Freenas access

[epikgamerwmp]

Is there a way that I can port-forward my freenas so I can can access it when not at home?

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can, but look into something like nextcloud for remote access as file transfer protocols aren't very secure.

[Mikensan]

If you really need access to the Web GUI then you would be better served with a VPN.

 

To simply access your files - I agree with Nextcloud, it works great.

 

To play music/movies/pictures take a look at Plex.

[epikgamerwmp]

14 hours ago, Mikensan said:

If you really need access to the Web GUI then you would be better served with a VPN.

 

To simply access your files - I agree with Nextcloud, it works great.

 

To play music/movies/pictures take a look at Plex.

I need the access so i can add movies to my plex server when not at home.

[Mikensan]

5 hours ago, epikgamerwmp said:

I need the access so i can add movies to my plex server when not at home.

In that case I would create a folder "intake" and on your torrent client configure it to auto-start any .torrent file places into that folder. Then on your nextcloud server mount that folder. Now from any computer or mobile device, you download a .torrent to that folder and have your client start downloading.

[dalekphalm]

9 hours ago, epikgamerwmp said:

I need the access so i can add movies to my plex server when not at home.

There are multiple ways to accomplish this.

3 hours ago, Mikensan said:

In that case I would create a folder "intake" and on your torrent client configure it to auto-start any .torrent file places into that folder. Then on your nextcloud server mount that folder. Now from any computer or mobile device, you download a .torrent to that folder and have your client start downloading.

Great suggestion.

[Olaf6541]

If you have some hardware resources to spare, you can create a pfSense VM and host an OpenVPN server from there. You only need 1 cpu core and some RAM.

From there, you can reach pretty much everything (shares, webGUI, etc.).

[epikgamerwmp]

17 hours ago, Olaf6541 said:

If you have some hardware resources to spare, you can create a pfSense VM and host an OpenVPN server from there. You only need 1 cpu core and some RAM.

From there, you can reach pretty much everything (shares, webGUI, etc.).

If I were to set up the vpn on a raspbraspberry pi... would that work?

[dalekphalm]

8 hours ago, epikgamerwmp said:

If I were to set up the vpn on a raspbraspberry pi... would that work?

Yes, assuming the Pi and the FreeNAS server are on the same subnet.

 

You also don't need to specifically use pfSense. In fact, I'd probably just stick with a good Pi-based Linux Distro, and then just use OpenVPN to create a VPN Server. Configure it to serve out some IP's on the same subnet, and you're good to go.

[Olaf6541]

23 hours ago, epikgamerwmp said:

If I were to set up the vpn on a raspbraspberry pi... would that work?

Yeah OpenVPN also works on linux like dalekphalm said, so you can just put that on a raspberry pi.

However, a fast VPN connection requires quite some processor power for encryption and I'm not sure how well a pi performs. But for some basic stuff like accessing a webGUI it should be fine. And don't forget to port-forward the incoming connections to the pi.

[dalekphalm]

2 hours ago, Olaf6541 said:

Yeah OpenVPN also works on linux like dalekphalm said, so you can just put that on a raspberry pi.

However, a fast VPN connection requires quite some processor power for encryption and I'm not sure how well a pi performs. But for some basic stuff like accessing a webGUI it should be fine. And don't forget to port-forward the incoming connections to the pi.

Good points to consider. If the OP was doing large data transfers over the VPN, or was routing his internet through the VPN, then the Pi might be a bottleneck.

 

But if he's just accessing the FreeNAS GUI, I wouldn't be concerned (even if it did cause some slowdown).