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N5200 Tweaks
From Thecus Wiki
This page contains more detailed information about the internals of the Thecus N5200 operating system and how everything is glued together. This is also the place to describe actual bugs and how to get a workaround until they are fixed by Thecus.
Links to detailed articles
- N5200 ACL and Shares: Overview on access control list settings for shares
- How to gain root access to an Allnet ALL6600 /Thecus n5200: This page describes an alternative way for gaining root access on the N5200 device. This method is quite complex and not really needed anymore as appropriate packages enabling root access are available (e.g. the SSH package).
- N5200 Debian Chroot Environment: How to install a Debian chroot environment on Thecus N5200
- N5200 HowTo Copy SSD: How to copy the SSD/DOM
Bug Reports
A list of open tickets with Thecus support is available here: N5200 Firmware 2.00.12 Issues
- N5200 BUG: BusyBox 1.1.0: Description of the BusyBox 1.1.0 bug
- N5200 BUG: E-Mail Notification: Description of the E-Mail notification bug
- N5200 BUG: USB Disk Handling: Description of the USB disk handling bug
- N5200 BUG: ADS/NT Authentication: Description of the Active Directory Service bug
Direct hints
- Nameserver setting
Despite the fact, that you are only able to set the nameservers in the WAN configuration page, this setting applies to all interface and therefore to the LAN configuration too.
- Enable PRO features in a non-PRO box
With FW release 2.00.04 it is possible to permanently enable features normally availably to the PRO version of the N5200 only. To do so, run the following shell command: echo "1" > /app/CPUFLAG
Note: during a FW upgrade this file will be removed (!!) and the system may behave strange afterwards. So, use this for testing purposes only.
- Cronjobs
To enter permanetly crontabs You have to edit the file "/app/cfg/crond.conf" instead of "var/spool/cron/crontabs/root" and then execute "crontab /app/cfg/crond.conf -u root" to update crontab
- Enable Syslog
- login to Your N5200 via Webinterface
- then write following Url: "http://<Your N5200 IP>/adm/getform.htl?name=syslog" or https if You are using it
- enable then syslog via the webpage displayed (You even can specify a remote syslog server, but local is fine too)
- Your syslog is now in the nsync folder nsync/log/messages