No prob!

If you only need to mount shares from the Synology box on the Ubuntu box, consider using NFS…that’s a slide button and text box or two on Synology side and a /etc/fstab edit on the Ubuntu side. If you also need to share from the Synology to the Win11 tower, samba/smb may be easier out of the box, but you could simplify by adding NFS tools, which are buried in some windows feature add-on somewhere in the OS. Ive added this feature to mount shares but never to host them.

Hosting NFS from a non-Synology machine will be hard to explain here but a search for “setup NFS server” should get you on the right path. It may just be easier to share from the win machine using samba/smb, but I don’t know how to set that up as ive never gone that way.

For an available-on-login setup in Linux, you most likely want to edit /etc/fstab on the client, with hostname below referring to the server…the entry should look something like this:

Hostname.domainname:/server/mount/point /client/mount/point nfs defaults 0 0

Hopefully some of this helps. It’s late.

EDIT: it was late. I forgot the client-side mount point in the fstab entry!

At best it will only get worse. Ask me how I know.

When I upgraded my desktop last January with all new everything I thought I was just getting ahead of tariffs…I did not foresee that memory and ssds and hdds and silicon would all explode in price. Glad I pulled the trigger when I did!

If the router reconnects to the internet when it factory resets and it still works as a gateway, there may still be hope. You’d need some SSH host on another machine behind the router; you’d probably also need some sort of minimal VPS. You could setup a reverse SSH tunnel on the SSH host that would tunnel through the router to the VPS, then you’d be able to connect through the VPS into your network.

Honestly tho, this is a lot of work and if time is tight you might just wanna roll to a store and buy whatever cheap router you can find to limp along til you get back.

So you haven’t used it yourself and are shitting on an OS based on anecdotal evidence? "Stop making stupid assumptions”, I once heard someone say.

I use GrapheneOS and have helped other less tech-savvy people install and use it. You can just roll with the defaults and have a better privacy stance than the spyware Google puts out, or you can take a deep dive. It works just fine either way.

Compared to a pinetime, for example, it’s a “dumb” watch. I has a step counter and an eink screen, but thats about it. The pinetime has alarms, notifications, call answering media controls, etc. So I guess it has potential, but it falls short of what I would think most people would consider “smart”.

Watchy, while a cool product, is an eink watch with no smart features.

Do yrself the favor and cut the cord.

Did you follow a specific guide or refer to specific documentation for the reverse proxy? I’ve tried (admittedly not super hard) multiple times to set one up with nginx with no luck.

I’m not sure as that’s not a feature I used at all. I normally scale recipes in my brain, for better or worse hahah.

I dig the simplicity of Cooklang