necessary when you are just connected via Wireless network?

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

It makes sure no programs are still using it. Think of opening a word doc, making edits, but not saving. If you lost the drive you would loose your edits

@BigMoney23223 3 жыл бұрын

How can I mount the shares to my desktop like it's a connected drive to the USB ports? Accessing the shares that way is much cleaner than opening up the DSM. When I get home/in network they mount just fine. It's when I leave the network they give errors per each share I created.

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

If you want to use them outside of your home network you will either need to use WebDAV (easiest) or setup a VPN server.

@latenttweet 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for Tutorial. are you from Maryland?

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

Grew up in NC, how come?

@zachb4047 3 жыл бұрын

Does mac remember the volume being there though? Like if i restarted the computer do I need to find the NAS every time?

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it does. As long as you are on the home network time machine will talk to the volume without you mounting it

@ayusharora8141 2 жыл бұрын

You are sharing a shared folder on Samba protocol. I was able to figure out that on my own. What I am looking for is to share everything. :-\

@RandomRichard2022 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I followed your steps, but when I go in finder and try to connect the server, it says: "There was a problem connecting to the server. There are no shares available or you are not allowed to access them on the server. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the problem." What can be causing this and how could I fix it. Thank you so much.

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

make sure you connected with a user with permissions to a shared folder over smb

@robertbrown3121 2 жыл бұрын

Am I right in assuming that this process only works with a Mac if it’s physically connected to the router via a network cable? If so, what would be the process if using Wi-Fi please?

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

Works the same using WiFi. Just slower

@robertbrown3121 2 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill Thanks for the quick reply (great video). I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong then, as I only seem to be able to even see the NAS if I connect a network cable between my Mac and my router. SMB is definitely enabled on the NAS as I can open the Files app on IPad (which is obviously in Wi-Fi) and it prompts me for a username and password then.

@Dilandau88 3 жыл бұрын

Super helpful. Thank you

@ryangolla 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, very easy to follow and simple! :)

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@minnami778 3 жыл бұрын

I got a problem. I can write a video file 3 GB with the write speed from 48 to 70 MB/s over Wi-Fi . But when I went to write my work, mostly a folder with small files and subfolders (programming code files) , the speed drop to average of 200- 300 KB/s 😭 I did some research and they said i should set Transport encryption mode to Disable in SMB Advance setting. It does help quite a bit because before I disable this setting I got only 10 KB/s. Do you have any suggestions or work around over this issue? Thank you very much

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

If you have tons of tiny files (Esp over wifi with higher latency) then you can just have really slow write speeds

@epereyralucena Жыл бұрын

how i do it if its a company nas, and they just gave me a user and a password, should i ask for an ip or how lol

@skywayphotography-larrysmi2446 7 ай бұрын

I get stuck at the point after CMD K. It wont accept my password

@SpaceRexWill 7 ай бұрын

Check that the username is the NAS username

@danielciraldo7223 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial. I have my volumes already mounted to the computer (and connected hard-wire via ethernet cord). However, when I search in finder on a mounted volume, it shows no results. In fact, as soon as I start typing in the search on finder, the tab goes from the mounted volume to "This Mac"... is this a known issue, or am I doing something wrong? Would love to be able to search through my NAS easily from finder.

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

From what I have read it seems like Apple stoped indexing smb shares for spotlight. I wish smb would have a built in standard for server based indexing (like what synology does) that way if you have 100 machines connected you only have to index the server once not 100x

@jackula123 3 жыл бұрын

Are you able to share the whole drive instead of just a folder?

@slayerd52 3 жыл бұрын

Help! I want to be able to access my files from my NAS through finder but not be limited to a local network! I work on the road and would love to be able to connect to the internet and have access to my files from anywhere in the world! Do you have any guides on this ? If not can you recommend one ??

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Create a VPN server and connect back to your home network with an encrypted connection! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fqyPicqnuJ-Ue3U.html

@DylanEdmunds 3 жыл бұрын

why is there no undo functionality for deleting files. seems really dumb that you have to go to the recycle bin and move it manualy

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Thats a SMB limitation I believe

@crgr83 3 жыл бұрын

What is BTRFS

@premiumbitter 3 жыл бұрын

Will Spotlight be able to index the files on this folder? If not, is there a way to have it index folders on my NAS?

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately there is no way to setup spotlight on a SMB share with Mac. You can easily search through DSM however

@premiumbitter 3 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill bummer, thanks for getting back to me!

@brendanmurphy5081 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to mount Synology drive to my finder? I ask because I want to be able to access the folder when I am not on the same network. IOS makes it easy to mount the Synology drive to locations in the files app. Is there a way to mount Synology drive to locations in finder?

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

If you are outside of your home network your best bet is to either use a VPN server (and VPN back in), mount WebDAV, or use quick connect (quick connect does not use finder)

@brendanmurphy5081 2 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill Do you know of any free VPNs I could use?

@indermannsingh1189 2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to save it like whenever I restart my Mac I want the Shared folder to appear automatically?

