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Mike Hansford
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Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:51 am    Post subject: hacking Synology DS-101 Reply with quote
Has anyone managed to successfully hack the Synology DS-101 Disk Station (a
barebones NAS) to obtain root console access?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
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kony
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Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:48 am    Post subject: Re: hacking Synology DS-101 Reply with quote
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:51:29 +1100, Mike Hansford
<hanmjau@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

Quote:
Has anyone managed to successfully hack the Synology DS-101 Disk Station (a
barebones NAS) to obtain root console access?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mike

Don't have one, looked on their website and saw a download
for the firmware,
http://www.synology.com/support1/dspat/synology_ixp420_1hd.pat
suggest you rename it to *.tgz, start decompressing
everything and looking about in the files. That's about all
the help I have.
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Michael C
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Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:50 am    Post subject: Re: hacking Synology DS-101 Reply with quote
google
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Mike Hansford
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:00 am    Post subject: Re: hacking Synology DS-101 Reply with quote
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:50:49 +1100, Michael C wrote:

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google

I wouldn't be asking if I hadn't already... Might hae been some stuff but
it was all in German. Not much good ya know.
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Mike Hansford
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:01 am    Post subject: Re: hacking Synology DS-101 Reply with quote
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:48:33 GMT, kony wrote:

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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:51:29 +1100, Mike Hansford
hanmjau@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

Has anyone managed to successfully hack the Synology DS-101 Disk Station (a
barebones NAS) to obtain root console access?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mike

Don't have one, looked on their website and saw a download
for the firmware,
http://www.synology.com/support1/dspat/synology_ixp420_1hd.pat
suggest you rename it to *.tgz, start decompressing
everything and looking about in the files. That's about all
the help I have.

Sounds fair. Will give it a go. The item obviously isn't that popular.
Cheers
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Michael C
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:59 am    Post subject: Re: hacking Synology DS-101 Reply with quote
"Mike Hansford" <hanmjau@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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I wouldn't be asking if I hadn't already... Might hae been some stuff but
it was all in German. Not much good ya know.

Google language tools.
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pmilligan



Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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Location: London, England
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:16 am    Post subject: DS-101 hacking Reply with quote
This device definitely looks as if it will hack. The firmware contains a ramdisk image which is used to prep the hard drive. This has telnet disabled and the root password is complex. However one could either add an account in the ramdisk before intialisation, or mount the drive on a Linux PC after initialisation and edit the files.

The firware load image has checksums included. This might make it difficult to modify the ramdisk, if they are checked as part of lhe load sequence.

However this device looks VERY promising.
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svdbergh



Joined: 30 May 2005
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 8:13 pm    Post subject: DS-101 firmware Reply with quote
Hi all,

I've been looking for other references to obtaining root access and modifying the firmware of this NAS product. This thread seems to be the only one talking about this...

Now Synology has posted the source of their firmware in agreement with the GPL licence on their website. I downloaded the massive archive, but since I'm not much of a Linux wizz, I can't really make heads or tails of it. I am interested to learn though.

Could someone tell me where to look for info or a tutorial to help me understand how to start using/modifying this source code ? I've tried searching with Google, but I can't find a good reference...

Furthermore, Synology's new DS-101g+ seems very related to the DS-101 standard version and has a webserver built in... I wonder if the DS-101 can be pursuaded to accept the firmware of the newer model...

Thanks in advance for any info !

Sven
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eriktar



Joined: 01 Jun 2005
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:14 am    Post subject: re:hacking Synology DS-101 Reply with quote
I'm also very interested in a custom firmware for my ds 101. So if anybody has any information what so ever, pleas post on this forum.
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kcg



Joined: 02 Aug 2005
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:30 pm    Post subject: Re: DS-101 firmware Reply with quote
svdbergh wrote:

[...]
Furthermore, Synology's new DS-101g+ seems very related to the DS-101 standard version and has a webserver built in... I wonder if the DS-101 can be pursuaded to accept the firmware of the newer model...
[...]


Not at all! DS-101 is Intel ixp420 based, while DS-101g+ is Freescale MPC8241 based, i.e. the first is ARM and the second PowerPC.
Interesting is that firmware for download available for DS-101 already does have some bits related to PowerPC. For example you see there loading of proprietary Intel ethernet driver in case of Arm and loading of Marvel Yukon driver in case of PPC.
Also DS-101 seems to use RedBoot, so I would really expect this to be very similar to reference intel ixdp42x design. BTW: I have very similar toy here in excelent and _cheap_ Linksys NSLU2. I would expect to be very similar, except software...

I'm also looking forward to seeing more information about 101g+, since I'd like to get some "evaluation board" for PowerPC here, and using some NAS and a bit hack it seems to be the most cheap solution -- I've already did the same for Arm/XScale and bought NSLU2.

Cheers,
Karel
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kcg



Joined: 02 Aug 2005
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:41 pm    Post subject: Re: DS-101 firmware Reply with quote
[quote="kcg"]
svdbergh wrote:

[...]
Also DS-101 seems to use RedBoot, so I would really expect this to be very similar to reference intel ixdp42x design. BTW: I have very similar toy here in excelent and _cheap_ Linksys NSLU2. I would expect to be very similar, except software...
[...]


BTW: Can anybody here try to telnet to DS-101 RedBoot? I'm curious if this is possible to use this trick:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/TelnetIntoRedBoot

Thanks,
Karel
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repvik



Joined: 19 Aug 2005
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:00 am    Post subject: Info Reply with quote
I've gotten a bit of info from the DS-101. Look at http://opensyn.kynisk.com/

I am currently looking into streamlining creating a firmware. There are two alternatives, one that retains the original firmware and adds extra functionality, and one that is a "clean" implementation of the firmware (without webinterface and stuff). The second is much easier Wink
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kcg



Joined: 02 Aug 2005
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:17 am    Post subject: Re: Info Reply with quote
Also more info comming here:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DS101/HomePage

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Karel
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repvik



Joined: 19 Aug 2005
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Info Reply with quote
Ok, I've gotten MySQL to run too Wink

I'll be setting up a firmware mod that does everything needed to install stuff tomorrow. It looks like the easiest way will be to enable telnet, upload a tarball to public, log in and unpack, run a script.
After that, you should be able to just "ipkg install mysql" to get mysql set up.
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repvik



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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:24 pm    Post subject: Bootstrap released :) Reply with quote
Ok, the initial bootstrap script has been released. Please check http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ds101-linux/message/13
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