Idiots guide to accessing my NAS off site

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Morning all.
I thought I'd take the opportunity in the current situation to try and figure out how I access my NAS drive away from home. I can access it on various devices that share the same network, but am unable to access it when at a clients or anywhere outside of the network for that matter.
I started to look into it and was immediately baffled by the terminology. I have a Synology Diskstation. it's main use is a back up, ut I'd like to e ale to use it as a personal cloud too.
Any pointers to a tutorial would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Nick
 
You need a list of all of the required ports - then create port forwarding rules on your router. You need to know the internal ip of your NAS and ideally set it up so that it always has the same internal IP. You also need to know your external IP / create a dynamic dns if it changes
 
gilbouk said:
You need a list of all of the required ports - then create port forwarding rules on your router. You need to know the internal ip of your NAS and ideally set it up so that it always has the same internal IP. You also need to know your external IP / create a dynamic dns if it changes
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Thanks for the reply. When I mentioned baffled by the terminology.... :) I'm currently trying to find the ip of the NAS as a starting point. Router is provided by BT and is a new one as I have recently switched to them, so I assume I can find the ports on that. After that, it's all a blur
 
I would recommend Fing - it will show you all of your device ips on the network. It’s a mobile phone app.

You will need to gain access to your router’s interface so set up the port forwarding rules. By default your router will be blocking external access to your NAS so you need to tell your router to direct certain traffic to your NAS which is why you’ll need to set up port forwarding rules
 
The Synology Assistant can also be used to find your NAS’s IP.

The most important ports for your Disk Station are 5000 & 5001
 
This is not impossible to do - but it’s a little tricky to set up and if done incorrectly could lead to security issues for your work.
Is there a reason you’re not using a regular cloud based storage provider ? Such as OneDrive, Dropbox etc?
Even a free Flickr account will give you storage of 1000 images free (you can set your permissions to private etc) and you’ll be able to log on at clients premises to access your work etc.
 
For ease of use and security purposes setup the included VPN on the NAS. Using that and VPN clients on your devices you only need to forward one port with an OpenVPN setup. (UDP 1143 by default). Your devices will behave the same as on the local network as they will a local IP address.
 
Symbology have their own Remote access system search google for Synology Diskstation remote access there is more than enough info to get you working :)

one thing I would say is that we have never had much luck with this type of remote access, in terms of images.
 
StuartPearson said:
For ease of use and security purposes setup the included VPN on the NAS. Using that and VPN clients on your devices you only need to forward one port with an OpenVPN setup. (UDP 1143 by default). Your devices will behave the same as on the local network as they will a local IP address.
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Forgot to add you do not need to know the Synology IP address if you use their built in DDNS service, setup using the external icon in Control panel. Whatever name you give your NAS becomes it's remotely accessible web address. If you called the NAS the homeserver, the address is homeserver.synology.me
 
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I would go with the Synology apps for this as seems requirements would fit them
You don’t really need much tech knowledge to set up. They provide a method of connecting without needing to change the router etc
I can dig out more details if you need later when back home
 
Creating port forwarding rules isn’t hard and affords fastest possible connection without going via Synology servers to gain access. The whole point of NAS is to be able to access your files wherever you are. Limiting it to local access defeats the purpose
 
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