UPADTE: OpenVPN connect for Windows recently updated, and broke this config. This is the fix: www.spacerex.co/how-to-fix-synology-openvpn-server-windows-unknown-unsupported-options/
Thanks for making this video, I found this very helpful. I wanted to leave an update that I just set this up using the latest versions of VPN Server and Open VPN Client on Windows and I did not have to remove "pull." In fact, removing "pull" caused the config to break. So I would caution anyone doing this for the first time, try it first without commenting out "pull"!
Thank you very much for your video. It helped me immensely in doing what I needed, and in choosing which option was the best for me. For the record, as of jan. 2024, the fix you link to (commenting the "pull" line in the config file) caused my Windows OpenVPN client to not be able to connect, so I ended up using the file exactly as generated by the Synology application instead.
I know this is a year old but blurring isn't destructive.. use a black bar or somthing that is destructive instead to hide sensitive information in videos. Just to stay safe my friend.
Hi SpaceRex : can you please do a video on how to install a parental controls package on the SYNOLOGY NAS that would apply PARENTAL CONTROLS to the whole LAN network -- that would be wonderful please?
Thank you, this video was exactly what I needed. I'm working on setting up a NAS for a small creative team, all of which are located in different areas of the country and this seems to provide good options on how to access remotely.
Thanks so much for this one! I ran into a problem that took me 6 hours to figure out whereas for some reason, none of my port forwarding was working. Ports weren't opening, and I could not establish a connection to my server from outside my LAN. I thought it might be because of my Eero 6 Pro router, but no. Just commenting here for anyone else to find. Hyperoptic, my UK ISP, holds back static ip4v addresses unless you call them and pay £5 a month. Now that I've done that, everything is working smoothly. Cheers for the great series
You read my mind. I was going to ask you to do exactly a video about accessing my NAS remotely. I live in NYC, but travel to San Juan often for a few weeks at a time. This video will help me decide the best way to access my files while I’m away. Thank you very much for taking your time to make this video. It is much appreciated.
you got a smooth voice...jesus like..its really relaxing. Enjoying learning about my Synology. Im honestly going to make me an old fashioned and just drink and watch.
FYI … Just got an email yesterday from Tailscale. The free version just got a whole lot better. 😊 Here’s what they said … “Some significant changes are that the Personal plan is now called Free, and it includes nearly everything that Tailscale has to offer for up to 3 users and 100 devices. You read that right, your plan just got better.“ Can’t beat that! 😎👍🏻
SpaceRex this is an outstanding video and stands the test of time. It is still relevant a year later and impressive in its breadth and depth. Thank you for your efforts.
Bro, thank you. I've been using Synology Drive Client, and it was starting to really piss me off when how often it simply fails to sync properly, but I'm not so great with understanding networking and thought that I was just stuck having to deal with it. I watched the segment about OpenVPN and my issues were resolved in like 5 minutes. Awesome, thank you.
Thanks for posting this video. I couldn't figure out how to sync new shared folders I created to sync to my windows computer. Something was not working right with my Synology Drive Client. Once I uninstalled and re-installed, it worked seamlessly. I thought I was doing something wrong. Followed your steps and got it all figured out!
I've been using Zerotier on a couple of Synology models (DS220+ and DS1621+) for the last 18 months which works really well. As others have pointed out in this discussion, CGNAT is becoming more widespread and Zerotier works transparently with CGNAT. Possibly a bit harder to setup than some of the options in the video, but certainly no harder than TailScale. The big plus from my viewpoint is on the "client" side - the connection setup appears to work regardless of how the client is connecting to the internet, especially when using a mobile/LTE connection. In the past I've had connection issues when my laptop was using a 4G/5G modem or a cell-phone "hotspot". I've never (yet!) encountered any issues with ZeroTier when using those types of connectivity
I need this, oh my god. But I have been struggling setting all of this network stuff up, always pushing through till I get it right eventually. Did you install in on root or with docker? I hope I can manage to set it up
Do you know what kind of transfer speed I can achieve between two 500 Mbit/s /up and down networks with this openvpn settings and by adding the 10.8… network share to the finder ? Right now, it struggles beyond 5Megs…
also if you are talking about remote access, then you should also cover the security aspects for this type of setup. There are so many instances of newbies getting wrecked because they setup remote and it was not done properly. So maybe some guidance on security tips for this type of setup should also go hand in hand with this topic you covered. the best security setup is to keep nas for lan usage only. but if you need remote, then the security aspect needs to be discussed so you don't slip up.
