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| 1325956 | 2013-02-01 07:03:00 | Hey guys I have just installed a NAS drive on my home network and have been trying to figure out how i can further set it up for accessing/updating/backing up my files remotely. Help would be much appreciated. Thank heaps :) |
almightynugget (13536) | ||
| 1325957 | 2013-02-01 07:27:00 | LogMeIn / TeamViewer? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1325958 | 2013-02-01 08:46:00 | Whats the NAS Device ( make and model) ? Some have inbuilt remote access. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1325959 | 2013-02-01 10:58:00 | @Wainuitech Its a Welland ME-747 ANS, From what I've seen from the built in web GUI there doesn't seem to be any inbuilt feature for remote access. @Chilling Silence I'm sorry I didn't specify that I would like to back it up from home to anywhere else that I am accessing the drive from and don't wan't to have a computer switched on 24/7. It works well enough with the internal network though. |
almightynugget (13536) | ||
| 1325960 | 2013-02-01 12:21:00 | What do you mean when you say "I would like to back it up from home to anywhere else that I am"? How much data are you thinking of transferring? It will be a fairly slow process over a domestic ADSL line. In any case, it looks like it is limited to SMB/HTTP/FTP - so no SFTP or SSH connection. This makes it a bit more difficult to get secure access over the internet, as none of the supported protocols offer native encryption of the connection. You could have a VPN server on your home network, which you connect to from wherever, giving you full network access as if you were local. You could also connect via an SSH tunnel, which would provide a secure connection over which you can do any of the supported protocols. In practice, this is fairly complex with SMB and FTP, and in your case really only makes sense for protecting an HTTP connection. Both of these require another machine on your home network providing the respective server process for you to connect to, and effectively route or forward your connection to the NAS. If the web interface (and http data transfer) on the NAS supports SSL encryption, you could consider simply forwarding a port to it from your router, giving you http access from anywhere - but along with everybody else on the net. Presumably there is password security to control access, but you would want to be fairly confident about the implementation of the built-in webserver (or ambivalent about the safety of your data and every machine on your home network :)). You may also be able to apply restrictions on the IP's that can connect, depending on the capabilities of your router (or maybe the NAS can do that as well?) but you will need to know in advance what IP's you will be connecting from. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1325961 | 2013-02-01 20:34:00 | OK then you have one single option: Port-forward and use FTP to access the NAS. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1325962 | 2013-02-04 04:16:00 | Hey guys, been out of town for the weekend and tried to do what you guys have said but... @fred_fish - I have set it up and port forwarded to the NAS drive and I can access it but instead of going to any sort of storage drive, it goes to the built in webserver (the username and password were still being asked but not fro the drive) :( @Chilling_Silence - I have tried doing what you said but my orcon router says this: "Rule4's Inbound port is duplicate port with FTP Server port: 21!" I don't understand that because there is no other FTP port that is open and being used. Unless I'm misinterpreting the message? |
almightynugget (13536) | ||
| 1325963 | 2013-02-04 04:52:00 | You need to ring Orcon, get them to disable the default FTP server. That, or run it on a non-standard port such as TCP 2121, and forward that to your NAS's TCP Port 21 | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1325964 | 2013-02-04 06:20:00 | Hey guys, been out of town for the weekend and tried to do what you guys have said but... @fred_fish - I have set it up and port forwarded to the NAS drive and I can access it but instead of going to any sort of storage drive, it goes to the built in webserver (the username and password were still being asked but not fro the drive) :( Yes that is expected. Is there no way to transfer files from the web interface? The spec sheet said http was a supported method of data transfer. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1325965 | 2013-02-05 03:06:00 | @Chilling_Silence Tried calling orcon, they were of no help and had no idea what was wrong with it. Also tried running it on the 2121 port and forwarded it to the NAS but that had no effect either. @Fred_Fish No there is nothing there that will let me access files :/ I've been thinking about this whole NAS issue I'm having and looked through the web. I came across a site called freenas.org, is it any good? Have any of you used it or come across it before? I am willing to build a small PC to keep running (since this NAS drive that I have is being a bit of a pain). |
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