Photo Station and General Settings

DSM admin (or a user belonging to the administrators group if Photo Station's account system is set as DSM accounts) can go to About Me to edit personal information and Settings > General to manage the basic settings of user accounts, display language, Personal Photo Station service, photo sharing over social networks, etc.

Edit Personal Information

Photo Station administrators can edit their self introduction and contact information on the About Me page.

To edit the About Me page:

Go to About me > Edit. You can also customize the About Me title and change the visibility of the page by clicking More.

Choose Account System

Photo Station administrators can choose to integrate DSM user accounts into Photo Station, or manage independent user accounts.

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To choose an account system for Photo Station:

  1. Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General.
  2. In the User Accounts section, choose either of the following options:

Manage User Accounts and Groups

Photo Station administrators can create, edit, or delete user accounts. In addition, users can be organized into groups for easier management.

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To create a user account:

  1. Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > User Accounts.
  2. Click Create User, enter user information and assign privileges.
  3. According to your preferences, do any of the following:

To create a user group:

  1. Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > Groups.
  2. Click Create Group, enter the information for the group, edit its members and assign privileges.

To manage users' or groups' privileges to existing albums:

Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and go to Settings > User Accounts or Groups to grant users/groups the right to perform specific tasks on all existing albums at once. Or you can navigate to Albums, browse to an album and click More > Edit Album Properties to modify user/group privileges to that album.

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Change Display Language

You can change Photo Station's display language to be the same as that of Synology NAS or your browser.

To change display language:

Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General. Choose an option from the Display language drop-down menu.

Enable Personal Photo Station Service for DSM Users

DSM admin (or a user belonging to the administrators group if Photo Station's account system is set as DSM accounts) can enable Personal Photo Station service to allow all DSM users to have their own Personal Photo Station.

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To enable Personal Photo Station service for DSM users:

  1. Log in to DSM as admin (or a user belonging to the administrators group), go to Main Menu > Control Panel > User> Advanced and tick Enable user home service to enable user home service.
  2. Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and go to Settings > General. Tick Enable Personal Photo Station service.
  3. When the Personal Photo Station service is enabled, go back to DSM again, and then choose Options > Photo Station from the Options menu (with a figure icon) at the top-right corner of DSM desktop to enable their Personal Photo Station.

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Configure Router Ports

When you set up Photo Station's port forwarding rule on your router, if you specify different port numbers for the router port (assigned on your router) and the local port (assigned on your Synology NAS), you will need to enter the router port number here to make sure Photo Station files you shared to Internet services (such as external photo editors or social networks) can be accessed successfully.

First, set up an additional port for Photo Station:

  1. Go to Control Panel.
  2. Adjust relevant settings depending on the DSM version in use:

Then, enable router port configuration:

  1. Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General.
  2. In the Router Port section, enter the DNS hostname or public IP address of your Synology NAS in the Hostname or static IP field.
  3. Enter the router port number you specified when you set up Photo Station's port forwarding rule on your router in the HTTP or HTTPS fields.