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Photo Station

Personal Photo Station is an online photo album with blog owned and managed by a DSM user. Synology NAS provides the home/photo folder for you to store photos and videos that you want to share. The system will create index thumbnails of the photos and videos automatically, and then people can view photo albums via a web browser.

To enable Personal Photo Station:

Click Enable Personal Photo Station - [username] and click OK.

To edit Personal Photo Station settings:

  1. Tick Set new folders as public albums if you want the uploaded photo albums available to visitors.
  2. Click Re-index to reconstruct the index structure of the image files if you found missing images in Photo Station.
  3. Click OK.

To launch Photo Station, do any of the following:

  • Go to Main Menu and click Photo Station.
  • Type the following web address in the address bar of your web browser: http://Synology_Server_IP_Address/photo/

To launch Personal Photo Station, do any of the following:

  • Click Launch Photo Station.
  • Go to Main Menu and click Photo Station - [username].
  • Type the following web address in the address bar of your web browser: http://Synology_Server_IP_Address/~username/photo/

Support and limitations:

  • Supported image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, RAW (arw, srf, sr2, dcr, k25, kdc, cr2, crw, nef, mrw, ptx, pef, raf, raw, 3fr, erf, mef, mos, orf, rw2, dng, x3f), TIFF, PNG
  • Supports video formats: 3G2, 3GP, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, FLV, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, MTS, M2TS, M2T QT, WMV, XviD, RM(1), RMVB(1), VOB(1)
  • If you upload contents with Personal Photo Station, you can only upload up to 2GB of contents at a time.

    • Note (1): Users can download files of the specified formats, but cannot play them in Photo Station as a compressed Flash video.

How to use Personal Photo Station?

You can upload image or video files to the home/photo folder and create a blog. To do this:

  1. Organize photos and videos you want to share into folders. These folders will become albums on Personal Photo Station.
  2. Upload the album folders to the home/photo folder.
  3. Point your browser to http://servername/~username/photo/ to view your albums.
  4. To create your blog, click Blog at the top-right corner, and sign in to start posting.

How to publish my albums and blog on Personal Photo Station?

To publish Personal Photo Station and make it available for people on the Internet, you need to set your Synology NAS to use an external IP.

  1. Log in to Synology NAS as admin or a user belonging to the administrators group.
  2. To hook Synology NAS on the Internet, you can either apply:
    • An external IP. Go to Main Menu > Control Panel > Network to edit the server's network settings if you receive a specific external IP address from your network service provider.
    • The PPPoE settings. Go to PPPoE at Main Menu > Control Panel > Network to enable PPPoE connection.
  3. If you wish to use a registered DDNS account, go to Main Menu > Control Panel > External Access > DDNS to enable the DDNS service.
  4. Finished!

Now, people on the Internet can browse through your albums and blog by pointing their browser to http://serverIP/~username/photo/ or http://DDNS_hostname/~username/photo/.