My Synology Disk Station 207 has been giving me trouble with connecting to my Linux based Samba network ever since I upgraded the firmware to DSM 2.2-0942.<\/p>\n
Having tried everything I could to make it work and read hundreds of google’d sites and forums I decided yesterday to reinstall the firmware upgrade just to prove if it was an issue with the install.<\/p>\n
But, Synology will only allow an upgrade of the firmware. I wanted to reinstall but DSM 2.2-0942 is the same as DSM 2.2-0942 and the process was rejected.<\/p>\n
In order to make it work I accessed the server via SSH and edited the \/etc.defaults\/VERSION file and changed the minor version number from 0942 to 0941 and saved the file.<\/p>\n
My next attempt reported the version as 0941 and the 0942 was accepted as an upgrade.<\/p>\n
So I would expect that making this type of change will permit downgrading of firmware as well. I note now that this is documented in the Synology forums but there is mention of needing to edit \/etc\/VERSION as well as the \/etc.default\/VERSION but this was not my experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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