Like many of us, we have NAS as multimedia & pic sharing. One common and easy access on your local net often unaware & overlooked is DLNA! All smart TV's and even my Bluray player have built in DLNA players for photos, videos, & pics. Can all be done wirelessly (although I recommend ethernet). Synology has provisions for this. Great episode Rex👍
Well described, well skilled. I wish i could apply this also but i am suffering from DS-Lite on Vodafone in Germany and this offers no port forwarding but IPv6 Host Exposure. So my skills are not (yet) good enough to find a solution, youtube is rather confusing me with the various recordings. But i consider your sources as one of the best, understandable and focused. BR Uwe
Fantastic so far although I havent had time to really "play" with it. Ive been getting the raid setup and all the users and passwords squared away so far. Then comes the migration and remote access fun.
5 ways???? That’s why I don’t have this going 😅 But I will soon..thanks for this and all your videos! Hope you and your wife are enjoying Raleigh.. Lived there once in my early IT days..Will move back to Raleigh in 3-4 years.. beautiful place
Great video. Thank you. I am using windows. My mapped drives continue to work whether on my LAN (without Tailscale running) or remotely (with Tailscale). So you can use the netbios or multicast dns name perfectly. They can also be used to access the web gui for the Synology NAS. (at least this was my experience)
Thank you for making this video. For the first time I was able to setup my remote webdav access following your instructions which did the trick. Very helpful and useful video. Already sub'd you.👍
My remote access method uses reverse proxy. I bought a SSL certificate for my personal domain name and access DSM and all services running on my Synology that way. Using reverse proxy, I don't need to open any ports and simply have port 443 forwarded to my NAS. All access to my Synology NAS is encrypted using SSL. This method allows me to easily share my media library with others out of my home and allows users to login into their accounts via a simple encrypted URL. The VPN method is great, but I find it more limited since only specific clients configured for VPN access can be used - which I agree, certainly has its benefits. Using HTTPS is super fast even on lower bandwidth-higher latency connections.
So just one thing to know about this is it does leave the services exposed to the internet. There is a layer of security through obscurity in there with having to know the domain name
@@SpaceRexWill But doesn't having any other ports forwarded to the NAS also expose it to the Internet? Or when one connects through a VPN, there is still a remote connection being made to the NAS which requires credentials to be entered. What is the real security risk with using the reverse proxy method? Is it just someone guessing the login credentials? I want to make sure I am not making my NAS anymore vulnerable than necessary.
So when you have a VPN setup a user has to first authenticate to the VPN server, before being allowed on the local network. This means if something on the local network has a vulnerability, it still cannot be exploited unless someone gets on the local network, or through the VPN With a reverse proxy you don't have authentication, this means that if there is a vulnerability on that local service you have given access to, someone *could* exploit it, but just knowing the hostname
it's nice you mentioned tailscale. however for vpn server you should probably add setting up vpn server using router besides just the inbuilt synology vpn server setup. Some people prefer setting up vpn server on the router rather than the nas. It's fine if you want to show how the later is done, but don't neglect showing the former as well. Also tailscale is supported as a package on pfsense, so that is one less headache for setting it up compared to say hosting it directly on the NAS itself that requires a few more complex steps to setup.
Good point. @spacerex, if the VPN server is installed and a router also exists on the network, will other devices on the network still be able to access the shares. Does the VPN isolated the NAS resources from the wider local network?
23:39 If you click "Show certificate" it will pop up a Certificate description and you can check the "Always trust" thingy and then you won't see that message again.
Great video…as usual. I use VPN Plus to connect through my Synology router when I am on my laptop and away from home. However, I use Quickconnect and Drive to access files on my iPhone. Would I be better off connecting my phone to my LAN through VPN rather than Quickconnect and using Drive to access files that way? It is a little more cumbersome to connect but perhaps more secure and maybe quicker as you are not relaying through Synology’s servers.
There was a new DSM update yesterday due to a SSL vulnerability. 2-3 days ago all of my units using quickconnect and other remote access have been emailing me of this change. Synology’s help pages are pretty poor on explaining this. Will you be doing a video on how to fix this?
Thank you for the help! My wife has about 90,000 photos and videos spread across multiple devices. I'd like to consolidate them in a single place with a raid-1 type backup so she can view/edit all photos from her iPad. Max of around 2TB of data. Is the Synology system my best bet for making this work? Liked and subscribed!
