Wenda

Wenda is a Synology Diskstation DS218J

Wenda is a NAS, so, I store files on it.

DSM version 7.2.2

MAC address: 00:11:32:a2:03:43

History

• 2024-11-21 Trying to reset this thing so it works again. Installed DSM from scratch. I had to enabled DHCP on the ERX router, because Wenda is the DHCP server and after a reset, it needs to be a DHCP client instead. After this round of changes I left the DHCP server on the router.
• 2024-11-19 Ordered 2 7200RPM Seagate Iron Wolf 12TB drives.
• 2024-11-18 Here is the situation. Wenda has a bwilson account, but I changed something somewhere so bwilson is in /etc/passwd but does not show up in "Users & Groups" in the WUI. I am going to make a copy of everything then do a factory reset. I'd prefer to replace the whole box with a Real Computer but not today. It costs money.

• 2020-02-02 WD Red 8TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD80EFAX
• 2019-06-19 Purchased from Newegg. Used a couple drives that I had on the shelf initially.

Services

• DHCP Server
• Synology Drive
• Photo Station and Moments.

Printing

Brother HL-L2320D laser printer is on a USB port and shows up as "usbprinter1".

Windows

The way to get printing working on Windows was to install Synology Assistant and then let it locate Wenda and the printer. I downloaded and installed the Brother drivers first.

Mac

Finds it over Bonjour. Select the printer driver manually.

Linux Mint

I don't remember doing anything special, it just showed up when I looked for printers. Probably Bonjour.

Set up

DDNS

To add Cloudflare as a DDNS provider, see https://github.com/mrikirill/SynologyDDNSCloudflareMultidomain

Wenda Control Panel->External Access->DDNS will feed the IP address directly into the Cloudflare database, so that external lookups will resolve to our home IP address.

The ERX router has to forward traffic for ports 5000,5001,6690 to Wenda.

Let's Encrypt

Control Panel -> Security -> Certificate

The only way I could see to make this work is via HTTP-01 which means port 80 needs to be open and point to Wenda