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

There are scripts to do it on boot but the other issue you will have is that MacOS does not stick to the server as well as windows does so sometimes you will fall off it anyway and have to rejoin it.

@indermannsingh1189 2 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill there is a check mark and the computer does itself. U need some lessons dude

@nijaskooloth8397 3 жыл бұрын

In this, can we use mounting for accessing files in any wifi that we are using

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

you are going to want to setup a vpn server: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fqyPicqnuJ-Ue3U.html and use the to connect with SMB

@gerrit412 4 жыл бұрын

Knowing that this is a very generic issue but do you have any hints if your described way doesn't work? I am able to choose which folder I want to connect in finder but then it appears an error message that an error occurred. Thanks for your help on this (afp-connection works fine though).

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

So a few ideas: 1: Do you happen to have 2 routers on your network? 2: are you connecting locally to it? 3: have you configured any SSH settings? 4: what version of dsm/ mac is do you use? 5: whoever you are signing in with do they have permission to the folder you have selected?

@gerrit412 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill Thanks for your quick response! After struggling a bit, I guess I made it. It seems that due to the already established afp-connection, my Mac was not able to connect via smb. Cheers again and stay healthy!

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

Glad it all worked out! And you too!

@inderids 3 жыл бұрын

Will this setup work with remote access ? I mean if I setup this on my iPad and will my iPad able to access it from anywhere ?

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

You will want to hook up a VPN sever to do this as SMB should not be done over the internet

@inderids 3 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill I just finished watching your VPN Server video. I am planning to create a Home office cloud that I can use anywhere with my ipad and MacBook . Thanks for the great tip and great videos !

@UnculturedRobots 3 жыл бұрын

is there a way to get link directly from finder?

@dakdur1126 3 жыл бұрын

So do I have to eject the damn drive anytime I leave my home or close my computer??? That is so unrealistic! There is literally like NO instructions for using Mac and MacBook Pro with NAS im so suffering here

@bryantribolet 3 жыл бұрын

uhm... you shouldn't use 255 not good network practice man ....unless you're planning to flood broadcast

@shinkji 3 жыл бұрын

Can i use this setup to allocate a space in my nas for mac “Time Machine”?

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

You can set a maximum storage size by setting the max side of the shared folder

@uneCENT 4 жыл бұрын

Will the desktop link remain after a reboot, or do I need to connect to the NAS after every reboot of the MAC?

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

It will unmount on shutdown. There are ways to do it to setup to automatically mount on boot so it is always there

@felixrachel 3 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill how can it be made to automatically mount on boot?

@spiritsblues 4 жыл бұрын

Hi - I had issues with TM & eventually found your archive - which I am grateful to have found!!! I am eternally grateful for your work - I solved my original issue after 5 days of frustration!!! I sorted the issue across my Synology NAS which was fantastic. As an after thought I ended up switching from AFP to SMB on both MacBook Pros - one runs High Sierra the other Mojave. I created fresh shared folders and set them up as per your video. The only issue is that TM doesn't recognise or report the the instances of backup. Looking at the TM prefs in the app - it states "oldest backup none - latest backup none" - however the files exist on the NAS in the folder and I can see the TM files thru TM app on the desktop. Could this be the version of the OS system; should I go back to AFP perhaps or what would you suggest?

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

So since you changed backup locations it no longer sees those as backups. What you need to do is setup a new backup disk in TM and then select the share with the files. Then it should realize there is already a TM backup there and say “do you want to use this” Make sure after you backup to then “verify backups” and try restoring an old file just to be sure!

@spiritsblues 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill Hey thanks - I actually had set up a new share folder for each Mac. What I didn't do was log each Mac into the network under their own login - it appears that was why TM was not reporting the stats from the backups. I noticed when I had the DCM open that each Mac was logging in as the admin - so I changed it to individual logins and boom it is all correct as of this morning Queensland time Australia. Thanks for all your help and keep up the great videos!!!

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Happy to help!

@wearekasule 4 жыл бұрын

hi - thanks for that - quick question. can my colleague ( who is already a user to the drive connect to this from his home ? Thanks Stephen.

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

To do this he would have to set up a VPN (if you wanted to use SMB) I would say that the easiest way for you do allow him to access remotely is using WebDAV. It more or less works over HTTPS protocol so there is little change that really needs to be done!

@wearekasule 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill hi thanks for the reply. I'm a complete novice to all of this (graphic designer working from home) , I don't suppose you could direct me to anything giving instructions for this ? tried a wee search but can't seem to see anything. thanks in advance. Stephen.

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

Shoot so sorry. I just saw this reply. I actually have a video coming out tomorrow if this is still an issue. KZfaq only shows me parent comments in the app, not the replies

@andrewg1622 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure why but I’ve found AFP more reliable than SMB for my Mac / Synology setup

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

I do love AFP (better performance) but unfortunately apple has killed it off. I have also heard reports of Synology's AFP implementation causing file corruption, but I have never seen this firsthand

@daniel-nguyen 4 жыл бұрын

I am having an issue where, when I send a server path URL to someone else in my network, who has connected to the Synology in the same exact manner that I have, it mounts a subfolder I sent them to as a new drive. For instance, if I send to a folder on the Music drive, it mounts the subfolder as a new drive instead of just sending them to the same path location on their already mounted drive. Any ideas?

