accessing shares over the internet

[jerk_shop]

Hi guys,

I'm new to FreeNAS, is it possible to access the CIFS share over the internet? If yes how do I start? I tried to search things over the web and the forum but haven't seen any.

 

[anodos]

You should look into setting up a VPN.

 

[DrKK]

Oh oh. You sound like you're going to get a visit from @RussianMafia, sir.

 

[anodos]

Oh oh. You sound like you're going to get a visit from @RussianMafia, sir.

No one expects the Russian mafia!

 

[L]

CIFS really is designed as more of nas based protocol. There are other protocols to share files over wan. Look at webdav that was just released in 9.3...

 

[jerk_shop]

I see.... the only safe way is through VPN? Wait wait who is the RussianMafia?

 

[anodos]

I see.... the only safe way is through VPN? Wait wait who is the RussianMafia?

Correct. The only safe way is through a VPN.

 

[Fraoch]

Wait wait who is the RussianMafia?

The Russian Mafia will visit you when the time is...how shall we say...appropriate.

If you actually did expose your CIFS shares over the Internet you'll be hearing from them soon enough.

 

[jerk_shop]

Well the stuff I'm gonna do is to assign a share to a backup which is located in a remote location.

 

[anodos]

Well the stuff I'm gonna do is to assign a share to a backup which is located in a remote location.

By "assign a share to a backup which is located in a remote location" do you mean "backup the share offsite"? If so, you should use ZFS replication or rsync rather than CIFS.

 

[pirateghost]

Well the stuff I'm gonna do is to assign a share to a backup which is located in a remote location.

By "assign a share to a backup which is located in a remote location" do you mean "backup the share offsite"? If so, you should use ZFS replication or rsync rather than CIFS.

And use VPN for the love of all that is holy

 

[Glorious1]

I don't know if it's necessarily better or worse than VPN, but accessing shares via an SSH tunnel is an alternative. Using public key authentication seems to make it pretty tight. I did a little how-to with details for AFP, but I'm sure it could be adapted to CIFS. So far no visits from RussianMafia.;)