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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.

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2 hours ago, Zmaster2009 said:

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 suppose you could write a batch/script that would:

  1. Start a VPN service, ask for credentials, and log into a VPN host (your home network having said host in it).
  2. Connect, ask for credentials, and mount your network drive.

That said, network shares over VPN/the Internet are not always the best. It certainly (probably) will not be the same as local speeds. And I think you'd have to roll your own, as I haven't seen anything like this already implemented.

 

Sidenote: 1PB? Like, 'P' as in 'Peta'? How? Why?

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Network:

Spoiler 
                       ┌─────────────── Office/Rack ───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
Google Fiber Webpass ── Cloud Gateway Max ══╦═ Pro XG 8 ══╦═ Flex 2.5-8 ══╦═ Doven Wolf
                      La Vie en Rose (DNS) ═╬═ Narrative  ╠═ Veda-NAS     ╠═ La Vie en Rose (vmbr)
                                Veda (DNS) ─┘             ╠═ Veda (vmbr)  ├─ Ptolemy (vmbr)
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╩═ Ptolemy-NAS  ├─ Veda (Mgmt)
║   ┌ Closet ┐      ┌───────── Bedroom ─────────┐                         └─ Veda (IPMI)
╚═══ Flex XG ══╦╤═══ Flex XG ══╤╦═ Byarlant
       (PoE)   ║│              │╠═ Narrative 
Kitchen Jack ══╣└─ Dual PoE ┐  │╚═ Jesta Cannon*
   (Testing)   ║┌─ Injector ┘  └── Work Laptop
     Bedroom ══╝│        ┌─────── Media Center ────────────────────────────┐
     Jack #2    └──────── Switch 8 ────────────┬─ nanoHD Access Point (PoE)
Notes:                                         ├─ Sony PlayStation 4 
─── is Gigabit / ═══ is Multi-Gigabit          ├─ Pioneer VSX-S520
* = cable passed from Bedroom to Media Center  └─ Sony XR65A80K (Google TV)
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7 hours ago, AbydosOne said:

I suppose you could write a batch/script that would:

  1. Start a VPN service, ask for credentials, and log into a VPN host (your home network having said host in it).
  2. Connect, ask for credentials, and mount your network drive.

That said, network shares over VPN/the Internet are not always the best. It certainly (probably) will not be the same as local speeds. And I think you'd have to roll your own, as I haven't seen anything like this already implemented.

 

Sidenote: 1PB? Like, 'P' as in 'Peta'? How? Why?

I thought about this too but that would not be linked to the usb key. You'd just use it to transfer files you could easily transfer to the PC or set up from memory.

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