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CakePHP ACL and other challenges
If you have implemented ACL in CakePHP and then you add an action to your controller or create a new controller and actions you will get locked out when you try to access it (unless you have granted access further up the tree) Firstly perform aco_sync using the...
NetGear AirCard 785S aka Telstra 4G My Pocket Wi-Fi Ultimate stuck at Detecting Service!
Update: 23 Dec 2015 - Just logged into the web admin page and there was an update available. Clicked to download and install the update and now the issue mentioned below are fixed. Note: This is one of those annoying "I have a problem without a solution" posts. No fix...
Plex Media Server on Synology Main Menu Shortcut Pointing to Wrong IP work-a-round
I had an issue where clicking on the plex shortcut would take me to an old IP address. The cause was that I had configured the LAN1 connection with 10.0.0.68 (eth0) and then moved home and plugged the DS415+ in using the LAN2 (eth1) interface. The Plex cgi that...
Accessing Plex Media Server on Synology when you don’t have Internet
Just trying to get access to my Plex Media Server running on a Synology DS415+ while not having internet. Finding that I get a can't connect because of firewall etc error. You might see this: A work around you can do from Windows / Mac / Linux. Make sure you have SSH...
Synology Slow Local USB Transfer Speeds
I have a 3TB Western Digital USB Drive (details below) it was almost full. If you are planning to quickly transfer data off a USB Drive to your Synology you had better budget upwards of 4 days to make the transfer. The transfer speeds are so slow.... I searched the...
Accessing a Windows .local domain from a mac
8 or 9 years ago I naively installed my SBS2003 (at the time) domain as nbname.local and now I'm using a Macbook I'm finding that the .local suffix is used for an entirely different purpose. The answer as suggested on the Apple forums...