Cloud Station [merged thread]

[bladehawk]

I am having the problem of not being able to connect because of the required TCP port being blocked by my company. I can easily connect with my iPhone via 3G, but as soon as I'm on the company network, nothing goes.
This will be an issue. Most commercial networks block unnecessary ports, be it at work, in a hotel, or at a coffee shop. And if I can't access my cloud from anywhere but home, what good does it do me?
Other Cloud services like, e.g., DropBox or iCloud access their servers via port 80 or 443, which are open pretty much everywhere. For the new Cloud Server to be useful, it needs to follow that example.

If your router is smart enough. You can map external por 80 to internal port 6690 and bypass your office limitation. Another alternative is mapping external port 443 to internal port 6690.

I have the same issue and I can log into my DSM, I force SSH on (public) port 443 and Cloudstation doesn't work. I've even tried connecting via the hostname and forcing a port... cloudstation is raining for me .

[bladehawk]

You can make an SSH tunnel and use the cloud station over SSH.

SSH is blocked at the router..... 1st thing I tried

I.... Hate.... This.... company's ...IT... department.

They are actually competent .

[quietsy]

Just use port 443 for SSH, it will surely pass.

[jwaxman]

quietsy wrote:
You can make an SSH tunnel and use the cloud station over SSH.

Can you point me to instructions for this?

[quietsy]

These are the steps in general:
Enable SSH in the NAS
Port forward some port to 22 in the NAS
Make a connection using putty to your DDNS address of the NAS
Go to connection > ssh > tunnels
Make a tunnel with source port=6690, destination=<nas ip>:6690 and click Add
Go back to session, save and open
Now in cloud station connect to localhost and it should work

[bladehawk]

Just use port 443 for SSH, it will surely pass.

Tried that too. The newest firewall/router's software can block SSH, even over port 443, or so I was told by my friend who is a senior network engineer.

[quietsy]

I wish my IT department would give me a challenge like that

[maxxfi]

If they block SSH even on port 443, then probably the firewall inspect all contents on all ports.
At this point, it's probably simpler if you ask your network overlords to know which connections are allowed, and see if there is anything that can be adapted to your needs.

[PD24]

So let me get this straight, DSM 4.0 will allow me to double click on a icon on my USB stick which will allow me to then save my work documents while I’m at work and it will automatically save without the need of FTP etc. It will connect to my "cloud" at home seamlessly??????

If this is true then it sounds too good to be true if it isn’t true add this to the feature requests!!

[weehaggis]

When I try to download and run the cloudstation setup, my Norton 360 sees it as a threat and removes the file. What should I be doing here?

Below is the report from Norton.

Full Path: c:\users\grant\downloads\synology-cloudstation-setup-2166.exe
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On computers as of:
22/01/2012 at 12:43:35
Last Used:
22/01/2012 at 13:51:34
Startup Item:
No
Launched:
No
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Few Users
Fewer than 50 users in the Norton Community have used this file.
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Medium
This file risk is medium.
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Threat Details
Threat type: Insight Network Threat. There are many indications that this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe
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Origin
Downloaded from http://ukdl.synology.com/download/beta/ ... p-2166.exe
http://ukdl.synology.com/download/beta/ ... p-2166.exe Downloaded File synology-cloudstation-setup-2166.exe
(WS.Reputation.1) from: synology.com


synology-cloudstation-setup-2166.exe
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File Actions
File: c:\users\grant\downloads\synology-cloudstation-setup-2166.exe
Removed
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File Thumbprint - SHA:
2988861894a9466ae7455f2b802098362f3d064a4f149d1c1bf0c5095f4e6059
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File Thumbprint - MD5:
c3e9459ad6b052f2babd685eafdf2e6d
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[quietsy]

Very true!

I have a folder at work PC, at home PCs and on the NAS, when I copy a file to that folder on one of the locations, they all sync that file instantly.

[barthold]

Is it possible to encrypt the data in the Cloudstation folders automatically? Seems that is not possible, as DSM does not let you encrypt the "homes" folder. Is that correct?

Thanks!

[vaya_putada]

Hi,

Mi cloud station doesn't works. I opened a case/bug with this text:

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Hi,

I don't know if is a bug or not. I connect to my CloudStation from one PC, and everything works fine. Ok. I put 2,5Gb at my shared folder locally on this PC and everything is copied to the DS209 vía CloudStation.

At this point, I have one PC shyncronized with my DS209. Then, I want to shyncronize another PC and I install CloudStation client on it. Configuration is OK and this PC starts to shyncronice.

30 minutes later, the status is at the imagen attached. Apparently CloudStation aren't creating files. At the CloudStation menú aren't showed any files modified. At the Windows Explorer nothing appears. But the traffic on the LAN are 10MB/sec (around 80Mbps and this box is connected to a 100Mbps port).

I expect other results, files appearing little by little and the menu upgrading constantly.

Is correct this behaviour? Do the process finish and will my files appear when everything is copied?

I don't know at all. I was waitting for around 60 minutes and nothing happens.

Thanks!

Regards.

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Finally, I killed the process because nothing happens and it doesn't shyncronice anything.

Are you working ok with various PC's¿¿ Anyone has this problems?¿

Thanks!

[vaya_putada]

Tested on two different PC's.

One, Windows 7 32 bit physical machine.

Other, Windows 7 32 bit VMWare machine.

Similar behaviour in two machines. Continuous loop and data from the box, but never shyncronized.

Also tried to get packets with Wireshark and I can see the same file one time and other and other...

Regards!

[vaya_putada]

Hi,

I'm doing some new tests at work with another PC with Winddows Vista, and apparently it works OK.

Is possible that the cloud station client has any issue with Windows 7??? Someone can test this scenario?

Thanks!

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