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 Settings > General to manage the basic settings of user accounts, display language, Personal Photo Station service, photo sharing over social networks, website information, etc.
Choose Account System
Photo Station administrators can choose to integrate DSM user accounts into Photo Station, or manage independent user accounts.
Note: This option is not available for Personal Photo Station.
To choose an account system for Photo Station (not available for Personal Photo Station):
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Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General > User Accounts.
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Choose either of the following options from the Account system drop-down menu:
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DSM accounts: This option allows DSM admin to integrate DSM accounts into Photo Station.
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Photo Station accounts: This option allows DSM admin to manage independent accounts for Photo Station.
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Click Save.
Manage User Accounts
Photo Station administrators can create, edit, or delete user accounts.
Note: Creating or deleting user accounts is not available if Photo Station's account system is set as DSM accounts. You will need to log in to DSM as DSM admin (or a user belonging to the administrators group), and then go to Main Menu > Control Panel > User to manage the user accounts.
To create a user account:
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Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > User Accounts.
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Click Create User and enter the username, description, and password.
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If you like, do any of the following in the Other Settings section:
- Choose whether you want to disable this account. Doing so will deny the user's access until it's enabled again.
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Choose whether to allow this user to modify his/her account information.
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Choose whether you want to set this user as Photo Station’s administrator. If this user is set as admin, he/she will be able to sign in with his/her own account and perform administrative privileges.
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Click Save.
To edit a user account:
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Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > User Accounts.
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Select the user and click Edit.
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Make changes to the settings. (See To create a user account above for more information.)
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If you want to modify the user's access privileges to existing photo albums, tick the Browse Album or Upload Files checkboxes under the Access Permissions tab.
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Click Save.
To delete a user account:
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Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > User Accounts.
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Select the user, click Delete, and then click Yes.
Change Display Language
You can change Photo Station's display language to
be the same as that of DiskStation or your browser.
To change display language:
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Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General > Language.
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Choose an option from the Display language drop-down menu and then click Save.
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.
To enable Personal Photo Station, you need to activate DSM's user home service, Personal Photo Station in Photo Station, and DSM options.
Note: Only local users can use Personal Photo Station.
To enable Personal Photo Station service for DSM users:
- First of all, log in to DSM as admin (or a user belonging to the administrators group), go to Main Menu > Control Panel > User, click User Home to enable user home service.
- Open Photo Station to sign in as DSM admin, and go to Settings > General > Personal Photo Station. Tick Enable Personal Photo Station service and click Save.
- 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.
Share with Social Networks
When you browse your albums, you can share links and upload photos and videos from Photo Station to your social network accounts, or sync Photo Station albums with Facebook.
To manage social networking websites:
- Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General > Social Network Settings.
- All website services supported by Photo Station are enabled by default. If you want to disable certain services, click Social Network List to change the setting. Once disabled, they will not be available on the Share drop-down menu for sharing.
- Click OK to save the changes.
To upload photos to social networks:
- Browse to the photos you want to upload, and then choose Share > Upload to [social networking websites].
- In the window that appears, click Connect with [social networking websites] and then authorize with your social network account.
- If you want to upload the photos to a new album, choose Create a new album and name the new album. If you want to upload the photos to an existing album, choose Upload to an existing album and choose the album from the drop-down menu.
- Click OK and click Close when the upload process is done.
Now you can log in to Facebook to see the uploaded photos.
To authorize with Facebook before syncing albums:
- Go to Settings > General > Social Network Settings.
- Click Connect with Facebook, authorize using your Facebook account info, and then click Log In.
If the account is successfully authorized, the status will be changed to "[Facebook account name] is authorized".
- Tick Sync with Facebook regularly if you want Photo Station to sync albums with Facebook regularly.
- If you want to remove Facebook authorization, click Remove authorization and then click Yes.
To manage other social network settings:
- If you want to upload high quality photos for better browsing experience, tick Upload original photos to social networking websites.
- If you want to grant Photo Station users privileges to share links (such as photos, videos, or blog articles) and upload photos or videos over social networks, enable Allow users to share links on and upload photos or videos to social networking websites first.
- If you want to give guests visiting your Photo Station the rights to share your links (such as photos, videos, or blog articles) to social networks, tick Allow guests to share links on social networking websites.
To sync a Photo Station album with Facebook:
- Make sure you have completed Facebook authorization (see above).
- When you are within an album, choose More > Sync with Facebook.
- In the window that appears, name the new Facebook album, and then click OK.
- If you want to sync the album immediately, choose More > Sync with Facebook right now.
Now you can log in to Facebook to see the synced album. You can also see synced albums by going to Photo Station's home page and clicking Albums synced with Facebook.
To stop syncing with Facebook:
When you are within a synced album, choose More > Don't sync with Facebook.
Configure Router Ports
When you set up Photo Station's port forwarding rule on your router, if you specifies different port numbers for the router port (assigned on your router) and the local port (assigned on your DiskStation), 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.
To enable router port configuration:
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Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General > Router Port.
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Enter the DNS hostname or public IP address of your DiskStation in the Hostname or static IP field.
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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.
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Click Save.
Introduce Photo Station Info
Photo Station allows you to introduce website information by creating a web link on Photo Station's home page to an external website. The web content can include privacy policy, legal notice, advertising, personal statement, etc. depending on your role (business or home users) and purpose of use of Photo Station.
To create a web link on Photo Station's home page:
- Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General > About.
- Enter a link title which will appear on the home page of Photo Station in the Link title field, like Site Map or Legal Notice.
- Assign a website link to the title in the Web address field. Photo Station viewers will be directed to a particular web page by clicking the link.
Manage Other Settings
You can set newly-created folders as albums accessible to everyone and hide the Photo Station thumbnail from DSM's Menu.
To manage other settings:
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Sign in to Photo Station as DSM admin, and then go to Settings > General > Other Settings.
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Tick the checkboxes in the Other Settings section according to your preferences, and then click Save.