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Block ReadyGear NAS From Accessing WAN

kaptainkahuna
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Block ReadyGear NAS From Accessing WAN

Hello,

 

I am new to ReadyNAS and the home NAS market in general. What I would like to do is ensure the ReadyNAS has no WAN access. I want to be able to access it from the devices in the home, but I don't want devices outside of the home to be able to access it. I do not intend to use it as a "personal cloud" (I have disabled ReadyCLOUD), and I do not intend to access it except from my home network. I have disabled all services except SMB. 

 

My router does not have port forwarding enabled. Is there anything in the ReadyNAS interface that I need to do in order to block WAN connections? I am looking for some "dummy-level" guidance. 

 

Also, can anyone else confirm that the default guest account is enabled and cannot be disabled? I have set up my share so only a specific user has access to share data (and not the guest account), so I think that's the best I can do...can anyone else confirm? 

 

Thanks everyone!

Model: RN10200|ReadyNAS 100 Series 2-Bay (Diskless)
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Sandshark
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Re: Block ReadyGear NAS From Accessing WAN

Blocking WAN access to anything on your LAN is the responsibility of your router, not the individual devices.  As long as you have not set up port forwarding or any kind of VPN (which would still need to be hacked into unless you were careless setting it up), the firewall built into your router should do the job for you.

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bedlam1
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Re: Block ReadyGear NAS From Accessing WAN

Not sure about your WAN query but I think you can deny Guest access by going to your Shares permissions and clicking gearwheel and clicking Network Access then uncheck "Allow anonymous access"

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Sandshark
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Re: Block ReadyGear NAS From Accessing WAN

Blocking WAN access to anything on your LAN is the responsibility of your router, not the individual devices.  As long as you have not set up port forwarding or any kind of VPN (which would still need to be hacked into unless you were careless setting it up), the firewall built into your router should do the job for you.

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kaptainkahuna
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Re: Block ReadyGear NAS From Accessing WAN

Great. Thank you both for the info!

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