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Managing a ReadyNAS after ReadyCloud is gone
I've seen a few posts about ReadyCloud alternatives, but most seem to be focused on accessing shares remotely. I don't need to access the shares, but I do need to be able to access the NAS GUI to do ...
travis_dcc wrote:
I don't need to access the shares, but I do need to be able to access the NAS GUI to do firmware updates, setup users, etc. Is anyone else doing that with something other than ReadyCloud?
Are you saying you want to do that remotely???
If you are on the same network, just browse to https://nas-ip-address/admin or https://nas-name/admin (using the real IP address or hostname of course).
If you want to access the web admin ui remotely, there are three options:
- create a secondary https port in the NAS setup, and forward that port to your NAS from your router
- use an inbound VPN (like openVPN) if that is available in your router.
- user ZeroTier
(1) and (2) would also need DDNS so you could connect with a URL instead of an IP address.
(2) and (3) offer the best security.
In general, the same solutions for remote share access will also allow administration of the NAS via the "local" (local WRT the VPN) admin GUI, and even SSH. I was recently out of town for about a month and routinely logged into my NAS' admin page using ZeroTier as the VPN to make sure all was OK and my granddaughter could continue having access to her media. I saw the NAS shut down after a power failure went on for as long as the UPS could hold and trhat it came back up with no issues when power was restored. I used that same connection to download files to my laptop for my local viewing (my home internet is too slow uploading for watching directly from the NAS w/o buffering) and to keep certain financial data up to date. My financial data is in a VeraCrypt container, and that worked fine over ZeroTier, too (as I would expect it to for other VPN solutions).
Also, if you have an always-on PC, you can use something like google desktop to access the PC, and the open a browser on that PC. From there, just log into the NAS.
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