QNAP finder for Linux

I have a QNAP Turbo NAS TS410. And under a DHCP setup that is available where I live, it is difficult to figure out the IP address of my NAS box is every time I restart, since the router isn’t doing a great job with the DHCP leases. The QNAP Finder for Linux that QNAP provides has strict dependencies on a specific gtk+ version. The source isn’t available, making it impossible to use on my Arch Linux machine.

It got me wondering  though, what the app actually does. I installed the Windows version of it on a borrowed laptop and using wireshark, I figured a bunch of things, all of which I’ve documented here. With that information, I wrote a small command-line utility that will essentially do the job for me.  I call it qnap-finder and it is available on github.

A quick preview of what the tool shows when run:


$ ./qnap-finder
1)
Hostname    : blah
IP Address  : 10.0.0.30
Type           : NAS(TS-410)TS-419ITS-410


This is just the basic detail. There is a lot more information available, like the number of hard disks, the version of the firmware which I still haven’t got to parsing and displaying, will get that done soon. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. And it is quite possible that I haven’t done something right, so please feel free to contribute/fork or report bugs.

* Disclaimer
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This program is a work in progress and isn't guaranteed to work with all QNAP devices.
Although this is meant to be a replacement for the Windows/Mac versions of QNAP finder,
it is not guaranteed to work that way.