@@g.o.9513 I use tailscale for the things which I can do at home, but normaly not at other locations. The second part of your question you really do have to ask Wil, because I don’t know. I think it depends on the speed of the internetconnection you have at home and at the location you are at and that sort of factors. Video editting and music production via tailscale is not a good idea I think.
Thanks for this video, it helped a lot. On a side note, I have to say that based on your persona and your looks ... you could have easily been a replacement for Jeffrey Donovan (aka Michael Weston) on 'Burn Notice'. I love that show.
Wow the timing of this video is perfect. I have been trying in vain to setup my Synology NAS with PPTP (I know old and weak) on my Android phone but it did not play ball at all. This came into my feed and BINGO OpenVPN worked first time with your help. Thank you. Just a quick question on the OPENVPN setup it asks if access to the LAN is required, by default it is OFF, I assume this would route requests from the external VPN network to the local network via the Synology router?
Great video, thank you! For the OpenVPN option I am stuck on the last step, importing the profile. Neither through importing the OVPN file nor connecting by URL. It keeps giving me a timeout error and I have no clue what exactly is wrong. So close, yet so far. I hope I can figure it out, any tips would be appreciated!
Hey, does it mount like a local drive? Western Digital just pulled the WD Discovery! so I lost "local" mount. I just need it mount so I can use windows explorer
With more and more ISPs using CGNAT WebDAV and OpenVPN is just something to dream about. And this year it is 25 years since IPv6 became a Draft Standard. Still almost no ISP use it, at least in Norway.
thankfully there are a ton of services coming out like Tailscale, which are designed for big companies, but allow people with CGNAT to still get remote access to the NAS!
Thanks for turtorial. One question about ddns, I disabled the ddns but I can still access my dsm. How do I turn off the access to DSM after disabling the ddns? I still want to access synology drive from the outside though. Thanks
Thank you for the wonderful walkthroughs! Question: Is there a way for me to connect to my Synology via DDNS when I’m on the same local network? My use case is essentially just working off my laptop at home with the Synology on the same network. Thank you!
Thanks. 1 Question: For the 5 methods described, I presume the authentification and the files are send over the internet encrypted? With a strong encryption?
When connecting remotely, do you only see a list of file names, or can you see thumbnails of photos, videos, and pdfs like you can locally? I want to open my giant collection of historic family photos and scanned documents for my family to see, so the thumbnails are important.
Hi, Will, very good job on providing these tutoring videos. Thank you very much. Here is my question, if my friend used option 1 and gave me his quickconnect link, a local user name and password, what is the easiest way of download files/folders to my Synology NAS? He doesn't want to bother with other methods. Thanks again.
Hi thanks for the great tutorial. I have a question about using quickconnect vs open VPN. A). When you transfer files (large amount) from one drive/folder to another. which is faster? If I'm not mistaken, with quicconnect Synology does the work, but using VPN my mac is in charge of the transfer and depending on my connection does thing go slower? B). Plus I can't close my mac until the transfer is over right? where as with quick connect, even if i close my browser the transfer should continue.
I was thinking about tailscale, is it possible to use Synology photo and upload every videos and photos during a trip ? I think it’s a good idea maybe. What do you think ? Right now , I use synology photo only on my local network and I let run synology photo on my iPhone from time to time to upload everything to my nas.
Tailscale just made some changes to their free plan. According to an email that I received from them yesterday ( April 18 ) : "Some significant changes are that the Personal plan is now called Free, and it includes nearly everything that Tailscale has to offer for up to 3 users and 100 devices. "
thanks. From the Synology Drive can you only choose one folder to sync? What if I need multiple folders? Also, are the users and permissions respected? thanks again.
Great explaination. is it pissible using the last method to restrict users to a group/folder on the nas so we can work together on the files in that folder without giving them access to the rest of the nas?
Fantastic explanations - thank you! I used WebDAV previously, but changed my ISP which now runs behind a CGNAT, so I am unable to use the WebDAV option further as I do not have a public IP address any more. I currently only use Tailscale, and it works fine, but have been interested in the VPN Server option. Do you have any advice on whether the VPN Server will work if being behind a CGNAT as I suspect the DDNS will not connect due to the public IP issue. Any feedback will be appreciated! Many Thanks!
