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CONFIGURE NFS ON A SYNOLOGY

Here is how I configure NFS on my synoloy so that I can copy files from my synology over to my Ubuntu 22.04 AI system that uses a JBOD

Login into your synology

Click Control Panel

Click File Services

Select the NFS Tab at the top

Place a checkmark next to Enable NFS

I use NFSv3

Then Click Apply or Save/

Go back to Control Panel

Then select Shared Folder

Click on the Share that you want to Enable NFS on

Click Edit

Then click NFS Permissions

Select Create

Type in the IP for your Ubuntu 22.04 computer and make sure the rest of the settings are set just like the picture here:

Click Save

Then on your Ubuntu box you will want to

Open a Terminal

sudo su –

cd /mnt

sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.100:/volume1/Folder /mnt/synology

replace Folder with your actual folder, and use the ip of the share you want to copy from

cd /mnt/synology

cp -R -v /mnt/synology/* /media/ubuntu/JBOD\ Disk\ 5/

this will copy everything from the synology folder that is connected to your synology, and it will place it into JBOD disk 5 (change the paths to whatever you need for you)

SPEED UP YOUR SYNOLOGY WITH THIS

By default your MTU is 1500. Here is how you increase it to 9000 to enable Jumbo Frames, with no network impact. It will speed up your system because it does not have to repeatedly send the header info on every small packet.

Login into your Synology

Go to Control Panel

Select Network

Then go to Network Interface

Select Lan 1

Then press Edit

Checkmark MTU and set the value to 9000

Click Ok

Click Yes

Then do the same for Lan 2

Thats it. You now have jumbo frames

UNABLE TO ADD MOVIES TO PLEX ON A SYNOLOGY

This is a common issue when you first install the synology.

To fix it you simply need to allow the proper permissions on the Share.

Log into your synology

Click Control Panel

Edit your Shares

And set the permissions as shown here:

Plex needs Read/Write access

Save it

Now you can go back to your Synology Plex App

Add the library

You will most likely find your files in Volume 1 \ Plex

FASTEST WAY TO COPY FILES BETWEEN TWO SYNOLOGY NAS DEVICES

Windows is slow…takes weeks to copy 15TB between two devices if you use explorer. Here is how you copy the files in hours instead of weeks.

On your Windows 11 computer

Open Explorer

Navigate to Synology 1

Map a Drive from your Windows 11 pc to the Synology Share
ex. Drive X will be \\Synology1\Share

Now do the same for Synology 2 and the share you want to map.
ex. Drive Y will be \\Synology2\Share

On your Windows 11 pc, now open PowerShell (not as Administrator, just open PowerShell)

Type:
robocopy ‘X:\FolderYouAreCopyingFrom’ ‘Y:\FolderYouAreCopyingTo’ /S /E /MT:32 /NFL /NDL /NJH /NJS

example: robocopy ‘X:\SourceCode\Documents’ ‘Y:\NewSourceCodeRepo\Documents’ /S /E /MT:32 /NFL /NDL /NJH /NJS /V

You will copy thousands of files per second over a 1GbE network

FLEXING COPILOT – INSTALL PYTHON ON WINDOWS

I have been finding out copilot’s limitations recently and to handle some items, I need to run python, using copilot generated code, so i can parse the data in my sharepoint library. For this article we will look at how to install python.

Open Windows Store

Search for Python

Click Install/Get

Once it is installed you can open a Command Prompt by:
Click Search in your Windows 11 task bar at the bottom of the screen

Type cmd

Then lets try to install some python packages at the C:\ prompt. You can do this by typing
pip install PyPDF2 pandas

If it installs, your python installation is successful

HOW TO SETUP A TOR ONIONSITE ON APACHE

Here is a simple how-to guide on setting it up in 2024

First you will want a server that has nothing on it and is not publicly available. I suggest getting a spare PC, or setting it up on a VM.

Make sure the PC/VM is on a standalone VLAN and behind a firewall so no other traffic can get to it. Open NO Ports, setup No NATs, TOR does not need them open to function properly.

First, Install Ubuntu Server 22.04 or Ubuntu Server 24.04

Then ssh into the server

Type:
sudo su –

dpkg –print-architecture

If it is either amd64, arm64 or i386, it will work, if it is not any of those structures, find a different system to run it on.

Type:
apt install apt-transport-https

lsb_release -a

What is your version of linux? It wil be listed as something like
Codename: focal
or
Codename: jammy
or whatever the latest flavor is

Install Apache:
apt-get update

apt install apache2

mv /var/www/html/index.html /var/www/html/index.html.orig

nano /var/www/html/index.html

Type in
Hi, You Found Me!

Save and Exit

Now Type:
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

nano tor.list

paste in this:
deb     [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main

Change <DISTRIBUTION> to focal or jammy or whatever, so it looks like this:
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org jammy main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org jammy main

Save and Exit

Now type:
wget -qO- https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg –dearmor | tee /usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null

apt update

apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

nano /etc/tor/torrc

Uncomment these lines by deleting the #

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80

Save and Exit

systemctl restart tor

systemctl restart apache2

cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname

and your onion site will show like this:
longleycr37tvhhrxmbs3buk3ze6vtpyouz3gy6uytdqqfvoiqrf3yyd.onion

Now you can go to a site like torgateway.com and browse to that onion site to ensure it is live. I would prefer if you actually used your own tor browser instead using a setup like the one I created here for Tor and Tails.

Enjoy the darkweb!

HOW TO ACCESS TOR SAFELY

This is a quick How-To on installing Tails OS to a USB Drive, so you can use TOR on any computer, Anywhere

To start, on your computer:

Download BalenaEtcher and install it

Visit https://tails.net/ to get your copy of Tails, which was created by the makers of TOR

Download Tails, the latest version

Insert a USB into your Computer

Open BalenaEtcher

Click Flash From File

Select Tails

Select Target

Select your USB Drive

Click Flash!

Once it is done being flashed, you can put it in a computer to use

Boot/Reboot the computer

Select your USB Drive on startup

Tails will begin!

Once you are in Tails, to use TOR, click Activities in the Top Left

Select Tor Browser

Connect the circuit to the tor network.

Once connected to Tor you can test it by visiting my website:

Go to https://jaylongley.com and navigate to the Contact Page

Note that UBlock Origin has found trackers on my website. It finds google analytics and whatnot. This is supposed to happen. You will see why in a minute.

There you will see a tor address. Copy that address

Open a new tab in Tor

Place the Onion address that you received from my contact page, and navigate there

You will see my darkweb page appear

Now note UBlock Origin, has NO trackers here. To use Tor and ensure your safety, only work with pages and sites that do not track you!

Happy Surfing

HOW TO UPDATE FIREFOX TO THE LATEST VERSION

Quick how-to for updating Firefox with screenshots included.

Open Firefox

Click the hamburger icon (shown below) which is in the top right of your computer screen

Click Help (shown below) then select About

If there is an update, it will show here, if the update is installed you will need to restart the browser as shown. And that is it!