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Sinology DS211j ZeroTier configuration
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Taken from zerotier forum here

  1. You have to access your Synology NAS with ssh. To enable SSH go to: Control Panel -> Terminal & SNTP.

  2. First you have to install Entware-ng. It is a packet manager for devices like Synology NAS and many others.

    Here is the instruction for Synology NAS. So just follow it. https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki/Install-on-Synology-NAS

  3. Then install ZeroTier using Entware:

    opkg install zerotier

  4. Create the script to run zerotier: https://gist.github.com/meoso/b25bd410c8a54a1a013f0cc2d72b12ee

    vim /opt/etc/init.d/S90zerotier-one
#... 
chmod 755 /opt/etc/init.d/S90zerotier-one

    tun kernel module have to be there so zerotier could join the network

    vi /etc/modules.conf

    add tun in the end

    To insert tunko manually (to test zerotier) sudo insmod /lib/modules/tun.ko

  5. So we can now test the network:

    zerotier-cli join <network>

  6. Setup cron. Synology cron is a bit different from linux. Here is a good article. The quote from it:

By default, crontab is only editable by root (/etc/crontab) and this needs to be done through a text editor rather than the usual crontab command. But there are a few other limitations that one can read here and there:

  • the who field can only be filled with root, otherwise the entry is removed after a reboot
  • the different fields need to be separated by a tab (no spaces), otherwise the entry is removed after a reboot
vim /etc/crontab

So put the next line. And replace spaces with tabs

*/5 * * * * root  /opt/etc/init.d/S90zerotier-one start
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Thanks for the write-up, Dmitry.

We've since tried to make it a bit easier to install ZeroTier on Synology devices so I figured I'd drop a link in here to our official packages.

https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierNAS

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meoso commented Jul 19, 2018 •
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thanks for the mention! im useful after-all. i came across this searching how to do it again for 1.2.x

I'd also like to link to issue 12 for future reference zerotier/ZeroTierNAS#12

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