Hi, hope u well, pulling the contents of synology drive to grid in c#, how would prevent the unsynced due to invalid file name or attribute error..as i get a yellow screen that i can seem to catch so i can give the user a message, is there a way i could do that
Thank you for your video! I was wondering if the Tailscale method would work with any file manager in Linux (in your video you state MacOS and Windows)? Thank you! 🙂
i do NOt understand and hopefully someone can enlighten me... i have seen a number of videos from different creators and they recommend connection via tailscale/openvpn saying Quickconnect is a vunerability. But surely , disabling admin user, and having 2 factor authorisation vis SMS , quick connect should be safe (unless incase synology themselves get hacked?)
Hiya Will (and gang and fans) Stumbled upon your channel and very great tutorials re-doing my entire Syn-Ecosystem - very helpful! Was wondering if anyone knows the best solution to access other packages remotely? Let's say a Sonarr, Radarr, etc. on their respective ports. I've noticed QuickConnect doesn't support this and solely wants to keep you in their little DSM bubble. Would one of the VPN options work here? Let's say, on my phone, could I then simply access those 'port-tools' from anywhere? Many thanks!
I have seen many of your videos but one important dealbreaker remains unsolved for me. No matter what I do, my remote access download speed from the NAS to the client device is super slow. I am not on QuickConnect (connected directly through DDNS). The download speed from it is around 1 MB/s. The NAS is on 1000/1000 fiber, the router confirms 1000 Mbit connection through the cat7 cable. The client device is on 5G (approx 100 Mbit download). There is only 1 client device. The NAS is not doing anything in the background. I hope you can give some feedback or address this better in a video. Thank you.
Hello, great Video thank you. Now I have a Question since Ian looking into getting a 4 Bay NAS and have to consider my budget I am looking Arcturus DS423 (Value Series). I know a plus model would be better but what are your thoughts on the 423? Thank you
Good overview, thank you! Can I use the OpenVPN method through my synology NAS to *phone in* from abroad and watch my US netflix shows? In other words: pretend I’m watching from home when I’m abroad?
Yes! This is actually better then using a paid VPN, as this is your literal home IP address, so it will not get flagged. You just want to make sure that you do not use split tunnel, you want to send all your traffic to your home! You can customize this with that openVPN config file
UPADTE: OpenVPN connect for Windows recently updated, and broke this config. This is the fix: www.spacerex.co/how-to-fix-synology-openvpn-server-windows-unknown-unsupported-options/
Thanks for making this video, I found this very helpful.
I wanted to leave an update that I just set this up using the latest versions of VPN Server and Open VPN Client on Windows and I did not have to remove "pull." In fact, removing "pull" caused the config to break. So I would caution anyone doing this for the first time, try it first without commenting out "pull"!
Thank you very much for your video. It helped me immensely in doing what I needed, and in choosing which option was the best for me.
For the record, as of jan. 2024, the fix you link to (commenting the "pull" line in the config file) caused my Windows OpenVPN client to not be able to connect, so I ended up using the file exactly as generated by the Synology application instead.
I know this is a year old but blurring isn't destructive.. use a black bar or somthing that is destructive instead to hide sensitive information in videos. Just to stay safe my friend.
Hi SpaceRex : can you please do a video on how to install a parental controls package on the SYNOLOGY NAS that would apply PARENTAL CONTROLS to the whole LAN network -- that would be wonderful please?
The T-Rex toy doesn't go unnoticed. Well done.
He needs a little helmet so he can breathe in space.
Thank you, this video was exactly what I needed. I'm working on setting up a NAS for a small creative team, all of which are located in different areas of the country and this seems to provide good options on how to access remotely.
Thanks so much for this one! I ran into a problem that took me 6 hours to figure out whereas for some reason, none of my port forwarding was working. Ports weren't opening, and I could not establish a connection to my server from outside my LAN. I thought it might be because of my Eero 6 Pro router, but no. Just commenting here for anyone else to find. Hyperoptic, my UK ISP, holds back static ip4v addresses unless you call them and pay £5 a month. Now that I've done that, everything is working smoothly.
Cheers for the great series
This couldn't have come at a better time! I'm trying to set up VPN access for an editor. Thank you!!
Very helpful Will
Thanks so much!
You read my mind. I was going to ask you to do exactly a video about accessing my NAS remotely. I live in NYC, but travel to San Juan often for a few weeks at a time. This video will help me decide the best way to access my files while I’m away. Thank you very much for taking your time to make this video. It is much appreciated.
Glad it helped!
Use TailScale? Curious about its performance on Mac.
you got a smooth voice...jesus
like..its really relaxing. Enjoying learning about my Synology. Im honestly going to make me an old fashioned and just drink and watch.
