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Hello! I have made a small OMV NAS with a RPi and everything is working well locally, but I want to be able to access it remotely when travelling. I am very new to RPi and OMV so I did a lot of research to determine Wireguard would be perfect for that. I found a number of guides how to do that on YouTube, but every single one is outdated and most use PiVPN which is now discontinued and I don't think necessary when we have Wireguard as a plugin. Would someone please guide me through the steps to correctly setup the Wireguard 6.3.7 plugin so I can access my Raspberry Pi OpenMediaVault 6 NAS from the Internet? Thank you and I really appreciate your help!

I've been successfully using my MacPro 5,1 with 5 12TB enterprise drives in a JBOD setup as my primary Plex server for a few years now. Recently, I've adopted a new 12.9 M2 iPad Pro for mobile editing, which has been fantastic. However, I'm struggling to access my server remotely outside of the home network for editing my photography and drone footage stored on it and be able to transfer large files to it when I'm also away. While I can edit using LumaFusion when connected to my home network, I'm unsure how to set it up for remote outside network access. Currently, I've linked it with SMB on the Apple Files app which I really like how it's setup as just a list of drives and folders. It's clean and simple. Any guidance on enabling remote access without converting it into a NAS would be greatly appreciated, as I need to keep it running MacOS for other concurrent programs

Im getting in a dead way here. I have tried Tailscale, Wireguard, SSH and I dont know what else to try. I need remote access that can: -Get full or almost full speed despite being behind a NAT -Share folders with friends/family -Supports Windows -Simple to setup I have my Windows NAS, I can open my ports and stuff, I just need something that can accomplish those requierements above

There's been a few posts lately where people have been having issues accessing a Folding Rig from another Computer using the Advanced Control client. Couple of important points. Even on your local machine Folding is divided between two parts. The Server which manages folding the Work Units (WUs) downloaded from the Work Servers and the Client that allows you to Configure, Monitor and Control the Server. Just to be confusing the server is called FAHClient and the Client can be either the Advanced Control Python Application or the Web Server built in to FAHClient. These two control processes on FAHClient have their access restricted by default to just the computer they are running on (the "localhost" or 127.0.0.1 (loopback IP Address)). The WebControl runs on TCP Port 7396 and can be accessed by any browser on the computer the Server is running on by the URL: http://127.0.0.1:7396 where 127.0.0.1 is the IP Address referring to the localhost or the IP address of the computer can be used: http://<ip address>:7396 The Advanced Control uses TCP port 36330 ( and can be also accessed using using any TELNET client that supports UNIX terminal emulation such as PuTTY, which the Windows Telnet Client, unfortunately does not ) In order to permit access to either the Web Control or using the Advanced client on another PC you have to allow access on the remote system. Assuming you are on a Local Area Network (LAN) and protected by a router with a firewall blocking external connections the easiest way of doing this is to use the Advanced Control application on the system you want to manage remotely to add the IP Network Address and Mask that will allow all the hosts on your LAN Access without a password. Using a command prompt and running the command: ipconfig you can display your IPv4 address and then click on the "Configuration" button in Advanced Control enter at the bottom of the "Remote Access" tab your network address and mask in BOTH the "IP Address Restriction" and "Passwordless IP Address Restriction" Dialogs. You LAN's IP Network will typically be 192.168.1.0/24 as this is the default for most home routers. Note that you MUST leave in the localhost address 127.0.01 and use spaces to separate the values. Once you have entered the new values and saved them you have to close the Advanced Control Application and Stop and Restart the FAHClient server. If you are in the middle of folding a WU first pause the Work Unit before closing the Advanced Control. To stop the server right-click on the "Folding" applet in the Taskbar and select quit. To restart the server click on the "Folding@home" desktop shortcut which will also launch the Web Control. Un Pause the Work Unit to Resume Folding and then try to access the Sever from another computer using either a web browser or the Advanced Control if it installed. Part 2 - HFM.net Part 3 - F@H Mobile Monitor Part 4 - Tunneling Madness

Hello! I'm moving to another country for school in a few months, and I'm looking to set up a NAS to run at my parents' house that I'd still be able to access. I'd leave my brother in charge of maintenance, so the only thing I want to do is transfer files back and forth from my laptop (in the remote location) to the NAS. I'm not necessarily picky on what OS I use, I'm happy to learn anything. I'm leaning towards TrueNAS just because I've seen a few LTT videos using that OS, but it doesn't have to be that.

So I live in Indonesia, things maybe different here, I don't know. But all I need to do is open a port so I can access my server remotely. Because the ISP provide a modem/router you must request port forwarding from them. But then they tell you its only for private IP, so I cannot open ports to the actual internet. In order to do so i need to upgrade to a dedicated plan, which is usually for big businesses. And as you imagine it's expensive. And yet I have cctv access.. So somethings not right here Is this common? Or is there a way around this? Another option I'd like to utilise is VPNing into my server but that seems to fail also. Maybe for the same reason.. Looking for any advice to access my server remotely. I'll upgrade if I have to. But it just seems unnecessary.

