Networking hard drive question

[MattGameDev]

So, i move to college in about a week and every movie, tv show etc. i own is located on my 2TB WD MyBookLive hard drive networked through my home.

Ultimately, i'd like to be able to access this drive when i move to college (same province, just 9 hours away) but i'm not sure how to actually do this. I DO have an extra 1TB external drive i could load up with my favorites, however it would be much easier to be able to access the drive on my home network. I should also note that the drive does NOT have a static IP address.

So.. can this be done, and if so, is it going to require setting up a program or buying something? I'm trying to avoid buying anything.

Thanks!

- Nofatchx (aka Matt)

[Arty]

So, i move to college in about a week and every movie, tv show etc. i own is located on my 2TB WD MyBookLive hard drive networked through my home.

Ultimately, i'd like to be able to access this drive when i move to college (same province, just 9 hours away) but i'm not sure how to actually do this. I DO have an extra 1TB external drive i could load up with my favorites, however it would be much easier to be able to access the drive on my home network. I should also note that the drive does NOT have a static IP address.

So.. can this be done, and if so, is it going to require setting up a program or buying something? I'm trying to avoid buying anything.

Thanks!

- Nofatchx (aka Matt)

It would be a lot slower you do know that. limited by your mains houses upload speed.

[MattGameDev]

It would be a lot slower you do know that. limited by your mains houses upload speed.

I'm not concerned about speed, as my home network is pumping out about 35MBps upload.

[Eniqmatic]

VPN. Every. Single. Time.

 

Create your own VPN server on either a virtual machine (requires properly low specs, 512mb RAM max), or your own physical machine at your house. Use OpenVPN to do it. It's free, very reliable and has apps for your phone and tablets. I use mine one way or another almost every day, and a family member uses it to connect in from Kazakhstan and has no issues.

[MattGameDev]

VPN. Every. Single. Time.

 

Create your own VPN server on either a virtual machine (requires properly low specs, 512mb RAM max), or your own physical machine at your house. Use OpenVPN to do it. It's free, very reliable and has apps for your phone and tablets. I use mine one way or another almost every day, and a family member uses it to connect in from Kazakhstan and has no issues.

I'm not sure how that would work? I'm just looking to access the network hard drive. No information is actually on ANY PC located throughout my house.

I see this being an advantage if the information was on a hard drive within the PC on my home network, but it is not.

[Eniqmatic]

I'm not sure how that would work? I'm just looking to access the network hard drive. No information is actually on ANY PC located throughout my house.

I see this being an advantage if the information was on a hard drive within the PC on my home network, but it is not.

 

VPN isn't to connect you to a PC..

 

VPN gets you into your network, as if you were actually on the network. Thus giving you access to your network drive.

[MattGameDev]

VPN isn't to connect you to a PC..

 

VPN gets you into your network, as if you were actually on the network. Thus giving you access to your network drive.

I did some research and i can use WD2GO remote access.

[LucaZ]

Can you get any information about your device and see if I can take a look at it?

 

Can you port forward the public Ip address on the WD live on your router and see you can access it from tethering from your phone?