I have the iomega StorCenter ix4-200d. It is a nice little NAS with a number of decent features including rsync server etc. Unfortunately there were couple things I wanted fixed since for example rsync was at version 2.6.9 which does not support incremental updates. Machine runs a custom Linux distribution so I figured someone must have figured out how to customize it. I found part of the answer here
To enable SSH you need to log in as administrator to your StorCenter then go to https://
Post has a way to bootstrap Debian on the box however I found an easier solution ie. StorCenter ships with ipkg utility which is similar to apt-get and yum commands. To enable proper repositories I searched and found them here
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=5823
Easy way to add them is cut and paste following
cat <<EOF > /etc/ipkg.conf
src cross http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/cross/unstable
src native http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/native/unstable
EOF
Then type
ipkg update
After that you can check the list of available packages by typing
ipkg list | less
To install packages type
ipkg install <package_name>
Please note that packages are installed in /opt so adjust paths properly ie. screen is installed in
/opt/bin/screen
Hope this helps someone