Comments on: Change folders for Synology media server

By: nothrem

nothrem — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:11:12 +0000

Thanks for great guide.

I have just one note: I you write the scripts on Windows and then upload it to the device, make sure you have correct line endings (i.e. LF ONLY!!!). Otherwise it will mess up the folder names and the script will fail (because of non-existing folders).

By: Si

Si — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:13:18 +0000

Top info here thanks – trying it now on my new ds212j

By: 89mclarenstang

89mclarenstang — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:17:09 +0000

please if anyone can help me this is driving me crazy…i was able to run the bind command after mounting my 2nd nas as a remote mount to a new share i created on the synology. it wouldnt allow me to bind to an ip address so after mounting the 2nd nas to a new local share i was able to run and have the bind command startup at bootup.
so basically if you go to the default photo share on the synology you see all the photo folders from the other nas. the same with the music folder.
but for the life of me i cant get the indexing to work to be able to use photo and audio stations. ive tried synoindex /A and /D, ive tried restarted the services, restarting the box, disabling and re-enabling the stations. nothing works. it even shows in the resource monitor that the commands are working for a few minutes but then nothing happens. i even saw a makethumb type service running and thought it was creating all my photo thumbnails but it eventually stops and when i open photostation it shows that i have no pictures….

please anyone that has any ideas… please : )

By: Teva

Teva — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:22:26 +0000

Hello all
I am using a DS211J with DSM 3.2.
Just like Robert in his original question, I have my photos and videos all stored within the same directory structure, currently under volume1/photo.
This is the way I would like to keep things. Like him, I do not want to have to split my photos and videos and would like both types of files served from the same directory (whether “photo”, “video” or something else like “media”).
It all works well when accessing the data using Photo Station 5 (still photos and videos are thumbnailed and can be viewed).
However, when trying to access them using the iPhone/iPad App DS Photo+, I get “Failed to display unsupported video(s)”. Still photos work well though.
Any idea?
Thank you very much

By: 89mclarenstang

89mclarenstang — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:01:38 +0000

ok i just noticed that under the file station you can actually mount cifs points and use the photo share and the audio share and have it mount at startup automatically which is great! however it doesnt seem to be indexing these mount points to be used with the photo station and audio station…am i doing something wrong or is there a way to get that to work?

By: 89mclarenstang

89mclarenstang — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:43:16 +0000

this is great info and its really appreciated…i have a ds411 that i just purchased and was wondering if i could take this a step further…would it be possible if i had all my photos and music on a completely different nas on my network, to be able to mount that somehow on the ds411 and point the photostation and audiostation to those specific folders that are on the other nas? would i be able to add some lines of code that said to mount the other nas at bootup using the appropriate username and password and then create some sort of symbolic links with that new mount point??? thanks for all the great help!

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:34:20 +0000

Been searching for this for a while Got no wiser untill I read this page. Excellent. Had to add the synoindex command into the rc.local file to get the autoindex, but other than that, no problems whatsoever Thanks.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:07:22 +0000

I used your method to mount both my music and my photo directories, outstanding work tracking this down, thanks!

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:45:17 +0000

Thanks everyone for all the good info! I was trying to get my ext SATA HDD to show up in Media Server and this totally explained it, though my *nix skills were a bit rusty

One question – after I created rc.local and rebooted, the Media Server is stuck in “Indexing Mode” and MAN is it hammering those internal HDDs! Also, now when I use my PS3 or iPhone to hit any of the media shares (video, music, photo), there’s nothing there.

Is this right? How long should it take to do an indexing (I’m running 5 2TB drives for 7.14TB, plus the 2TB ext SATA)?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:42:53 +0000

Wim, I managed to find a solution:

Basically i had to rename /usr/syno/etc/usbno_guid.map ro /usr/syno/etc/usbno_guid.old

Reboot, and the directory was gone.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:30:07 +0000

should say ls/dir

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:28:47 +0000

I can’t really do anything File Browser, all options are greyed out. And when i do ls/dirin a ssh connection to the NAS, i can’t see it as a mount point, nor a directory.

By: Wim

Wim — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:08:54 +0000

Can’t you just remove that directory?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:40:31 +0000

Hey Wim. Thanks for the swift reply, but this doesn’t seem to work for me. I binded my external USB to a folder in /Diskstation/ (well that’s where it appears in File browser), and I’m not sure what argument to use to unbind/unmount it?

So now i have /usbshare1/ mounted somehow, and I don’t really need ot mounted in the file browser (which btw doesnt let me unbind it either)

Thanks,

Steve

By: Wim

Wim — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:11:30 +0000

Hi Steve,

You can unmount with the command umount. In my example it should be umount /volume1/music

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:52:58 +0000

Hi! How do you unmount the directory?

By: Catalin

Catalin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:56:07 +0000

Thanks Manuel,
I tried this and worked. It was driving me crazy, too.For every movie I had to wait 10 minutes, until the indexing finished.

By: Manuel Vidigal

Manuel Vidigal — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:09:31 +0000

Catalin,

I was having the same problem, when I added files via windows directly on the real path (My example \\Diskstation\Synology DiskStation\My Photos) they did no appear in Photo Station.

But if I add files on the mounted path (\\Diskstation\photo) the changes appear immediately on the Photo Station.

Hope this works for you too, because I was driving crazy.

By: Peter Dubrovski

Peter Dubrovski — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:16:52 +0000

One little question: how do i remove this folder? remove rc.local does not remove the folder after rebote; umount /volume1/photo does not remove the folder after reboot. any ideas?

By: Catalin

Catalin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:12:05 +0000

Hi Wim,
My reindexing problem appears not only at reboot, but anytime I add a new file or folder.
It’s a little weird, because the files are somehow accessible for the player (in this case my TV). I had one movie in that location, I reindexed and added afterwards a subtitle file. I played the movie and the subtitle appeared on screen, although it wasn’t visible on the folder.
synoindex, from what I seen, does a manual reindexing.