Synology Case Study on Camden Market

Synology Case Study on Camden Market

When we were looking to replace the various old CCTV systems which covered the Camden markets, I wanted something which was going to be flexible as things can change very quickly in Camden Market. After considering various options and looking at the (often very high) pricing, I decided on using Synology. A big part of that was their Centralized Management System (CMS) which allows us to install a server in each building to record locally, but watch all the feeds centrally in the CCTV control r…

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Synology AD Domain users unable to logon to SMB shares

Synology AD Domain users unable to logon to SMB shares

I rebooted a domain controller tonight, after which no domain users could logon to the Synology Rackstation. It seemed to have got itself into a state, unable to resync the domain data, etc. so I removed it from the domain, rebooted it and then rejoined it to the domain, which seemed to work fine. After rejoining the domain user credentials were still not accepted via SMB, however I could logon to the web admin site. My experience of Active Directory tells me to check 2 things first. DNS and Tim…

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