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Remote Access/Networking
Jebus314
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So I have a question about setting up remote access over the internet. I figured since the PA community is awesome maybe I could get some awesome advice.
I want to set up remote access to a NAS (network attached storage). The setup at my house is a desktop computer running Vista home 32bit, connected to a D-Link router, with the NAS (not sure what brand) also connected to the router. The remote computer is a laptop with a dual boot of windows XP home and ubuntu linux.
I want to be able to connect to the NAS remotely and have read/write access for file sharing and organizing. I really have three questions, what would be easier to setup/more sercure/faster, ssh/sftp or vpn. Most important would be security, but I also don't want to have to trouble shoot every time I try and connect.
I was thinking that I could either ssh to the desktop and then use a mapped drive to access the NAS, or I could setup a vpn to the desktop and use the local area connection to access the NAS.
Also, along with recommendations on which way to go, program recommendations would be helpful as well, (i.e. openssh or winscp).
Thanks
I want to set up remote access to a NAS (network attached storage). The setup at my house is a desktop computer running Vista home 32bit, connected to a D-Link router, with the NAS (not sure what brand) also connected to the router. The remote computer is a laptop with a dual boot of windows XP home and ubuntu linux.
I want to be able to connect to the NAS remotely and have read/write access for file sharing and organizing. I really have three questions, what would be easier to setup/more sercure/faster, ssh/sftp or vpn. Most important would be security, but I also don't want to have to trouble shoot every time I try and connect.
I was thinking that I could either ssh to the desktop and then use a mapped drive to access the NAS, or I could setup a vpn to the desktop and use the local area connection to access the NAS.
Also, along with recommendations on which way to go, program recommendations would be helpful as well, (i.e. openssh or winscp).
Thanks
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