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Hi,

Just set up a new share and can port forward from external address to readynas on port 80.  Out of the box it's <readynasip>/<sharename> access via <externalip>/<sharename>.  Suboptimal as removing the sharename returns the password reset page.

 

I'd like to avoid giving access to anything but the share.  First though, can I set a custom port to the share? (ie: <readynasip:50080>/<sharename> access via <externalip:80>/<sharename>)

 

Would be ideal to end up with <readynasip:50080>/<sharename> access via <externalip:80>.

 

Happy to turn on ssh and configure if that is the only way.  Just need instruction, pointers.

 

Thank you for your help in advance.  Kind regards.

Model: RN31400|ReadyNAS 300 Series 4- Bay (Diskless)
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I think their mainstream use case is to use ReadyCloud to manage sharing.  Though I don't use ReadyCloud myself, I think that's a better approach than enabling insecure http access to your shares. 

 

But you want that, you can certainly forward Wan port 50080 to port 80 of the RN314 in your router.

 

If you remove the sharename, the system normally redirects to http://readynas/admin.  You should be seeing the login/password prompt before you get to the password reset page. With your use case, you certainly don't want to allow http admin access.  The way to avoid this is to disable HTTP Admin in system->settings->services->HTTP Settings.  Then don't forward https (Port 443) to the NAS - since most browsers will try https even if you specify http in the url). 

 

If you want to manage your NAS remotely, you can enable https on a second port (system->settings->services->https), and forward that secondary port to the NAS.  That should still prevent http://readynas:50080/admin from reaching the NAS (as https or http).

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Re: readynas 314

Not really a glowing endorsement of Netgear.  Might have to flog the tin and get something better from another provider with bigger community.

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I think their mainstream use case is to use ReadyCloud to manage sharing.  Though I don't use ReadyCloud myself, I think that's a better approach than enabling insecure http access to your shares. 

 

But you want that, you can certainly forward Wan port 50080 to port 80 of the RN314 in your router.

 

If you remove the sharename, the system normally redirects to http://readynas/admin.  You should be seeing the login/password prompt before you get to the password reset page. With your use case, you certainly don't want to allow http admin access.  The way to avoid this is to disable HTTP Admin in system->settings->services->HTTP Settings.  Then don't forward https (Port 443) to the NAS - since most browsers will try https even if you specify http in the url). 

 

If you want to manage your NAS remotely, you can enable https on a second port (system->settings->services->https), and forward that secondary port to the NAS.  That should still prevent http://readynas:50080/admin from reaching the NAS (as https or http).

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Thank you, StephenB.  That worked.  It's just for testing on an unimportant share so that works for the use case.  Obviously not recommended for production environments, etc.

 

Much appreciated!

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