Help! RPi NAS Setup

[Guest]

I am am looking to setup my Raspberry Pi as a NAS with a external drive attached to it. Anyone know what os/ program to run on the pi and how to connect to the NAS outside of my home network

[DerBernd]

Now we are getting somewhere. The Pi is not the fastest in terms of transfer speeds. There is no need to tell you here how to set up your Pi as a NAS as there are many better guides in the net:

 

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You can connect to your home network via VPN which would be the most secure. Otherwise Port forwarding and Dyndns (or similar services like noip or others) look into your router webinterface and see what is supported. Running a VPN server on the pi might also not be very fast. A Banana Pi might be more suited (SATA Port, dualcore, more RAM) for your project, but I get that you have a pi and want it put to use.

 

I'd run the raspbian image with the graphical interface. Then set up a samba share (see another bazillion raspberry pi samba tutorial).

 

The Pi is good for a great many things but file sharing is not it's strong suit. I would get a couple of LED strips and build myself something with that. If you want remote file access I would look into something like Owncloud which does run on the pi as well but runs better on more potent hardware. But try it out on the pi, sure why not, it WILL work, but not as a daily driver kind of solution.