Wake on LAN (WOL) allows you to power on a computer over an ethernet connection. This method works for most computers from another computer or smartphone.Twi.
This article shows how to deploy Nano on a Synology DiskStation for editing in the Synology Shell via SSH. For users who are not empowered by the VIM Editor, there is a remedy by installing the often preferred editor Nano, since Nano is easier to use than VIM. Fortunately, you can easily add additional software repositories to the Synology NAS to install Nano and many other tools.
The following applications are provided via our 3rd Party Repository to facilitate the installation and usage of them. These applications cannot. Fortunately, you can easily add additional software repositories to the Synology NAS to install Nano and many other tools. Nano is not provided or managed by Synology itself, but can be get from the SynoCommunity repository. The SynoCommunity offers free packages for Synology NAS devices. How to add the SynoCommunity repository.
Nano is not provided or managed by Synology itself, but can be get from the SynoCommunity repository. The SynoCommunity offers free packages for Synology NAS devices.
How to add the SynoCommunity repository
From DSM you open the main menu with the icon at the top left, there you will find the Package Center.
By clicking on the icon Package Center to open this, then click the Settings button.
In the now open General under Trust Level, enable the Synology Inc. and trusted publishers option.
Then go to the Package Sources section.
Click the Add button and add the package source, enter SynoCommunity as the name, and insert the URL https://packages.synocommunity.com/ at location and click OK.
Packages can now be installed. The SynoCli File Tools package provides the following command-line utilities: less, tree, ncdu, jdupes, rhash, mc (midnight-commander), nano, file, detox, rmlint, rnm, pcre2, zstd. Nano used to be a separate package, but is now only available through the SynoCli File Tools package.
Now you can connect to diskstation with use a terminal like PuTTY and editing in the shell using nano, for example the SSH server configuration file.