FOG: 1.5.4 -> How to setup NAS - Synology DiskStation as Master Node

[Alex78]

Follow this tutorial step by step, and you will have everything configured, I spent a lot of hours to understand where my mistakes were and I make this tutorial to help the maximum number of people.

To begin, let’s configure the NAS - Synology DiskStation:

First, go to --> Control Panel --> File services --> SMB/AFP/NFS, scroll down:

-Check “Activer NFS” = “Enable NFS”.
-Check “Activer la prise en charge de NFSv4.1” = “Enable support for NFSv4.1”.

Go to --> Control Panel --> File services --> FTP:

-Check “Activer le service FTP (pas de chiffrage)” = “Enable FTP service (no encryption)”.
-Check “Utiliser la plage de ports par défaut (55536-55567)” = “Use the default port range (55536-55567)”

Go to Control Panel --> User --> Select the advanced window:

-Check “Activer le service d’accueil de l’utilisateur” = “Enable the user’s home service”.

-Let’s create the folders to share.
-Go to Control Panel --> shared folders --> create and follow the pictures below:

-Click “Suivant” = “Next”.
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-Click “Suivant” = “Next”.

-Click “Suivant” = “Next”.

-Click “Appliquer” = “Apply”.

-Click “Ok”.

Create two more shared folders with the name “tftpboot” and “snapins”, with the same configuration as the shared folder that we create together “images”

Go to --> Control Panel --> File services – TFTP:

-Check “Activer le service TFTP” = “Enable TFTP Service”.
-Dossier racine TFTP = “TFTP root folder” : tftpboot (choose the tftpboot folder you created).

After doing that, you have to create a user.
-Go to Control Panel --> User --> Create and follow the pictures below:


-Here the username = userFOG and password = FOGuser.
-Check --> “Ne pas autoriser l’utilisateur à changer le mot de passe du compte” = “Do not allow the user to change the password of the account”.
-Click “Next”.

-Check only --> users.
-Click “Next”.

-Folder “images” --> Reading/writing.
-Folder “snapins” --> Reading/writing.
-Folder “tftpboot” --> Reading/writing.
-Click “Next”.

-Click “Next”.

-Click “Next”.

-Click “Next”.

-Click “Apply”.

Go to Control Panel --> Shared folders --> select the folder “images” you created before --> Right click on folder --> edit --> NFS permissions --> “Créer” = “Create”:


-Privilege: R/W
-Squash: no mapping
-Security: sys
-Check “Activer le mode asynchrone” = “Enable asynchronous mode”.
-Check “Permettre à des utilisateurs d’accéder aux sous-dossiers montés” = “Allow users to access mounted subfolders”.
-Click “Ok”.
DO THE SAME THINGS ON THE OTHER TWO FOLDERS: “tftpboot” and “snapins”.

DO NOT ACTIVATE THIS IN FOLDERS:

NAS is now configured.

Let’s move on the FOG server. (I host the server fog on ubuntu):

CREATE THE SAME USER THAT WE CREATED ON THE NAS ON THE FOG SERVER

Connect to your FOG server and open the terminal and enter these lines:

sudo -s
mount -t nfs "Your_NAS_IP":/volume1/images /mnt
mkdir /mnt/dev
touch /mnt/.mntcheck
umount /mnt

mount -t nfs <syno_nas_ip>:/volume1/images/dev /mnt
touch /mnt/.mntcheck
umount /mnt

mount -t nfs <syno_nas_ip>:/volume1/snapins /mnt
mkdir /mnt/ssl
cp -R /opt/fog/ssl/* /mnt/ssl
umount /mnt

mount -t nfs <syno_nas_ip>:/volume1/tftpboot /mnt
cp -R /tftpboot/* /mnt
umount /mnt

When you have done that, you have nothing to do on the FOG server.

Go to the FOG Management GUI, select Storage --> Add storage Node:


-Management Username it’s the user we created before on NAS.
-Management Password it’s the same password of the user we created on the NAS.
-Check master node.
-Storage Group: default.
-Click on ADD.

Go to Storage --> All storage nodes --> Click on DefaultMember:


-Uncheck “Master Node”.
-Click “Update”.

Now create a new image and try to capture a image:

Go to hosts --> List all hosts --> Click on your host:


-Click “Update”.
And now capture the image:

YOU CAN DEPLOY IMAGE TOO

There is already a very good tutorial on this subject, but I wanted to enhance it with images that it is more understandable.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9430/synology-nas-as-fog-storage-node?page=1

[Tom Elliott]

Are you sure capture will work when you mount the NAS nfs to the fog server? Typically you cannot share and nfs share in read and right. What I mean by this: if the folder is read only you can share it without much issue regardless of how many times it’s shared, but for read write, it must be mounted exactly once. At least anything I’ve ever seen.

