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I got a Synology Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, and a week later I'm using it for photo backup, shared Excel files with my spouse, and to run some home security cameras.

Since the NAS is on my home network z I'm realizing I'm going to miss being able to access these services out and about, like I could when I was using cloud services.

Does anyone have experience sharing Synology NAS functionality on the broader Internet?

For some context, I know enough not to do anything really foolish.

But what I don't know is what ways have worked best for others to access their Synology remotely?

Anyone using their Synology behind an inbound Virtual Private Network (VPN)? Anyone just making it routable with strong passwords over IPV6? Maybe with a simple Web Application Firewall (WAF) to limit traffic to what is expected? Anyone using Synology's cloud for this stuff?

I would like to setup something, and would love to benefit from your experiences.

Edit: Tailscale turned out to be a bit more than I need, so I ended up using Synology's built-in support for OpenVPN combined with Synolgoy's built-in support for Dynamic DNS (DDNS). I did have to do some pinhole routing, which I understand would not have been needed with Tailscale.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'll check it out. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I host a website on my Synology as well as frequently connect to it via SFTP. I don't know how secure it is, but I don't keep anything secret on there to begin with. At least based on permission settings it shouldn't be possible to access anything you aren't set up to.

I've also been looking into setting up a pi-hole so I would be curious what kind of affect that would have on a Synology on the same network.