Yeah, he could do ASMR videos about NAS and have so many new followers :D
FYI … Just got an email yesterday from Tailscale. The free version just got a whole lot better. 😊
Here’s what they said …
“Some significant changes are that the Personal plan is now called Free, and it includes nearly everything that Tailscale has to offer for up to 3 users and 100 devices. You read that right, your plan just got better.“
Can’t beat that! 😎👍🏻
Amazingly helpful guide. Set up the OpenVPN method with no issues. You're a lifesaver!
do you have a description what have to setup in the router ? I missed from this video what router settings to make. Thanks!
Your videos have been incredibly helpful for a first timer setting up my DS423+. Thank you SpaceRex
SpaceRex this is an outstanding video and stands the test of time. It is still relevant a year later and impressive in its breadth and depth. Thank you for your efforts.
Thanks!
Bro, thank you. I've been using Synology Drive Client, and it was starting to really piss me off when how often it simply fails to sync properly, but I'm not so great with understanding networking and thought that I was just stuck having to deal with it. I watched the segment about OpenVPN and my issues were resolved in like 5 minutes. Awesome, thank you.
SpaceRex rocks & Synology Drive rolls!
You have made this set up incredibly easy. Thank you so much!
Thanks for posting this video. I couldn't figure out how to sync new shared folders I created to sync to my windows computer.
Something was not working right with my Synology Drive Client. Once I uninstalled and re-installed, it worked seamlessly. I thought I was doing something wrong. Followed your steps and got it all figured out!
The best Synology channel with the best haircut !!!
Excellent video with great information. I found this video while searching for info on how to access my Synology through the internet. Thank you!
great explanations - painless installation of the 3 and 5th methods. op show!
Thank you So much for Months we had issues connecting to our NAS via internet the 3rd Option for *Tailscale* really helped🙏
Thanks Will! Hope the move went well for you and you are all settled in.
amazing tutorial! you are so succinct and clear. Simply the best tutorial I have ever come across for synology nas on youtube.
I've been using Zerotier on a couple of Synology models (DS220+ and DS1621+) for the last 18 months which works really well. As others have pointed out in this discussion, CGNAT is becoming more widespread and Zerotier works transparently with CGNAT. Possibly a bit harder to setup than some of the options in the video, but certainly no harder than TailScale. The big plus from my viewpoint is on the "client" side - the connection setup appears to work regardless of how the client is connecting to the internet, especially when using a mobile/LTE connection. In the past I've had connection issues when my laptop was using a 4G/5G modem or a cell-phone "hotspot". I've never (yet!) encountered any issues with ZeroTier when using those types of connectivity
I need this, oh my god. But I have been struggling setting all of this network stuff up, always pushing through till I get it right eventually. Did you install in on root or with docker?
I hope I can manage to set it up
You rock as always SpaceRex! You've helped learn everything I know about my new NAS. Thank you!
a huge thank you, as you made me successful in one simple task I was failing since months !!
Do you know what kind of transfer speed I can achieve between two 500 Mbit/s /up and down networks with this openvpn settings and by adding the 10.8… network share to the finder ? Right now, it struggles beyond 5Megs…
also if you are talking about remote access, then you should also cover the security aspects for this type of setup. There are so many instances of newbies getting wrecked because they setup remote and it was not done properly. So maybe some guidance on security tips for this type of setup should also go hand in hand with this topic you covered.
the best security setup is to keep nas for lan usage only. but if you need remote, then the security aspect needs to be discussed so you don't slip up.
Let's discuss the security setup. Explain..
THANK YOU sooooooo much! Wonderful tutorial - you've saved me loads of time! Really appreciate you making these videos!
Awesome video, thanks for posting and helping me with the decision to purchase. Bro also, I'm surprised you're not bleeding more after all the cuts.
I wonder why this channel doesnt have at least 5 times its current sub. Really good vid 👍🎉
Thanks for the run down of the options.
You've been an amazing help for getting my NAS set up man. Thank you 🙏🏼
Like many of us, we have NAS as multimedia & pic sharing. One common and easy access on your local net often unaware & overlooked is DLNA! All smart TV's and even my Bluray player have built in DLNA players for photos, videos, & pics. Can all be done wirelessly (although I recommend ethernet). Synology has provisions for this. Great episode Rex👍
That is a good one! DLNA is clunky, but tends to be the most reliable way to get media on smart TV's
Thanks for the Videos SpaceRex! They always help me out!
