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Remove current installation:

sudo apt remove update-notifier update-notifier-common

Install new:

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y update-notifier-common

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Change SSH Port Number

To help prevent/slow any brute force attacks while still having SSH enabled, its a good idea to change your SSH port from the default 22 to something at least 5 digits.

Install “netstat”:

sudo apt install net-tools

Check to see current SSH port:

sudo netstat -tulnp | grep ssh

Check to see current sshd_config configuration:

grep -i port /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Open the sshd_config and search for: “#Port 22”

sudoedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Uncomment and change the port number to your preference

Save sshd_config and restart SSH service:

sudo systemctl restart sshd

Confirm SSH daemon now listens to new port:

sudo netstat -tulpn | grep ssh

If necessary add new port to firewall:

sudo ufw allow 12345/tcp

Remove old ports:

sudo ufw status
sudo ufw status numbered
sudo ufw delete #

Permission denied

After running command sudo docker stop <container> I received the below error.

ERROR:

Error response from daemon: cannot stop container: storagenode: permission denied

SOLUTION:

sudo aa-remove-unknown

Updating StorJ on Synology & Ubuntu

Shutdown

sudo docker stop -t 300 storagenode

Start

sudo docker start storagenode

List containers

sudo docker container ls

Update Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo reboot

Set Synology to auto-update.

Setup Multiple StorJ Nodes on Synology

Quick Start Node Setup Documentation

  • Get an authorization code:
  • Assign a local IP to your Synology NAS (this is not the same as your public IP)
    • Control Panel > Network > Network Interface
  • Forward ports on your router and assign those ports to your Synology NAS IP.
    • Starting with 28967 TCP/UDP and 14002 TCP for your first node. Add 1 to each port for each additional node. For this example I will forward 28967-28968 TCP/UDP and 14002-14003 TCP
  • Download the identity Binary
    • Login to Synology through SSH using your normal credentials.
    • Switch to root privileges
sudo -i
  • Switch to a working directory, I used: /volume1
  • Download identity zip file
curl -L https://github.com/storj/storj/releases/latest/download/identity_linux_amd64.zip -o identity_linux_amd64.zip
  • Use “7z” to unzip the file
7z x identity_linux_amd64.zip
  • Continue following the StorJ Docs…

  • Setup the node

CHMOD the StorJ data

sudo chmod -R 777 /volume1/storj/data/storage

If you’re running multiple containers, make sure to change the name of each container.

sudo docker run --rm -e SETUP="true" \
    --user $(id -u):$(id -g) \
    --mount type=bind,source="/volume1/identity/storagenode/",destination=/app/identity \
    --mount type=bind,source="/volume1/storj/data/storage/",destination=/app/config \
    --name storagenode storjlabs/storagenode:latest

For multiple nodes, use this command

sudo docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --stop-timeout 300 \
    -p 28968:28967/tcp \
    -p 28968:28967/udp \
    -p localNASIP:14003:14002 \
    -e WALLET="0x00000" \
    -e EMAIL="email@theabyss.dev" \
    -e ADDRESS="publicIP:28968" \
    -e STORAGE="#TB" \
    --user $(id -u):$(id -g) \
    --mount type=bind,source="/volume2/identity/storagenode/",destination=/app/identity \
    --mount type=bind,source="/volume2/storj/data/storage/",destination=/app/config \
    --name storagenode2 storjlabs/storagenode:latest

Synology & SSH

It’s always a good idea to change the standard SSH (Secure Shell) port unless you plan on disabling SSH all together. This will prevent hackers from brute forcing into your system. Instead of 22, use something like 93702. Really any 5 randoms numbers will work.

How-To

Under “Control Panel” select “Terminal & SNMP”. You’ll see a checkbox to enable/disable SSH. Check the SSH box and then simply change the port number in the input field.

For best security, when you’re done using SSH go back to these settings and disable SSH all together.

To access SSH, download PuTTY