Unison Support?

Picking up an ancient thread, i got unison working on my Readynas Duo V2 (arm). Maybe others are still interested?

The best method seems to be as others have posted, to use root SSH access to the ReadyNas:

1) Download the RootSsh add-on for arm (or i assume any other platform you wish - see here: https://www.readynas.com/?cat=36 )

       For arm: http://www.readynas.com/download/addons/arm/5.3/EnableRootSSH_1.0-arm.bin

            a. Save the file to your local machine

            b. In readynas Dashboard go to Add ons tab, click the +(Add) icon, browse to the file you saved, and press upload. It may indicate you need to restart the Readynas. Do so.

2) Now you should be able to ssh as root to the Readynas from your local machine

         in Terminal, type 

ssh root@ip.of.your.readynas

         You will be prompted for the password: use the SAME password you use to login to your ReadyNas dashboard. You should get to a shell prompt

3) in the ssh prompt, Download the precompiled binary for Unison as found here: http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/

       For arm: use the 'For Arm, compiled under Debian Squeeze' version - http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/assets/unison-2.40.63-armel.zip

           in Terminal, type 

wget http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/assets/unison-2.40.63-armel.zip

      Tthe file will be downloaded into the library (home) of the ROOT user

4) Unzip the file you just downloaded 

unzip unison-2.40.63.armel.zip

    (Or whichever version you downloaded)

5)  Make sure that the extrated file is executable 

chmod +x unison-2.40.63.armel

6) Now you should be able to test unison in a non-standard way by typing 

./unison-2.40.63.armel -version

       If you get a version number, its working. 

7) This way of starting unison will not work well with the Unison client on your local machine, so lets fix that: 

cp unison-2.40.63.armel /user/local/bin/unison

       This command copies the file you unzipped to the local/bin directory using the name unison. Now you should be able to use unison by typing 

unison -version

        If that works, SUCCESS!

Now set up your unison client machine using the gui, or learn command options to pull from the Readynas. You can fully use Unison at this point. 

   REMEMBER:

            i. The readynas share will be at ssh://root@ip.your.readynas//full_path_to_your_share/

    NOTE: there is a // after the ip address to indicate a full path name to your share. If the share is created in the home directory for ROOT user, input only one slash /