Accessing NAS from internet

NYCDrewNYCDrew NYC(duh)
edited June 2008 in Science & Tech
I have a Network Attacked Storage that I can access from any computer in my network by mapping the network drive using the LAN IP address.

How can I access the NAS over the internet? I know that I need to use my WAN IP to find my router over the internet, but how do I then find files on my NAS?

I'm guessing it has something to do with setting ports to have the router route to the NAS?

Can someone post a sample URL that I would use when I'm accessing my network over the internet?

Thanks.

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited June 2008
    Gods man you don't want to port forward to your nas to get direct file access that would be about the dumbest thing you can possibly do. In fact I'm pretty sure you can't port forward for file sharing, as it's protected.

    What you would need to do is create a vpn connection to one of the computers on your network and then you'll have a tunnel into your network. Then you can map the drive. So you can use the windows VPN client to do that then have your router port forward the VPN port (I can't remember what it is off the top of my head) to that PC. Create the tunnel then you can map the drive.

    One thing though. if your home network is 192.168.1.x and your nas is 192.168.1.5 (for example) if you are on a remote network with an ip of 192.168.1.x and you try to map to 192.168.1.5, even through your vpn. It'll fail.
  • NYCDrewNYCDrew NYC(duh)
    edited June 2008
    A VPN would be the safest way to access it.

    My NAS is a QNAP T-109 Turbo Station. It's main feature is that it can be used as an FTP server, web server, etc..., so I really am looking to be able to access it directly.

    Any ideas?
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2008
    Well if it has a built in ftp server than that would work, but what is your upstream? That could really put a hurt on you as far as file transfers go.

    If you want to do vpn you should just get a router (such as smoothwall) that will act as a vpn server and get you connected to the whole network instead of getting to one computer and then the network through that computer.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited June 2008
    If you can use it as an ftp/web/etc... server then you just would need to port forward those requests. So if you want ftp port forward 25 to the box if you want web that's port 80 etc...

    If you want every request to go there put it on the DMZ for your router. Though I wouldn't suggest it unless you have some good built in security on that box. It'd be a sitting duck.
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