Skip to main content

Synology: Commonly Used Commands

Synology ds120j

Commonly used commands via ssh with Synology NAS.

Synology Cheat Sheet

sudo -i : Login as root
synoindex -R video : Reindex video files

User management

There is no passwd command, user synouser command instead.

Synology command: synouser

Create new user 'tuyen' with password '1' and permission to access FTP (0x01), Audio Station (0x04) and Surveillance Station (0x10)

admin@DiskStation:~$ sudo /usr/syno/sbin/synouser --add tuyen 1 "Tuyen Dang" 0 tuyen@company.com 21

Re-index files

Re-index video files to remove deleted videos from being listed in DS Video

admin@DiskStation:~$ synoindex -R video

Popular posts from this blog

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Evaluation Product Key

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Evaluation D2N9P-3P6X9-2R39C-7RTCD-MDVJX DBGBW-NPF86-BJVTX-K3WKJ-MTB6V

Statistics and Probability: Free Online Courses

"I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I’m joking, but who would’ve guessed that computer engineers would’ve been the sexy job of the 1990s?" — Hal Varian , The McKinsey Quarterly, January 2009

VMware vSphere Hypervisor Free Version

Bare in mind that VMware vSphere Hypervisor Free Version comes with limitations Maximum 2 physical CPUs Maximum 8 vCPU per VM Cannot add to vCenter when using free license key. VMware vSphere Hypervisor Free Version supports unlimited cores per CPU and unlimited physical memory . Where to download VMware vSphere Hypervisor Free Version VMware: VMware vSphere Hypervisor (64 bit) VMware vSphere Hypervisor 8.0 (11 October 2022): https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/evalcenter?p=free-esxi8 VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.x: https://my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi6