How To Run Zerotier On Synology DSM7

all right so in today's video i'm going to try something and that is connecting the ds920 which is running dsm-7 to the zero tier network using this set of instructions that were sent to me by a viewer david grishko david saw my original video where i had connected the ds216 plus two to the zero tier network but that was running dsm-6 and it had a third-party utility that i was able to install on that device however that said on dsm 7 it is suggested to run zero tier in a docker container because as posted here by the zero tier network themselves this is their help document it says synology's dsm-7 doesn't allow third-party apps to run as root therefore we now recommend using docker to run zero tier while this is somewhat inconvenient at first it is undeniably a safer way to run third-party applications on your nas once set up this configuration will be persistent across reboots and dsm upgrades so we're going to go ahead and try to follow these directions that david sent over to me and see if we can get the ds920 plus on dsm 7 connected to my zero tier network so stay tuned and let's see how it goes okay so i have the zero tier help doc up on the screen to the left i have my terminal window open here on the right and we're just going to follow these steps as best as we can that said i am not a linux kind of guy i have very limited skills in the command line i probably know enough just to be dangerous but that said we're going to follow these instructions to the best that we can and i hope the point here is that if you just follow copy and paste you'll be able to get zero tier running up on your network as well so let's start it says here we need to ssh into our nas so one of the first things we have to do is come over to the nas and enable ssh because by default it is disabled so we're going to come into the control panel here we're going to come down towards this terminal and snmp we're going to click on enable ssh service port 22 and say apply now we do get a warning here this is modifying system configurations executing external binary files are installing unauthorized third-party applications via the terminal commands may result in unexpected system behavior behavior or even data loss so they're just giving us a warning here we're going to go ahead we have to enable it to in order to follow the zero tier guidelines so let's go ahead and click on ok and now that we've done that let's go ahead and get signed into our nest okay so now that we're signed in the next step is to run the steps here in the help document as root so let me switch to full screen so you can see it better and we're just going to come over here and we're going to copy this command here sudo i come over to the terminal and paste it in and hit return and it's asking for the password because we're requesting root permissions now you can see here it changed the prompt from tony smiraldi at ds920 lab to root at ds920 lab so now we're in as root next step is to write the script to the nas so we're just going to take this command here starting with echo and we're going to copy it and again paste it into the terminal and hit return and that's a good sign if we get the prompt that means the previous command was executed successfully without error next we're going to set the executable permissions on the script so we're going to do the change mod we're going to copy that command come over to the terminal again paste and again it looks like we were successful changing the permissions run script once to create the tunnel so i have tested this i tested this on the ds 216 plus two and i did get an error message let's see what we get here oh so we're good to go here so it did take that command so excellent now we're going to check this for the tunnel so we're going to do the list command here we're going to say copy and the result that we received here in the orange amber color says slash dev slash net slash ton and that's exactly what it's showing we should do here so so far so good the next step says to install docker on the nas we need to go to the package center and install the docker container software so let's click back over to the ds920 let me make this just a little bit bigger so you can see this and we're going to come up to the package center here and we're going to just search for docker and you can see here we have the docker app and we're just going to click on install okay so now that the docker app has been installed let's click on docker and you can see here it is running if we open it just gives us a welcome to docker screen but what we're looking at is this here you can see that the docker is running and if i go to the container tab see we don't have any containers listed here once we finish the zero tier steps we should have a running container listed here so we're going to come back to this and check when we're all done if you're enjoying this type of content please hit that like button it just helps get the video out to more viewers now let's get back to the process next we're going to make a directory to store zero tiers identity and configuration so we're going to use the make directory command and we're just going to copy it and we're going to come over to here paste it in and now we've made the directory successfully for xero tier the next command is actually making the docker container and it's going to make the container named zt for zero tier so again we're simply just going to come over and copy this come over to the terminal and paste and it looks like it created the container successfully now we can i guess go double check in the synology and see if the container is actually running and then come back and finish these steps so let's come over to here let's open docker and let's come over to the container and here you can see now we have the zero tier container and it is up and running so that's excellent that's exactly what we want now it says here previous versions of our package contain a gui however this is no longer the case and it is for the better the cli can be used as follows so we can view the node status let's copy this command here let me do a clear screen so we can just continue up at the top let's paste in the view node status command it's telling us here that the node is online so the next step is to join our zero tier network i'm just going to copy my zero tier id okay so now i'm going to type this next command in manually up until this point here and then i'm going to replace this sample zero tier id with my network id so let's go ahead and type that in manually okay so now we have the command in there let me just double check it that i didn't mistype anything and now we got the confirmation it says join is okay next we're going to authorize the nas on the network so what we're going to do now is we got to jump back to zero tier it should appear in the zero tier network i'm gonna give this a few minutes because when i tested it on the ds216 plus two it did take a few minutes for the nas to appear on the zero tier network okay so it didn't take as long as it did for the ds216 plus two to appear the ds 920 plus appeared pretty quickly i'm in my zero tier network and if i scroll all the way down to the bottom you can see the devices that i already have connected here my imac my ds216 plus two and my macbook pro and here is the latest and you can see it does say it's online now these two devices are offline at the moment but this device is online and it's the only unidentified one and it is the ds 216 plus i'm sorry it is the ds 920 plus so i'm just going to call it ds 920 plus i'm just going to give it a name here and notice here these devices have a solid green line but the ds920 plus has a dotted red line a dashed line that's because it hasn't been authorized yet and that was the next step in the zero tier help document is to come into zero tier and authorize the nas so in order to get it authorized we just have to select it here and that's all there is to it it should eventually register so what we're going to do now is we're going to come back here and the next step after we've authorized the nas on the network let me switch back to full screen so you can see this is to just view the network status so we're going to copy this command here into the terminal window and hopefully if all goes well we should see a status here so it is showing the nas and it is showing it here with a 192.168.196.88 address so that being said we should be able to now connect to the nas i'm going to skip the last two optional steps so let me switch back and let's make this full screen here for you guys and i'm just going to go in and i'm going to copy the address here 192.168.196.88 and we should be able to sign into the synology now using the zero tier address so i'm normally on a 192.168.50 network here at the studio you can see i'm using 192.168.196 which is the ip address designed by the zero tier network so if we click on ok to proceed there's the ds 920 plus and if i sign in you can see now that i am successfully signed into the ds 920 through the zero tier network so there you go is a series of multiple steps to get the synology connected to the zero tier network and i just wanted to show that if i can do it i'm not a linux guy i'm not a command line guy like i said earlier i know a little bit just enough to be dangerous but the point is if you can follow instructions and copy and paste you should be able to get your synology nas connected to a zero to your network so i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please go ahead and smash that like button be sure to check out a few other videos that i have listed up above remember to subscribe like and share the video and i want to thank you for using the amazon affiliate links i know they don't change your price but they do help out the channel my name is tony with quick tech solutions as always please stay safe thank you for watching and supporting the channel 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Length: 13min 24sec (804 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 04 2021