Good evening. I'm wondering how I can set up my Readynas 201 to only be accessable in my home with no connection to the outside world. I'd like to be the only one to add\remove\view material on it locally on my home network. Does anyone know if that can be done an, how I can set it up?
I'd like to be the only one to add\remove\view material on it locally on my home network.
The default set up will limit access to your home network, as long as you don't enable any cloud services and don't forward any ports in your router. The NAS would still be able to connect to the internet to download hot fixes from Netgear, synchronize the time, and notify you of firmware updates. It's best to continue to allow those services (and they don't allow remote access to your files). Of course don't install apps that enable remote access.
If there are others using the home network that you also want to restrict, then you can use the network access controls on the NAS to limit access to the files to specific users and/or a specific PCs. In this case make sure DLNA is not enabled for the NAS shares you want to restrict, as it doesn't have any access controls.
To limit access to a specific user you'd
Create a user account (with password) on the NAS
turn off Everyone access for the shares that you want to limit access to on the network access page..
Make sure the user account (or group) has access to those shares on the network access page.
Leave the file access settings alone (allowing everyone access there). Managing Network Access alone is enough to do what you need.
Note the NAS has a "home share" feature that does this automatically for one share. For example, if you create a username called myself, you will see a private share called "myself" when access the NAS using that username/password. If you use other credentials you won't see that share (other than the NAS admin account, which can access everything).
On a Windows PC you can enter the user account credentials into the Windows credential manager - (leaving the password out if you want).
To limit access to a specific PC you'd
either reserve an IP address for that PC in your router (preferred) or set up a static address for the PC
add that IP address to the hosts list for the share in via the network access settings
This method isn't as effective, but it would work if others on your home network don't have networking skills.
If you only want to access the NAS from a dedicated PC that has both ethernet and wifi (or two ethernet ports), then you could alternatively directly connect the NAS to an ethernet port on that PC. You'd need to set up a static IP address on both the NAS and the PC that uses a different subnet from your home network, and access the NAS using it's static IP address. The NAS would be isolated from both the internet and your home network, so only that PC could access it. Note that you wouldn't be able to automatically sync the time on the NAS, so you'd need to periodically adjust it. Firmware updates would need to be uploaded manually, and you wouldn't get any hot fixes.
