I recently decided to replace my outdated Synology DS 1010+ NAS (in service 24×7 for over 8 years without major issues) with a new DS 1618+ NAS. Of course the new NAS is a lot faster, has an additional drive bay but to me most important was to replace the hardware and benefit from the newer version of DSM (Synology’s NAS software platform). However, this post is not about my new NAS (there are sufficient other sites describing / testing / comparing these devices).
Of course, now that I am integrating everything with FreeIPA (replacing my MacOS OpenDirectory setup) I also needed the Synology NAS to be fully integrated with FreeIPA. Jack Henschel’s excellent post that gave me some clue’s but wasn’t quite clear in how things worked and what was really needed. The article itself was clear in the steps to take but not everything worked for me immediately so I had to find out why and how to fix that and document that in this post.
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