Enable NFS on QNAP TS-209

NFS support is only available on QNAP’s Pro products, however here’s a hack to turn your regular TS-209 into a TS-209 Pro:

The Method

SSH onto your TS-209 II, then enter:

mount -o loop /dev/mtdblock5 /tmp/configcd /tmp/config

Now edit autorun.sh, add the following lines:

ln -s /sbin/config_util /sbin/set_hwtype/sbin/set_hwtype 2

Then unmount the partition:

cd /umount /tmp/config

Reboot the box, enjoy your TS-209 Pro II

NOTE: To examine if you’re running as TS-209 Pro II, go to Administration screen, check if you have the AD option in Microsoft Network section, and NFS in left panel.

NOTE: The NFS in TS-209 Pro II has some limitations, you can’t mount the exported filesystems on a Mac without some hacks, to make the exports mountable on OS X, take the following steps:

1. Setup your exports as usual (through QNAP’s web interface)
2. Go to /etc/config, edit nfssetting, change the access options from rw to rw,insecure,no_subtree_check
3. Re-enable NFS service through web interface.

That’s it.