Drive Sync Server – installation

How to set up a Synology NAS to act as a remote Drive Sync

This is only a brief summary as Megganet usually set this up.

Check the Synology NAS firmware and applications are up to date. -Ensure ‘Synology Drive’ is installed on the NAS.

Go to ‘Control Panel‘ and ‘Update & Restore‘ and follow the prompts to fully update the Synology NAS.

Create a folder to be shared remotely. ‘Control Panel‘, ‘Shared Folder‘ —

Create the remote users username. ‘Control Panel‘. ‘Users & Group‘ — When created, select ‘Permissions’ and select the folder the remote user has access to.

At this point – select the other (local and remote) users who have access to the new shared folder.

At this point you can create a shortcut to the folder on your desktop or map a drive letter to it if you wish.

Select ‘Synology Drive Admin Console‘ from the menu on the icon at at the top of the screen. If this is not available then you need to install ‘Synology Drive Sync‘.

Select the Teams folder that has just been created and ‘Enable it’. If the folder is disabled, it will not appear on the remote computer.

Send the NAS DDNS or IP details along with the username by email to the new user and send the password by TXT or WhatsApp.

Ports do not need to be forwarded on your router.

Remote users should now be able to connect.

That’s it!