Accessing NAS folder off-site

[prismm]

Hi All,

I should preface this message with the fact that I am a novice when it comes to TrueNAS and have had my system setup and running for about 8 months now.

I have a folder on my NAS that I use to store music. Ideally, I would love to be able to access this folder on the fly from outside of my home network. I am looking for a resolution that would allow me to access that specific drive/folder (doesn't matter which as the whole drive is dedicated to music).

Does anyone have some guidance or pointers on how this can be achieved, but not overcomplicated.

Many thanks

 

[Ericloewe]

Set up a VPN and access the data the same way you would at home.

 

[victort]

Tailscale would be a good option. Or wireguard. Wireguard allows you to just send data destined for the local network through the connection.

 

[prismm]

Tailscale would be a good option. Or wireguard. Wireguard allows you to just send data destined for the local network through the connection.

Set up a VPN and access the data the same way you would at home.

Thank you for the advice guys. When I am looking around online, I can't seem to find any useful help for doing this on TrueNAS Core, only for scale. Do you have any pointers on how to do this kind of thing on CORE?

 

[victort]

This would all be done on a router, not necessarily on TrueNAS.

What kind of router/gateway do you have?

 

[prismm]

This would all be done on a router, not necessarily on TrueNAS.

What kind of router/gateway do you have?

To be honest I have a standard one provided by my ISP. Currently we have some TP link deco devices setup in AP mode but soon I am going to change this over to Router mode so one acts as our router, this would then allow me to setup an OVPN connection which I think would make this easier for me...

 

[Ericloewe]

Well, here's an example: https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/13.0/coretutorials/network/wireguard/