Is there a general question about a virtual private network? Don't laugh, I know it sounds weird but here we go.
Is there a general question about a virtual private network? Don't laugh, I know it sounds weird but here we go.
Stop laughing. I know why people make fun of me sometimes, but this question needs to be taken seriously. My NAS was getting unwanted login tries all by myself. I learned that a NAS should stay away from the internet, so I set up a VPN on my Asus router using OpenVPN. What I think is like making a tunnel so that any device on my network can't be hacked without permission. For instance, if someone uses their laptop over public WiFi, they can get to my home network or browse the web safely without anyone listening in on my data. But picture of a tunnel shows two ends. One end is my home network where my NAS lives. What happens at the other end?
You run your own apps on a remote device. A special connection, called a tunnel, links that app to the open vpn software sitting on your router. It takes some time to set this up first, but after you get it working, everything runs pretty much like at home... well, just a little slower because of all the extra steps involved.
If you can reach it through an internet connection like public WiFi, then it is open for outsiders. So, someone else might try to log in there. Whether using a virtual private network or not doesn't change that fact. You probably have a strong password and turned off the factory login settings by default.