NAS over the internet.

Orionaut · 27 Aug 2016 at 11:48

Sorry if this is a dumb question but...

Is it possible/Has anybody done NAS (or equivalent) over the internet?

The situation is that I have 4 PC's in several different locations and would like to have 1 small folder shared/synchronized between them (A bit like, I suppose, Onedrive. But I have never used onedrive and would prefer it to be entirely under my own control)

Rroff · 27 Aug 2016 at 11:56

It is perfectly possible - but security is something that would have to be taken fairly seriously - one solution would be to use the personal/private cloud options with QNAP and Synology NAS.

Steveocee · 27 Aug 2016 at 12:52

Dropbox or one drive would probably be better but it is possible to do. Ideally you don't want your NAS open to the Internet so some kind of VPN server to connect to it would be best.

ov_sjo · 27 Aug 2016 at 13:56

How far apart are the locations (ping time wise)? Some file sharing protocols are very latency dependent (performance-wise).

bledd · 27 Aug 2016 at 13:57

Synology cloudstation https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/Tutorial/cloud_sync_files

Uhtred · 27 Aug 2016 at 14:01

bittorrent sync might be good for this.

Craig321 · 27 Aug 2016 at 14:02

Install OwnCloud on your NAS?

KIA · 27 Aug 2016 at 15:52

Steveocee said:
Ideally you don't want your NAS open to the Internet so some kind of VPN server to connect to it would be best.

This.

joeyjojo · 27 Aug 2016 at 18:27

KIA said:
This.

Indeed.

I rolled my own StrongSwan VPN server recently on a knackered old netbook running Debian. Was fiddly but the wiki is quite good.

bledd · 28 Aug 2016 at 09:51

Synology has it's own VPN server too

kaktus · 29 Aug 2016 at 20:24

hang on a minute, what's wrong with having your synology NAS accessible via the net? How else do you stream any content off it when not on your own home wifi network?

I thought the whole point of having it and having EZ Internet function was to get access to it via the web...

Steveocee · 29 Aug 2016 at 20:31

kaktus said:
hang on a minute, what's wrong with having your synology NAS accessible via the net? How else do you stream any content off it when not on your own home wifi network?

I thought the whole point of having it and having EZ Internet function was to get access to it via the web...

If it's accessible via the internet then that means the "internet" in general can access it. There are some rather shady people lurking on the internet and often backdoors are just that, they are not known until it is too late.