Well described, well skilled. I wish i could apply this also but i am suffering from DS-Lite on Vodafone in Germany and this offers no port forwarding but IPv6 Host Exposure. So my skills are not (yet) good enough to find a solution, youtube is rather confusing me with the various recordings. But i consider your sources as one of the best, understandable and focused. BR Uwe
Couldn't have come at a better time. I am currently setting up a 1823XS+ right now.
Awesome man! How do you like the DS1823xs+?
Fantastic so far although I havent had time to really "play" with it. Ive been getting the raid setup and all the users and passwords squared away so far. Then comes the migration and remote access fun.
Awesome tute as always Will!
Excellent video, easy to follow and exactly what I was looking for :) thanks a lot!
Perfectly timely, I just got a block of static IPs from my ISP and was looking at how I wanted to go about self-hosting a VPN
The forums look great, signed up at the first video the algorithm showed me that you mentioned it in
Thanks man! Glad you like them! They have been a ton of fun so far
Your videos are awesome man. Thanks for everything.
The best on the internet!
Who would've thought Jimmy Tatro was so good with tech tutorials
thanks , finaly i did it , im looking for this video long time a go 🙏🏻
Thought I could do this myself but I was wrong, many thanks for your help!
5 ways???? That’s why I don’t have this going 😅 But I will soon..thanks for this and all your videos! Hope you and your wife are enjoying Raleigh.. Lived there once in my early IT days..Will move back to Raleigh in 3-4 years.. beautiful place
Great video. Thanks for putting it out.
Great video. Thank you. I am using windows. My mapped drives continue to work whether on my LAN (without Tailscale running) or remotely (with Tailscale). So you can use the netbios or multicast dns name perfectly. They can also be used to access the web gui for the Synology NAS. (at least this was my experience)
God bless you ! Such a precise, neat and usefull tutorial!! Thanks so much !
Thank you for making this video. For the first time I was able to setup my remote webdav access following your instructions which did the trick. Very helpful and useful video. Already sub'd you.👍
Thanks man!
My remote access method uses reverse proxy. I bought a SSL certificate for my personal domain name and access DSM and all services running on my Synology that way. Using reverse proxy, I don't need to open any ports and simply have port 443 forwarded to my NAS. All access to my Synology NAS is encrypted using SSL. This method allows me to easily share my media library with others out of my home and allows users to login into their accounts via a simple encrypted URL. The VPN method is great, but I find it more limited since only specific clients configured for VPN access can be used - which I agree, certainly has its benefits. Using HTTPS is super fast even on lower bandwidth-higher latency connections.
So just one thing to know about this is it does leave the services exposed to the internet. There is a layer of security through obscurity in there with having to know the domain name
@@SpaceRexWill But doesn't having any other ports forwarded to the NAS also expose it to the Internet? Or when one connects through a VPN, there is still a remote connection being made to the NAS which requires credentials to be entered. What is the real security risk with using the reverse proxy method? Is it just someone guessing the login credentials? I want to make sure I am not making my NAS anymore vulnerable than necessary.
So when you have a VPN setup a user has to first authenticate to the VPN server, before being allowed on the local network. This means if something on the local network has a vulnerability, it still cannot be exploited unless someone gets on the local network, or through the VPN
With a reverse proxy you don't have authentication, this means that if there is a vulnerability on that local service you have given access to, someone *could* exploit it, but just knowing the hostname
unlikely to happen, for the most part, but still something to think about
@@SpaceRexWill Ah. Makes perfect sense now! Thanks so much. I guess I need to reconsider some things.
it's nice you mentioned tailscale. however for vpn server you should probably add setting up vpn server using router besides just the inbuilt synology vpn server setup. Some people prefer setting up vpn server on the router rather than the nas. It's fine if you want to show how the later is done, but don't neglect showing the former as well.
Also tailscale is supported as a package on pfsense, so that is one less headache for setting it up compared to say hosting it directly on the NAS itself that requires a few more complex steps to setup.
Good point. @spacerex, if the VPN server is installed and a router also exists on the network, will other devices on the network still be able to access the shares. Does the VPN isolated the NAS resources from the wider local network?
Thank you so much for the nice tut, really it was very useful ☺🤗
23:39 If you click "Show certificate" it will pop up a Certificate description and you can check the "Always trust" thingy and then you won't see that message again.
