Access NAS from another location?

Captain · 12 Feb 2017 at 13:43

We have over 500 films stored on our NAS which we watch through various devices around the house but is it possible to setup access for someone else in another home?

We have a synology NAS ds212 or something similar.

Cheers

neodude · 12 Feb 2017 at 14:18

You could use Plex on your Synology to serve the media and then the other person could use a Plex Client. This would all depend on your upload bandwidth and NAS processor power as transcoding would be required.

Craig321 · 12 Feb 2017 at 14:19

As above, Plex works nicely if you have a good enough processor for transcoding and upload bandwidth.

crazyDAJT · 12 Feb 2017 at 18:07

Have you looked at the synology dsvideo app?

I use it for playing my collect on my mobile devices, the issue is going to be the house power of the ds212 It will struggle to transcoded, this will be a similar problem with PLEX.

The other option is to set up a VPN (on the NAS) and get the remote user to log into your network

Captain · 12 Feb 2017 at 19:41

neodude;30496171 said:
You could use Plex on your Synology to serve the media and then the other person could use a Plex Client. This would all depend on your upload bandwidth and NAS processor power as transcoding would be required.

Craig321;30496176 said:
As above, Plex works nicely if you have a good enough processor for transcoding and upload bandwidth.

Do i need to pay for Plex?

crazyDAJT;30496758 said:
Have you looked at the synology dsvideo app?

I use it for playing my collect on my mobile devices, the issue is going to be the house power of the ds212 It will struggle to transcoded, this will be a similar problem with PLEX.

The other option is to set up a VPN (on the NAS) and get the remote user to log into your network

Yeah we use the DSVideo app on our smart TV' around the house and it works well.

VPN is worth a try too, i'll look into the specs of our NAS and see if it's capable of the job.

Cheers.

Craig321 · 12 Feb 2017 at 19:55

Nah you don't need to pay

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/202526943-Plex-Free-vs-Paid

Rannoch · 12 Feb 2017 at 20:10

Plex is excellent.

deuse · 13 Feb 2017 at 08:46

You don't say if you want to access the NAS outside your LAN. But if you do then
the easy way is to setup a free DDNS. Then setup accounts for each user.
As long as you have the bandwidth you should be ok.

hornetstinger · 13 Feb 2017 at 08:49

what about legality of this though..

crazyDAJT · 13 Feb 2017 at 08:57

Synology offer a free ddns service, I access my NAS all the time via "*******.synology.me"

With the DS video app I can stream my content over a 3/4g network, my ds214pay handles all the transcoding without a hitch.

ChrisD. · 13 Feb 2017 at 13:08

Plex is fantastic.

BigT · 13 Feb 2017 at 17:15

hornetstinger;30497887 said:
what about legality of this though..

There's nothing illegal about accessing your media wherever you like. It's your media after all. Unless you don't own it, in which case you shouldn't be streaming it around your own network in the first place let alone the internet.