Zyxel NAS326

Resources

Reset button

  • Default password and IP adddres - press and wait until 1 beep
  • Factory reset - press and wait until 2 beep, then keep pressed at least 5 seconds

Basic setup

  • admin password (default login is admin and password 1234)
  • enable SSH
    • copy pub key
  • enable HTTPS
  • set NTP and TZ
  • Control Panel –> Maintenance –> Power
    • Enable Wake On LAN
    • Always Power On
  • disable services
    • Control Panel –> Service –>
      • Media Server
      • WebDAV

iSCSI

First disable IPv6 and restart NAS, or manually remove IPv6 iSCSI portals using targetcli commandline.

ZyXEL NAS326 2-Bay Personal Cloud Storage Reviewed

  • Storage Manager –> iSCSI
    • iSCSI LUNs –> Create
      • Name: PVE1-ISOs
      • Location, Capacity 100GB, Thin provisioning
    • iSCSI Targets –> Create
      • Name: NAS326-iSCSI-PVE1-ISOs-target
      • Allowed initiator IQN: pve1 , password…

Instal Metarepository

New mirror for nas-central.org

  • Download web_prefix
  • Put web_prefix file to ftp://admin@192.168.0.168/admin/zy-pkgs (create zy-pkgs subdir)
  • App Center → Browse → All Apps → Refresh Icon(Retreive List From Internet)
    • Only the MetaRepository package should show up.
    • Install it
    • re-request the list
    • You should see the official Taiwanese repository, merged with new one (ffp, btsync, anyterm, MetaRepository, Tweaks, Dropbear, MidnightCommander). If you still see only MetaRepository, disable it, enable it again, and retry.
  • Install
    • Midnight Commander
    • Tweaks
    • entware-ng
    • ffp (see notes below)

* restart the NAS

Instal FFP

Consider usign only Entware-ng:

FFP is aging. The base system is unmaintained, and it dates from 2012. 3th party developers are doing a lot 
of work to update parts of it, but for beginners it's hard to gather the newest packages together, partly due to a missing package management.

FFP 3rd party packages

Add more package sites using uwsiteloader.sh

wget http://wolf-u.li/u/441 -O /ffp/bin/uwsiteloader.sh
chmod a+x /ffp/bin/uwsiteloader.sh

Modify uwsiteloader.sh and add –no-check-certificates to wget invocation.

uwsiteloader.sh
slacker -U
slacker -a

Install:

  • uli:screen
  • uli:sudo
  • uli:openvpn uli:lzo don't install, kernel 3.10. modules are missing in FFP uli repo

using entware-ng & FFP

By default PATH is set by FFP, so to execute entware-ng use full path: /opt/bin/opkg or update PATH by sourcing . /opt/etc/profile.

Entware-ng

It resides in /opt

syslog-ng

opkg install syslog-ng

Problem: Zyxell is already using syslog-ng and /opt/var/log/Entware-ng.log shows: Starting syslog-ng… . already running.

Boot process: http://zyxel.nas-central.org/wiki/Boot_process_(300_series)

...
/usr/sbin/zylog_no_logging syslog 1 
...
if [ -e /etc/zyxel/syslog-ng/enable_syslog.flag ]; then                                                                                                                                                            
        /usr/bin/python /usr/local/apache/web_framework/models/syslogng_main_model.pyc                                                                                                                             
fi  

I don't know where it is started. Simple solution is to add /opt/bin/killall /usr/sbin/syslog-ng into

#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 
ENABLED=yes                                                                                                                                                                                                        
PROCS=syslog-ng                                                                                                                                                                                                    
ARGS=""                                                                                                                                                                                                            
PREARGS=""                                                                                                                                                                                                         
DESC=$PROCS                                                                                                                                                                                                        
PATH=/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin                                                                                                                  
 
/opt/bin/killall /usr/sbin/syslog-ng                                                                                                                                                                                   
 
. /opt/etc/init.d/rc.func              

NOTE: opkg install psmisc

OpenVPN

Use OpenVPN package from Entware-NG, because this repo contains necessary kernel 3.10.39 module tun

Add src/gz Mijzelf http://downloads.zyxel.nas-central.org/Users/Mijzelf/Entware-ng/binaries/armv7 into /opt/etc/opkg.conf

opkg update
opkg install net-tools-ifconfig profile-hook zyxel-modules-3.10.39 kmod openvpn-openssl

Edit /opt/etc/init.d/S20openvpn and:

  • enable tun module loading: insmod /opt/lib/modules/3.10.39/kernel/drivers/net/tun.ko
  • update config file namei

Test openvpn openvpn –config /opt/etc/openvpn/myconfig.conf

Issues

wget: invalid option – 'N'

Problem is in PATH. FFP installs full wget into /ffp/bin and changes default user PATH variable, but system still use one from /usr/sbin/wget Restart the router, login as admin, switch to root using su and then try to use wget.