It did not take me long, ok less than a day to get under the hood of the new NAS enclosure.  D-Link was nice enough to run Linux on the box.  As part of the boot process, the NAS executes can execute a script called /Volume_1/fun_plug.

A german developer has done all of the heavy lifting.  He packaged up a shell script and additional software to make everyone’s life a bit easier.  This includes allowing ssh access to the device and some handy applications including rsync.

A decient tutorial on how to install fonz’s fun_plug and setup access via ssh is: http://nas-tweaks.net/CH3SNAS:Tutorials/fun_plug