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ReadyNas 316- Help for a green newcomer
Hi All. I am a self employed consultant based in the Uk and like many business folk I use laptops for my day to day computing needs. However I was concerned about data security and the need to en...
HI Steven
No she is in a remote office 75 miles away. That is why i want to link up if i can as it will save lots of travel and enable the secure transfer of documents.
Any ideas?
AndrewWB wrote:
HI Steven
No she is in a remote office 75 miles away. That is why i want to link up if i can as it will save lots of travel and enable the secure transfer of documents.
Any ideas?
First I'm trying to get a handle on the usage. Is that NAS in your home? If so, both of you are accessing it remotely most of the time - is that right?
Hi Stephen.
Yes the Nas is in my home. I tend to work more from home than the office although i do need to occasionally access the Nas remotely. My secretary if of course miles away.
As an example, today I returned from my meetings with a load of materials which need transfereing to the office. mainly lage pictures, and scanned PDFs. Too big to email. ideally i would like to dump on my server from the laptop and then create a link so my secretary can suck the data down to the firms official server. THis would be preferable and more secure than say a One Drive or Drop box- or so my thinking goes.
Does this help? I am sorry if my initial post was vague.
No problem, I'm just wanting to make sure I understand the use case.
So the NAS in in your home, and you are usually home when you load files onto it. Your secretary is always in the remote office, and you need a convenient way to get her access to those files. Your NAS is behind your home router/hub, your secretary's PC is behind the corporate firewall.
One way to do this is to put all your data into a public share on the NAS, and and set up your secretary with a ReadyCloud account that has access to the share. She'd need to have the ReadyCloud application stored on the PC. She could access the share and read/copy all the files. The data does go through the Netgear Cloud Server, and while Netgear says that is secure, there isn't a lot of information available from Netgear on ReadyCloud security.
A second way to do this is to give the secretary a local account on the NAS, and enable the share for FTP access. FTP stands for "file transfer protocol". She'd have an FTP client installed on her PC - FileZilla and WinSCP are two free clients that would work. She could then access the NAS from her office, and copy everything in the share. The transfers would be encrypted, and she'd have to log into the NAS with a username/password. The setup is a bit more complicated than ReadyCloud, but we could walk you through it.
If the home office has an IT department, you might to run both of these approaches by them. Let us know which you prefer, and we can go from there.
Hi Stephen
Thank you for your reply. I think the readycloud route souds simplest for me and I attempted this as you will see. Sadly when i attempted to run the Readycloud on the remote secretarys computer it effectively said it couldnt find my Nas.
I could do with a step by step walk through of what settings i have to have on the NAS and on her machine to access the individual folder i have created for her. I hope you can help. Remember i am of very limited ability with Computers!
many thanks
Andrew
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