Apologies if this in the wrong section to begin with!
I've had a wee media server for a while now that basically just ran plex media server for a no more than 4 users. I just stuck Windows 10 on it and left it to it's own devices as I was sitting next to it almost every day anyway so was easy to do anything that needed doing. It was just 1 SSD with OS and 3x8TB drives slapped in, no RAID or anything like that.
Got a new job so won't be at home all the time now, and I am a bit bored, so fancied trying something new. Installed Unraid (30 day trial) and whilst it has taken a flipping eternity to build the parity drive and get the array up and running it is now working with 1XSSD cache drive, 1x8TB parity drive and 4x8TB. Plex is working fine but I would like to be able to access the server/shares from outside my hone network.
I know very little about setting this up so was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some articles online which might explain the process. From what I can glean the best option is to set up a VPN on a router and then use that on a remote PC to connect to my home network which would simply allow me to access it as if I were physically on the home network. Is this the case, also can this be done in Unraid as docker or the like as I would need to get a new router I believe in order to set this up as I doubt my Vodafone bog standard one would allow me to do this, although I could obviously be wrong given my lack of knowledge here
Any information would be gratefully appreciated, and even some pointers to some stuff to read online would be a big help so that I know I am looking in the right direction. It's not particularly urgent so I have time to read up and have a fart about with stuff.
Cheers
I've had a wee media server for a while now that basically just ran plex media server for a no more than 4 users. I just stuck Windows 10 on it and left it to it's own devices as I was sitting next to it almost every day anyway so was easy to do anything that needed doing. It was just 1 SSD with OS and 3x8TB drives slapped in, no RAID or anything like that.
Got a new job so won't be at home all the time now, and I am a bit bored, so fancied trying something new. Installed Unraid (30 day trial) and whilst it has taken a flipping eternity to build the parity drive and get the array up and running it is now working with 1XSSD cache drive, 1x8TB parity drive and 4x8TB. Plex is working fine but I would like to be able to access the server/shares from outside my hone network.
I know very little about setting this up so was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some articles online which might explain the process. From what I can glean the best option is to set up a VPN on a router and then use that on a remote PC to connect to my home network which would simply allow me to access it as if I were physically on the home network. Is this the case, also can this be done in Unraid as docker or the like as I would need to get a new router I believe in order to set this up as I doubt my Vodafone bog standard one would allow me to do this, although I could obviously be wrong given my lack of knowledge here
Any information would be gratefully appreciated, and even some pointers to some stuff to read online would be a big help so that I know I am looking in the right direction. It's not particularly urgent so I have time to read up and have a fart about with stuff.
Cheers