Tips & tricks

For an unknown reason, my tp-link Wifi extender has suddenly stopped working. In fact, it didn't find anymore the DHCP server, even connected to the root Wireless network. In the network interface of a device connected to the AP I saw the following parameters obviously set by the AP as this was not in my home network range: DHCP server : 192.168.0.254 DNS server : 192.168.0.254 Gateway : 192.168.0.254 So I've simply entered this ip address in a browser from a client device of the AP, using admin/admin as user and password and set a static ip address to the AP (in Network > LAN) and disabled the embedded DHCP server (in Network > DHCP settings).

There is probably lot of reasons for a network backup to fail, but I would like to expose here my case. I got the following message each time I've tried to backup my files using synology network backup system : Network Backup failed to backup task [shared folders and local config] to [mydestinationserver]. ([23] Some files could not be transferred. Possible reasons: 1) backup user has no permission to access the files, 2) files are deleted, 3) illegal file name, 4) too many folders.)  If I look the network backup log, I see this warning : Network Backup failed to backup shared folder [/homes] to [mydestinationserver]. After several tests, I've discovered that the cause was the path lenght of certain folders and files in my 'homes' folder. The path was exceeding 256 characters. I've simply deleted those folders and finally my network backup ran smoothly. #1