Great video…as usual. I use VPN Plus to connect through my Synology router when I am on my laptop and away from home. However, I use Quickconnect and Drive to access files on my iPhone. Would I be better off connecting my phone to my LAN through VPN rather than Quickconnect and using Drive to access files that way? It is a little more cumbersome to connect but perhaps more secure and maybe quicker as you are not relaying through Synology’s servers.
There was a new DSM update yesterday due to a SSL vulnerability. 2-3 days ago all of my units using quickconnect and other remote access have been emailing me of this change. Synology’s help pages are pretty poor on explaining this. Will you be doing a video on how to fix this?
You are seriously amazing
Thank you so much! finally I got my VPN working!
Thank you for the help! My wife has about 90,000 photos and videos spread across multiple devices. I'd like to consolidate them in a single place with a raid-1 type backup so she can view/edit all photos from her iPad. Max of around 2TB of data. Is the Synology system my best bet for making this work? Liked and subscribed!
Whow, tailscale is just perfect!
What do you use it for? Curious if its transfer speeds are strong enough for music production and/or video editing.
@@g.o.9513 I use tailscale for the things which I can do at home, but normaly not at other locations. The second part of your question you really do have to ask Wil, because I don’t know. I think it depends on the speed of the internetconnection you have at home and at the location you are at and that sort of factors. Video editting and music production via tailscale is not a good idea I think.
Thanks for this video, it helped a lot. On a side note, I have to say that based on your persona and your looks ... you could have easily been a replacement for Jeffrey Donovan (aka Michael Weston) on 'Burn Notice'. I love that show.
Great video, thanks
NICE! THX SO MUCH, YOUR MY HERO!
His voice is so smooth, he could have conversation with you in a room of sleeping babies and they would just be soothed further to sleep
Wow the timing of this video is perfect. I have been trying in vain to setup my Synology NAS with PPTP (I know old and weak) on my Android phone but it did not play ball at all. This came into my feed and BINGO OpenVPN worked first time with your help. Thank you. Just a quick question on the OPENVPN setup it asks if access to the LAN is required, by default it is OFF, I assume this would route requests from the external VPN network to the local network via the Synology router?
Have you tried Cloudflare tunnels with synology yet?
Great video, thank you! For the OpenVPN option I am stuck on the last step, importing the profile. Neither through importing the OVPN file nor connecting by URL. It keeps giving me a timeout error and I have no clue what exactly is wrong. So close, yet so far. I hope I can figure it out, any tips would be appreciated!
Here we are a year later. How does On Demand Sync for Mac work these days? Is it production ready? I plan to use it a lot.
Please show in detail how to build a website from start to finish, as well as how to set the public IP
One other advantage of Tailscale is you can set up a local and remote NAS to backup one to the other using Hyper Backup. 👍🏻
Please provide instructions.
Hey, does it mount like a local drive? Western Digital just pulled the WD Discovery! so I lost "local" mount. I just need it mount so I can use windows explorer
With more and more ISPs using CGNAT WebDAV and OpenVPN is just something to dream about. And this year it is 25 years since IPv6 became a Draft Standard. Still almost no ISP use it, at least in Norway.
thankfully there are a ton of services coming out like Tailscale, which are designed for big companies, but allow people with CGNAT to still get remote access to the NAS!
You are amazing, thankyou!
Thanks for turtorial. One question about ddns, I disabled the ddns but I can still access my dsm. How do I turn off the access to DSM after disabling the ddns? I still want to access synology drive from the outside though. Thanks
You are a god send.
Will you comment on quick connect "test connection" when it fails, please??
Thank you for the wonderful walkthroughs!
Question: Is there a way for me to connect to my Synology via DDNS when I’m on the same local network? My use case is essentially just working off my laptop at home with the Synology on the same network. Thank you!
Are those two LG UltraFine 5K displays? What stand are you using for them?
Thanks. 1 Question: For the 5 methods described, I presume the authentification and the files are send over the internet encrypted? With a strong encryption?
When connecting remotely, do you only see a list of file names, or can you see thumbnails of photos, videos, and pdfs like you can locally? I want to open my giant collection of historic family photos and scanned documents for my family to see, so the thumbnails are important.
Hi, Will, very good job on providing these tutoring videos. Thank you very much. Here is my question, if my friend used option 1 and gave me his quickconnect link, a local user name and password, what is the easiest way of download files/folders to my Synology NAS? He doesn't want to bother with other methods. Thanks again.