Can anyone explain to me the right way, or let's just say, the "go to" way to access my files from my Synology NAS while outside of my network? What are the substantial differences between using: a direct access to Synology File Station from a browser Using the Synology Drive app direct connection to my NAS as a remote network drive in windows files explorer I know that however I decide to connect remotely it will involve using Synology Quickconnect or either using a VPN. In my case I prefer to use Synology's own services because I'm not considering paying for a VPN yet, so Quickconnect it is. I have my NAS already mapped as a network drive in windows file explorer when I'm in the network and it's extremely intuitive because it's just one more drive in my PC, that's why the dillemma came on what to do instead when I'm accessing the NAS remotely. Thanks.

Hey, im running a plex media server under Windows 10 and recently changed my ISP now running the standard router from Vodafone which is the Vodafone Box. Now i realized that this runes with DS-Lite. So basically i can't use port forwarding. Now I have two options 1) Buy a new router like a Fritzbox 2) find a way to use Plex remote access without port forwarding in the router Any Ideas or setups?

Dear All. I would like to ask you all for a piece of advice. I would like to have my workstation accessible via RDP from a remote location. I don't want to have a public IP though. I have heard somewhere that there is an option to do something called dymaicDNS and that you have to buy a domain or something like that. Can anyone point me to a tutorial or can anyone tell me how to do it? I am not doing that just for the rdp connection but I want some additional database access in the near future as well. (thats why i dont want just a teamviewer or anydesk handle) I think that Linus sorta covered this in his remote garage door video... but I am not sure if this is applicable. Best Wishes. Radislav

Having a Computer, Server, or NAS setup in your home is great for hosting a plethora of applications and services that suit your daily needs. At times though you may wish to access these systems from a remote location. Depending on your choice of OS and how you wish to remotely access your system the software to do so can vary but they all achieve the same goal. This tutorial will cover various types of remote access software that is available on both Windows & GNU/Linux based clients & servers including best security practices and how to implement them. NOTE: The majority of this tutorial is for setting up SSH/SFTP methods of remote access. If you need Remote Desktop methods skip strait to 4.3 - Remote Desktop. Additionally if you would like the extra security of a Client-to-Site VPN checkout my other tutorial How To: Access Remote Systems at Home/Work Securely from Anywhere with Pritunl. This will require changes as to how you setup your router in relation to how you configure your Computer/Server/NAS so comment below if you need help with that. Index 1. Router Setup 2. Generating a Public/Private Key Pair 3. Server Setup 4. Client Software 5. Conclusion

So you have remote systems Folding for you out on the Internet and want to monitor them remotely? Exposing the Web Control (TCP 7396) or Advanced Control (TCP 36330) ports can be problematic as neither protocol is encrypted and is thus susceptible to interception of your data. A better solution is to use SSH Port-Forwarding or Tunneling. The following example is for monitoring from a Windows System at home to a remote Linux system using the PuTTY SSH Client on the Windows system to create a encrypted SSH Tunnel between the Local Windows System and Remote Linux System and was inspired by this post here. On the Windows system create a PuTTY Saved Session for the Remote Host: Don't forget to click "Add" Here we are forwarding the Web Control Port on the Linux System (7396) to the same port on the Windows System so we can run Web Control or the LAR Systems Client. Run this PuTTY session. Open https://client.foldingathome.org or https://127.0.0.1:7396 See the Results from the Linux System: NOTE: You can only do this for a single system as the LAR Systems Client used the https://client.foldingathome.org URL that re-directs to localhost:7396 (127.0.0.1:7396). You could redirect other systems to other ports on the Windows system but only the one using Port 7396 will be visible to the LAR Systems Client. Re-directed systems using alternate ports can only be accessed through a browser. For example, here is another remote system we are re-redirecting to Local Port 7392 on the Windows System: But here the LAR Systems Client won't work as you can not change the Port for it but you can still access this system using the "native" address of the Windows system 127.0.0.1:7392: The same method can be used fo tunnel the Advanced Control port (TCP 36330) from a remote Linux Systems to local ports for use with the Advanced Control or HfM.net. Part 1 - FAH Control Part 2 - HfM.net Part 3 - F@H Mobile Monitor

Yesterday I discovered the magic of Windows's Desktop Remote Access, which I will use on my crappy old laptop to remote into my desktop at home, so I won't need to use the shitty macs in my school. But I was wondering, Is there a way to set a "whitelist" of devices that are allowed to remote into my desktop so that only my laptop and only my phone have access to it?

