I just bought a Synology DS413j in order to replace a handful of external USB drives with a single box that I can access without plugging anything into my Mac. I was a little disappointed to realize that, when connecting to my NAS via the default AFP, I got a drive that didn’t support Trash and didn’t seem to support Unix permissions. (It was also dog slow, even with the NAS and my computer plugged into my router, although that may be a separate issue.)
Ideally, I’d like to be able to treat the Synology as a normal HFS+ volume that happens to consist of multiple physical drives and which happens to be accessible over the network. (I realize that HFS+ is terrible in a lot of ways, but at least it supports the Mac “niceties” like permission metadata.) Is anything like this possible? Will connecting via SMB or NFS fix these problems?
Best Answer
Your NAS already connects via SMB according to the user manual. The underlying file system is ext4, though this shouldn't really matter to you. It may be possible to enable Trash, according to this question from another stackexchange site. It indicates connecting via SMB instead of AFP, using the control panel app.