Synology NAS guides covering storage, backups, Docker, networking and services used throughout Realm Labs.
Synology SMB access denied even though Active Directory groups, GPOs and folder ACLs look correct? This real homelab case reveals the Advanced Share Permissions setting that fixed it.
A real MariaDB 10.11 to 12.3 upgrade on Synology, fixing WordPress's broken Docker network and scheduling verified nightly SQL backups before WUD updates.
How I migrated from Watchtower to What's Up Docker on Synology, with selective 02:00 auto-updates, Portainer, Telegram alerts and a real Plex update test.
My working Synology Docker watchdog: Watchtower checks selected Portainer containers at 2 AM, recreates updated images, and alerts via Telegram only on changes or failures.
A real homelab migration from Synology Docker to Proxmox LXCs: Grafana dashboards, Prometheus TSDB history, SNMP Exporter, Synology-hosted YAML sync, NFS gotchas, rollback and actual RAM savings.
Grafana dashboards became painfully slow even though CPU and RAM looked fine. The real cause was a duplicate Docker MAC address on a Synology-hosted bridge network — and the fix exposed a useful lesson about stale neighbour entries too.
I wanted a cleaner way to deploy and recover Windows machines without carrying USB installers around. This is how I split PXE boot services onto a Raspberry Pi while keeping WinPE, Windows images and deployment files on my Synology NAS — including the DHCP, TFTP and port 69 problems I hit along the way.
This one looked like it should take about thirty seconds. My Synology NAS had moved to a new static IP address. One of my Proxmox storage entries still pointed at the old address. So I did the obvious thing: Proxmox…
When I first started experimenting with Active Directory in Realm Labs, the obvious platform was Windows Server. That’s what Active Directory is built around, after all. I already had Windows Server running virtually under Proxmox, which gave me somewhere to…
Docker permissions can be confusing enough on a normal Linux machine. Add a Synology NAS, an NFS share and containers running under different user IDs, and things get interesting very quickly. This particular problem appeared when I started storing application…