Due to the nature of my work I need to access my main Windows workstation at home (in a different country within EU) from my MacBook M1 for lighter "task-based" tasks (not streaming video and such). I will be accessing my machine for prolonged periods of time (multiple hours at a time). Any good recommendations?

Hi. I am trying to get my PC configured to boot on the Wi-Fi card I have installed, but the option to enable this in device manager is greyed out. How do I make it selectable?

Howdy guys, my name is Joshua and I would appriciate it if you could talk to me like im a first grader in regards to this project and any help you may be able to offer as I am learning as I go here. A little background, I am attempting to make a "central hub" that can be accessed by all three members of the law firm I am working for. A LARGE protion of my time is spent downloading files from courts and prosecutors that can be as large as 800 gigs sometimes in order to review them. The internet at my home is.. not great, however my boss at his home has a fiberoptic connection that is awesome. That said my goal is to have a PC set up in his home that will be remotely accessed by the three of us from our working PCs at home or at the office. The purpose of this PC will be to download all our files for us utilizing this better connection speed and storing all this information in a RAID array as we are legally obligated to maintain it for a certain amount of time after case closure. What i would like help with is geting an idea of the hardware required to do this. i have a basic understanding of the functions of most integral PC parts but not a great understanding of what parts are most critical for a system of this nature. (example i know that a graphics card here isnt important but is RAM?) Also any recommendations as to the software we could utilize for this remote access would be appreciated. Im starting this from the ground up so a pre-built or custom pc are both a valid option here.

I have tried to gain remote access through computer management, yet it says that "You do not have access rights to Logical Disk Manager on 'COMPUTERNAME'." I have also tried to gain access with psexec,but the error message Access is denied to 'computername'. I have tried with powershell to get this error message "The WinRM client cannot process the request. If the authentication scheme is different from Kerberos, or if the client computer is not joined to a domain, then HTTPS transport mus t be used or the destination machine must be added to the TrustedHosts configuration set ting. Use winrm.cmd to configure TrustedHosts. Note that computers in the TrustedHosts l ist might not be authenticated. You can get more information about that by running the f ollowing command: winrm help config. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubles hooting Help topic." Any help on this would be appreciated.

Right, So i'm new to networking and servers. I'm going away for a bit next weekend and i want to be able to use my Vmware esxi server from the hotel i'm stopping in. I also want to be able to use the IPMI adaptor on my Server. Basically i want to be on my network from the hotel. Does anybody know how to achieve this? Thanks

Hello guys, I hope you are all doing fine, and I hope that I'm at the right place for this question. So, my question(elaborated) as stated above is that: How to access a home server sitting behind my router(ASUS RT-AC51U), using DDNS(ZoneEdit-Inbuilt DDNS service of my router) while I'm connected to a VPN server via OpenVPN client of the router itself? WHEN NOT CONNECTED TO VPN SERVER VIA OPENVPN CLIENT OF THE SERVER: I have a home server running with a local IP of 192.168.1.100, I have enabled port forwarding for this IP in my Asus router. So, when I access my DDNS Host Name i.e http://example.com, I get the website hosted at my local server(192.168.1.100) whose public IP is the IP address of my WAN which has PPPoE as connection type. WHEN CONNECTED TO VPN SERVER VIA OPENVPN CLIENT OF THE SERVER: I have a home server running with a local IP of 192.168.1.100, I have enabled port forwarding for this IP in my Asus router. So, when I access my DDNS Host Name i.e http://example.com,I do not get the website hosted at my local server(192.168.1.100) instead I just get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, if I'm outside the network of my router. But if I'm accessing DDNS Host Name or my WAN IP within the network of my router, then I get the website running fine. So basically I want to know that what should I do in order to pass the Home server IP(192.168.1.100) through the WAN instead of VPN? PLEASE ASK FOR MORE INFO IF NEEDED. Thanks & Regards, DigiGoon

hey guys i need your help VMware is used for virtualization so this is the case i have a domain controller (DC01) windows server 2016 standard, VPN server (VPN01) windows server 2016 standard client windows 10 Roles installed : DC01 : ADDS VPN01: Remote access (VPN) ------------------------------------------------------------- the domain controller has 1 nic (vmnet 1) the client has 2 nic's (vmnet 1) and (vmnet 2) the vpn server is not domain member and got one nic (vmnet2) the client is domain member of the domain controller. (they are both connected to each other with (VMNET 1) so. i want my client to connect to the vpn server without being in the vpn01 being in the domain is this possible? this may be a stupid question with broken English, sorry about that i would appreciate your help.

I have a rockstor nas, and I can't manage it remotely. The nas says I can access the web-GUI at 192.168.0.26 or 127.0.0.1, but neither is working. I tried looking up the IP address on multiple computers, but it says its not responding. It's on a dell r410 if that helps.

