NAS-Central & Foonas Weblog

All Users that own a Netgear NAS look at

• Netgear Devices
  

Its linked on the right side like everything else.

Just before the maintainance we added 2 new wikis for zyxel and thecus NAS-devices.

• Thecus Devices
• Zyxel Devices

Remember that all wikis are editable anonymously, but in case we have to turn that off you only need to register once in the forum at http://forum.nas-central.org and you can login in all wikis with your forum user/pass.

Quoted from the article General_NAS_customisation_guide:

“The time when i started hacking on my first NAS (the first generation Linkstation) in 2005 there was no general article or guide how to hack it at all. The only thing that was existing at these days were reviews. Actually many NAS-hacking-communities have emerged the past years with wikis/forums/mailings lists….but still nobody ever wrote a general article about how to start hacking them, and what should be done to channel development efforts and how to start a new community. This article should cover exactly this, treat it as a source of base information and as a loose guide as all devices are different and many things have to be redone each time for each new box. As NAS are embedded devices you can use this guide for hacking your embedded router as well.

I hope others are joining me in the challenge of creating this guide“

In case you already have a NAS device (or if you plan to buy a NAS because of christmas), take a look at the global NAS hacking communities overview. This page was created to help you to find the right NAS community (which hacks your box) or to support you if you are investigating which NAS devices are supported by a community.

Several subwikis were created for the NAS-scene. The plan is to submit general articles and howtos to the main wiki at NAS Central and to put all the device specific information to the subwikis. As the NSLU2-Linux community faced the problem that they hacked several devices but still had all of them on the http://nslu2-linux.org page it was confusing for many users. This should change now. Please submit hardware info to the several subwikis by clicking on the device you have and enter some information in the table.

• Buffalo Devices
• D-Link devices
• Iomega devices
• Lacie devices
• Linksys devices
• Maxtor devices
• QNAP devices
• Synology devices

In Apples OS X Leopard out of the box it is not possible to use AFP shares from Linux based storage devices with its main new feature, Time Machine. We were really disappointed with this since this functionality featured in various pre-release versions of 10.5, especially with all the NAS devices we have sitting around! Cue Engadget for tip of the day! Open a terminal and enter the following command:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Bingo! Hit Time Machine in System Preferences to configure your mac to use your NAS for a good sweet backup. Enjoy!

Various developers at Marvell are aiming to get support for various Orion SoC based platforms included in the mainline vanilla Linux kernel and have just published a git repository of work so far. This will hopefully have a significant impact on NAS hacking communities with the popularity of this hardware in currently available devices, many of whom have been stuck with old vendor specific code for some time.

In terms of foonas this will bring improved support for the Kurobox Pro initially with various ARM based Buffalo Linkstations to follow.