SOLVED Access FreeNAS from external connection

[Tauq]

Hello,

How do I set up my server to be reachable outside my LAN?
I want to be able to see all the files as well as add and remove them.
What's the easiest way and what us the best way of accomplishing this?
Do I need to install plugins or just change some settings?

Thanks in advance

 

[pirateghost]

Owncloud or VPN are going to be the most recommended.

DO NOT open your CIFs/Samba share to the internet.

 

[sfcredfox]

Cisco ASA 5505's are really cheap (relatively), and do enterprise VPN (site to site and client VPN).
If you aren't a networking person or want something considerably cheaper, DD-WRT supports open VPN.
Even less than that, you can setup openVPN in a jail on the FreeNAS host, though I like the roles separate in case there's a problem, you don't loose both.

 

[Tauq]

Owncloud or VPN are going to be the most recommended.

DO NOT open your CIFs/Samba share to the internet.

Can you transfer any type of files with owncloud as you please? Movies, Music, Text files etc?

Cisco ASA 5505's are really cheap (relatively), and do enterprise VPN (site to site and client VPN).
If you aren't a networking person or want something considerably cheaper, DD-WRT supports open VPN.
Even less than that, you can setup openVPN in a jail on the FreeNAS host, though I like the roles separate in case there's a problem, you don't loose both.

VPN tunnels support drag and drop? And how does it work/easy to configure?
I'm new to FreeNAS but been doing networking a bit more..

 

[pirateghost]

Can you transfer any type of files with owncloud as you please? Movies, Music, Text files etc?



VPN tunnels support drag and drop? And how does it work/easy to configure?
I'm new to FreeNAS but been doing networking a bit more..

owncloud shows up as a folder on the client, you can put anything you want there.

as for the VPN, its not the TUNNEL that has to support it. A VPN is just a connection to the network. once on the network, you can use preferred method of file transfer just like you were on the local network.

 

[sfcredfox]

VPN tunnels support drag and drop? And how does it work/easy to configure?
I'm new to FreeNAS but been doing networking a bit more..

Supporting drag and drop is likely up to the desktop OS you are using and your connection. In my case, yes, we do drag and drop some times, using Windows to access the shares on FreeNAS. I have a robocopy script on my desktop (could run it anywhere I guess) that copies data from a CIFS share one FreeNAS to another CIFS share on a server offsite over that VPN tunnel.

As for it being easy, that's up to how comfortable you are with doing those network things. We use Cisco ASA's for the VPN connection. It's way overkill for a simple VPN solution, but we do it for many other reasons beyond scope here. If you setup a site to site VPN connection between two devices on each end, than it's always connected, and things are really easy after that.

I don't have any experience with Owncloud, so I can't really compare. I think this is very situation dependent.

 

[Tauq]

So VPN seems to be the best sulotion for this as it sounds.
However I'm mainly going to be using it myself and within the family. So I think it would be simplest to the set up VPN through jails? Would that be tricky or not to complicated?

Also how does a site to site vpn work?

Sorry for all the question, but without questioning you ain't learning.

 

[sfcredfox]

I would start on Google. Site to Site usually refers to a scenario where a network device (like a router) is doing the VPN. A client VPN is where a desktop is doing the VPN into another location.

You will need to understand the differences, and determine what you can do based on what network equipment you have at each location, or jails on FreeNAS.

Figure out the differences and what stuff you have at each location and start there.

*edit:
Terms to learn:
Site to Site VPN
Remote Access VPN
OpenVPN - open source VPN software.

Things to identify:
What devices are at each location (routers, and server like FreeNAS)

An example of a router that would do this is DD-WRT. FreeNAS can do this too.

Beyond this probably gets out of the scope of FreeNAS until you start asking for help specifically for setting up openVPN in a Jail, and still, I'm not sure how many people do it. You'll have to research a lot yourself.

 

[Nucshuco]

Have a look at Ownclouds webdav.
Map the network drive in windows
https://xxxxxx.com/remote.php/webdav/
works perfect