I recently purchased a chromebook for my grandparents to help ease them into the online world. A little research revealed that chrome remote desktop could be used to access their desktop remotely so I could help them with whatever issues/questions they might have. Setup appeared to be simple but never actually worked, with this extension giving an error stating that it was obsolete when installed: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp?hl=en It directed me to this site too, which prompts to install the SAME remote desktop extension that is not supported. This led me to conclude that remote access to a chromebook is not supported at this time. Has anyone else been able to make this work? I'd use RDP or VNC if I could but the software on the chromebook is locked down so heavily. To clarify, I am trying to access the Chromebook from another computer, not trying to use the Chromebook to connect to another computer. The latter works flawlessly.

I have the Unifi Controller setup as a jail on my FreeNAS server that is controlling my AP-AC-Lite. I can use the app (iOS) for local connections to manage my network, but I can't access it outside of the network on my phone or computer. When I go to unifi.ubnt.com on my laptop, I can see my AP listed, but I cant manage it outside of the local IP. I have open port 8443 and tried to access it just by entering https://mypublicip:8443 in my browser and it just refuses to connect. I try to use that URL for the app as well and it doesn't work. I have a domain through google I would like to use to access my controller via my phone, but I can't figure out how that works. I've already added in my controller under settings>controller>controller hostname/ip, but that hasn't changed anything. The only physical Unifi hardware I have is the AP. Controller is through FreeNAS.

Hi. I have at home a NAS of 1pb of storage. It has full connection to the internet. I have several laptops I take with me depending on jobs I go an do. Besides using a USB external drive. Is their a way to set up a flash drive to basically have the information to connect to my Nas at home where ever I am and simply brings up the network drive just like at home. But require the USB flash drive with password for it to come up. I do not want to set up the laptop to always connect to it so I want it only doable with the flash drive.

I need to access my home router from overseas in a month. I followed a tutorial I found on YouTube - (I just chose the one with the most views) It seemed pretty straightforward and did everything including the No-IP bit.... I set up a domain and I can now access my router from my newly created domain and not the 192.XXX.XX.X one. However, I can't access it from mobile data so it's pretty much useless....I need to be on the WiFi itself to access it from the different domain so it's pointless. Now I'm guessing that the mistake I made is in the remote Management config, cz I just enabled it and that's it....I didn't change anything. It's at the default "0.0.0.0".... I set up the DDNS bit according to the video and that part (I think) went well..... But idk what to do in the remote access ip....what IP do I put in there? The default admin ip which I used to access the router which is 192.XXX.X.X? The public IP I get when I search up "what is my ip" on Google while using my mobile data? Or the "target IP"/IPv4 I find in my No-IP account associated with my created domain? Or a completely different IP that I have no idea about? I get the port is 8080, but what IP? My router is a Tenda AC15 AC1900. Need help cz I'm practically clueless.

Hi, I need a lot of different Mac OS (X) versions on hand for different software only running on those versions. For now I am just using an external SSD with my VMs for Mac OS X 10.4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15 which run virtualized in Proxmox. While the performance is pretty good this way, it is annoying to always shut down the VMs, unplug the SSD and move it over to another Computer when I want to access the VMs from a different Workstation. Since I'm also reworking my Server at this moment to run Proxmox for my Linux VMs I though of moving my Mac instances over to Proxmox. I'm probably pretty spoiled by the performance and ease of use with Parallels so I'm looking for a decent Remote Access Tool for those VMs. Proxmox's NoVNC just plain sucks (also no shared Clipboard). So far I tried using the built-in Screensharing in Mac OS and connect from another mac with the built-in VNC Viewer which does work, share clipboards and I can even drag and drop files, but it shows both cursors (the "virtual" one and the real one) and the virtual one is lagging behind a lot, so the experience is suboptimal. Also, colors look pretty poor. Using RealVNC's VNC Connect with Mac OS's VNC Server is a better experience, image quality is better and I only have one mouse. Moving windows or images (creating a fast changing image) is lagging behind and is showing the progressive scan. Then I tried Parallels Web Access which (so far) has the best framerate, but has a high latency and is noticably compressed (which makes sense since it streams over their servers). What other options are there that allow clipboard sharing and have a good performance? Preferrably no Cloud-based solutions. Bandwith usage within the home network doesn't matter and shouldn't be a factory when deciding on a solution. I do not have issues with paid software if it delivers good results. So far my RealVNC version delivers the best performance and experience. Oh and then there is one more option... Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server). I havent looked into that a lot as it is not very cheap and has an annual subscription. Has anyone tried that and how does it work? Or do you have other ideas on how to accomplish this task? Maybe other hypervisors that support remote desktop natively? Thank you very much in advance and also thank you for reading through my novel :) ~Aufideskuljin Tl;dr: looking for tools similar to remote desktop on windows for mac os.