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

I would assume that this was from the two of you mounting the drives in separate ways. Is this Mac or PC. If it’s a PC you should both mount to a common drive letter For a Mac you can just do /volumes/Music

@daniel-nguyen 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill We are both using Macs to mount the drive. I can try that, but it defeats the whole benefit of being able to hit "CTRL,COMMAND,OPTION, C" to copy the path. If I do that I'll have to get the path manually every time, ya know?

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

So what is the actual path when you copy it? Is it /volume/xyz or is it /volume

@daniel-nguyen 4 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill smb://HAL9000/Files/Google%20Drive , that's the path. But if I paste that into a message, it creates a new drive called Google drive, even if I just do /Files/Google Drive, it still mounts a drive called Google Drive, so dumb

@daniel-nguyen 4 жыл бұрын

@spaceRex , apparently it is a problem with Mac OS, and the only way to get this done is to route the traffic via WebDAV? apple.stackexchange.com/questions/387216/problems-with-macos-path-on-synology-nas-smb/387266?noredirect=1#comment529477_387266

@marvinprice7284 3 жыл бұрын

Deprecating not depreciating. De-pre-cate. To discourage use of.

@allennunez9858 4 жыл бұрын

can you also connect outside your network like that?

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

So what you are going to want to do is then set up a VPN server to access remotely: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fqyPicqnuJ-Ue3U.html

@allennunez9858 3 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill Thanks a lot I followed your tutorial and now I'm able to connect outside my network using smb

@DylanEdmunds 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks brah

@yankee-in-london 3 жыл бұрын

I'm seeing MUCH MUCH worse performance on SMB writes versus AFP. Using Aja as a benchmarking tool I get 2mb/sec write versus 108 mb/sec read on SMB. On AFP I get write speeds of roughly 50mb/sec (this is using the 256mb test file).

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Do you have encrypted SMB turned on?

@yankee-in-london 3 жыл бұрын

The Synology -- a RS819 -- is a bit underpowered but i have wired connections (currently just 1gb/sec but about too bond the 2nd ethernet for 2gb/sec)

@yankee-in-london 3 жыл бұрын

Note, however, that even though the RS819 is underpowered, that the CPU and all other utilization measures were barely impacted at all by the test above

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

No signed SMB is super slow as it taxes both systems

@yankee-in-london 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I don't ... meaning I simply went into Control Panel -> File Services and turned off the AFP radio button and turned on the NFS radio button. No advanced features or anything else was changed (and no animals were hurt in the shooting of this test). How do I make 100% sure?

@rennington 3 жыл бұрын

I've switched my mac off and gone back to it later and now the shared folders do not appear in finder. Logged back into DSM and all the settings are still the same I just cannot see anything in finder

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

So you just have to connect to Sever again in finder. Hit CMD+K and enter and it will connect back.

@rennington 3 жыл бұрын

@@SpaceRexWill ahhhh gotcha. I’m a dummy. Thanks so much for replying again....really kind of you. Cheers 🙏🏻

@honestview 4 жыл бұрын

Hi, was wondering if you could help: My DS218+ on a mac has been acting weird: 1. when I delete a folder, it never deletes it on one go, it stops, tells me x file is in use, then I have to delete again, many times, sometimes 100's of times in order to delete a folder. (no files are actually being used). 2. sometimes it slows down my mac, so badly that I have to disconnect from my NAS in order to even use the finder at all. I even made a video of the problem, and sent it to Synology, but they did not reply: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLeUrNKg1tO2c58.html

@SpaceRexWill 4 жыл бұрын

Hi, that is weird. Are you using SMB?

@krysamon 3 жыл бұрын

Agradecemos sua compra!

@SpaceRexWill 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@MrShaggyDEE 4 жыл бұрын

Great video thank you! Little suggestion though. You might want to ease off the compression you're using on your mic. Your voice is pumping and it can be quite distracting. Easy fix though. Thank you again!

@SergiiStarodubtsev 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I don't see any sense doing it. If you have small Adobe cloud subscription, just 1. drop what you want to edit, edit it there, then move to your local/synology folder the result. 2. Repeat. The catalog file is already in Adobe cloud, no need putting it to synology. So no value in using synology here. All that talk about high speed internet etc, also unnecessary. What is left, from what you said: you created a shared folder 📂 in synology, ok. Let me know what I missed. Thx.

@SpaceRexWill 2 жыл бұрын

Doing this just allows you to edit everything directly out of finder, meaning you don't need to download them at all

@Jake-Curious 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, I was looking for a connection over internet... lost my time (

@ayusharora8141 2 жыл бұрын

Found the official video from the Synology Team for iOS, macOS and iPadOS for non shared drives. (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9SRY92kz7mXdWw.html. Maybe this might help people.