You would have to download them and then upload them to your nas
Thank you. Great YT.
Hi, thanks for great turtorial. I manged to add it to my laptop, how do i add it to another users laptop
will you make a tutorial about headscale? :D
KindaAdults might be my favorite WiFi name.
Hi thanks for the great tutorial. I have a question about using quickconnect vs open VPN. A). When you transfer files (large amount) from one drive/folder to another. which is faster? If I'm not mistaken, with quicconnect Synology does the work, but using VPN my mac is in charge of the transfer and depending on my connection does thing go slower? B). Plus I can't close my mac until the transfer is over right? where as with quick connect, even if i close my browser the transfer should continue.
I was thinking about tailscale, is it possible to use Synology photo and upload every videos and photos during a trip ? I think it’s a good idea maybe. What do you think ? Right now , I use synology photo only on my local network and I let run synology photo on my iPhone from time to time to upload everything to my nas.
Tailscale just made some changes to their free plan. According to an email that I received from them yesterday ( April 18 ) : "Some significant changes are that the Personal plan is now called Free, and it includes nearly everything that Tailscale has to offer for up to 3 users and 100 devices. "
Yeah I saw that!
They made it seem like it was 'more free stuff', but I was not completely sure if it was actually better or not
Thanks for the video. You sound like Iron man :)
Can you sync one Synology drive with two different folders in two different computers?
Which methode is faster for uploading and downloading files any where in the world?
thanks. From the Synology Drive can you only choose one folder to sync? What if I need multiple folders? Also, are the users and permissions respected? thanks again.
Great explaination. is it pissible using the last method to restrict users to a group/folder on the nas so we can work together on the files in that folder without giving them access to the rest of the nas?
Yes. All of these methods also require the user to be granted permissions to a specific folder
Fantastic explanations - thank you! I used WebDAV previously, but changed my ISP which now runs behind a CGNAT, so I am unable to use the WebDAV option further as I do not have a public IP address any more. I currently only use Tailscale, and it works fine, but have been interested in the VPN Server option. Do you have any advice on whether the VPN Server will work if being behind a CGNAT as I suspect the DDNS will not connect due to the public IP issue. Any feedback will be appreciated! Many Thanks!
Hi, hope u well, pulling the contents of synology drive to grid in c#, how would prevent the unsynced due to invalid file name or attribute error..as i get a yellow screen that i can seem to catch so i can give the user a message, is there a way i could do that
Thank you for your video! I was wondering if the Tailscale method would work with any file manager in Linux (in your video you state MacOS and Windows)? Thank you! 🙂
i do NOt understand and hopefully someone can enlighten me... i have seen a number of videos from different creators and they recommend connection via tailscale/openvpn saying Quickconnect is a vunerability. But surely , disabling admin user, and having 2 factor authorisation vis SMS , quick connect should be safe (unless incase synology themselves get hacked?)
Hiya Will (and gang and fans)
Stumbled upon your channel and very great tutorials re-doing my entire Syn-Ecosystem - very helpful!
Was wondering if anyone knows the best solution to access other packages remotely? Let's say a Sonarr, Radarr, etc. on their respective ports.
I've noticed QuickConnect doesn't support this and solely wants to keep you in their little DSM bubble.
Would one of the VPN options work here? Let's say, on my phone, could I then simply access those 'port-tools' from anywhere?
Many thanks!
I have seen many of your videos but one important dealbreaker remains unsolved for me. No matter what I do, my remote access download speed from the NAS to the client device is super slow. I am not on QuickConnect (connected directly through DDNS). The download speed from it is around 1 MB/s. The NAS is on 1000/1000 fiber, the router confirms 1000 Mbit connection through the cat7 cable. The client device is on 5G (approx 100 Mbit download). There is only 1 client device. The NAS is not doing anything in the background. I hope you can give some feedback or address this better in a video. Thank you.
Hello, great Video thank you. Now I have a Question since Ian looking into getting a 4 Bay NAS and have to consider my budget I am looking Arcturus DS423 (Value Series). I know a plus model would be better but what are your thoughts on the 423?
Thank you
Good overview, thank you! Can I use the OpenVPN method through my synology NAS to *phone in* from abroad and watch my US netflix shows? In other words: pretend I’m watching from home when I’m abroad?
Yes! This is actually better then using a paid VPN, as this is your literal home IP address, so it will not get flagged.
You just want to make sure that you do not use split tunnel, you want to send all your traffic to your home! You can customize this with that openVPN config file