[Alex78]

@tom-elliott Yes it will work, look at the capture that I made directly on the NAS without going through the storage of the FOG server:

while capturing the image is stocked on /volume1/images/dev folder:

and when he is captured 100%, it will appear on the folder /volume1/images directly:

I’m capturing one right now:

[Quazz]

@tom-elliott That sounds a bit weird to me? Surely a server should allow multiple rw clients simultaneously? (even for the same share)

[Tom Elliott]

@quazz what I mean is a shared share being shared.

For example, if you have a share at 192.168.10.1 mounted to server 192.168.10.5, sharing rw from 192.168.10.5 would fail as the locks have already been dedicated to 192.168.10.5. If all mounts are to the central point you would be fine.

[Quazz]

@tom-elliott Fair enough, but he doesn’t appear to be exporting the mounted share.

I don’t know why exactly he’s mounting it on his FOG server, it doesn’t seem important to making this process work.

[Alex78]

@tom-elliott Quite right, but then we can put the 3 folders in one and the same shared folder. For the tutorial I did like that but we could also make a central shared folder for example name “FOG” with the 3 folders in, “images”, “snapins” and “tftpboot” except that the path would be /volume1/FOG/images, /volume1/FOG/snapins…

[jeremyvdv]

Hello

I followed your tutorial and thank you for doing this.

I have my storage which is well added but when I want to capture I have access denied …

mount 10.1.5.8:/volume1/images on / images permission denied

If I try to connect to the share on the nas with my FOG user it works.

Can you help me ?

Thank you

[george1421]

@jeremyvdv said in FOG: 1.5.4 -> How to setup NAS - Synology DiskStation as Master Node:

mount 10.1.5.8:/volume1/images on / images permission denied

Where are you seeing this message?

If I try to connect to the share on the nas with my FOG user it works.

From what device does it work? FOG server?

The target computer connects to the NFS share using the credentials of root if the nfs share has squash root parameter. root will not be able to connect to the nfs share, yet a normal user can mount it. If you pxe boot the target computer in debug mode (tick the debug checkbox before scheduling the task) you can run the commands interactively on the target computer for testing.

[jeremyvdv]

if I start in debug mode. what action do I have to do manually?

Thank you

[george1421]

@jeremyvdv said in FOG: 1.5.4 -> How to setup NAS - Synology DiskStation as Master Node:

if I start in debug mode. what action do I have to do manually?

At the FOS Linux command prompt you would key in
mount -o nolock,proto=tcp,rsize=32768,intr,noatime "$storage" /images where $storage would be the nas server IP address and the file path. For example 10.1.5.8:/volume1/imageswould go there. Don't forget the colon after the IP address and before the path. Also make sure that10.1.5.8` is the IP address of your NAS. If that mounts correctly then the problem is elsewhere.

[jeremyvdv]

Hello
I corrected: my problem by indicating the network of my clients rather than the server on the NFS configuration of synology.

now i’m experiencing this problem at capture:

[jeremyvdv]

for information, I have this message at the end of my capture … it happens to create the files on my NAS … but on the end I have this message

[jeremyvdv]

If I have to change the password in fogftp.class.php
Thank you for telling me which line exactly because I can not find

[george1421]

@jeremyvdv said in FOG: 1.5.4 -> How to setup NAS - Synology DiskStation as Master Node:

If I have to change the password in fogftp.class.php

You do not edit the code in this case. On your NAS you need to setup the FTP service so that the FOS Linux engine can connect to it. You will need to create a user ID and password on your NAS device. Then on the FOG serve web gui, for the storage definition of the NAS, under the management user and password.

You should test using the ftp client on a windows computer to ensure you can connect to the nas using the managment user ID and PASSWORD and navigate to the /volume1/images2 path and to create and delete a directory in that path. If you can then you have the permissions set correctly on the images2 directory.

I do have a tutorial that I created for the synology nas too: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9430/synology-nas-as-fog-storage-node

[jeremyvdv]

Hello

and thank you for your help.
I advanced on the subject by chnging the login in fogsetting.php
but now I have the message: maximum number of tries exceeded ftp.

On the nas I have no restriction.

[jeremyvdv]

here is where I am.
Not easy to set up this storage

[Sebastian Roth]

@jeremyvdv Probably the account is locked for too many login attempts using the wrong credentials? Can you manually connect to that via a FTP client like FileZilla (host: 10.1.5.8 …)?

[jeremyvdv]

yes i tried and since winscp i have no problem

[jeremyvdv]

I see on the error that it uses the root account.
out of synology i can not create a root account.
that may be the problem.
But what if that’s it?

Thank you