[Pc_Support] Re: Synology DS-106 w/FTPS (explicit) access

[Damien McKenna]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> I've pretty much given up on finding an all-in-one SOHO
> Firewall/NAS/Remote Gateway.  But thanx to Damien McKenna, I have found
> a solid NAS device with FTP-SSL/TLS** access:
> http://www.synology.com/enu/products/DS106/spec.php
>   
It sure looks pretty nifty.  I'm also looking at the *Thecus N2050
series which are eSATA drives with built-in RAID 0 and 1, those would be
pretty darn wonderful for easy & reliable external expansion on
miniature systems (think: Mac Mini).*

> **FileZilla makes an excellent, easy-to-use, FTP-SSL/TLS client.
>   
Too bad they don't have plain-jane SSH & SFTP, would have been better
IMHO.  Ah well, maybe in a ROM upgrade..

> They are available for $279 from NewEgg.COM:  
>   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822108003  
>   

A bit expensive though.

> Note, the $50 cheaper DS-106e/j versions are _not_ the same, they do not
> offer FTPS support, only FTP.  It also offers both USB and eSATA drive
> support, as well as the internal SATA.  And it has a GbE.
>   

Good to know, I noticed their site *really* needs a comparison table.

> They only offer 100 shared folders and 128 user accounts, but that's
> fine to start IMHO.  Ironically enough, not much more is offered in
> their $600, 4 drive versions (1,024 user accounts, but still only 100
> shared folders).
>   
That would be 100 *separate* *shares*, obviously you could share one
folder and add sub-directories.

> For those of you Mac users, you might like the fact that it has
> AppleTalk and other Mac-centric client support too!  Some other cool
> protocol support is also included.
>   

Also... because it has MySQL and PHP you could install Gallery2 and use
the Gallery2 exporter for iPhoto to put your photos in a network-shared
album.  I do wish, though, that they used Gallery2 by default rather
than their own system, it would give it much more flexibility.

-- 
Damien McKenna, husband, father, geek.
damien at mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/