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/

The T-Rex toy doesn't go unnoticed. Well done.

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! 😎👍🏻

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.

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 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!!

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.

Amazingly helpful guide. Set up the OpenVPN method with no issues. You're a lifesaver!

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.

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

Your videos have been incredibly helpful for a first timer setting up my DS423+. Thank you SpaceRex

Thank you So much for Months we had issues connecting to our NAS via internet the 3rd Option for *Tailscale* really helped🙏

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👍

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.

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!

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.

Thanks Will! Hope the move went well for you and you are all settled in.

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

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

You have made this set up incredibly easy. Thank you so much!

I wonder why this channel doesnt have at least 5 times its current sub. Really good vid 👍🎉

You've been an amazing help for getting my NAS set up man. Thank you 🙏🏼

Who would've thought Jimmy Tatro was so good with tech tutorials

Couldn't have come at a better time. I am currently setting up a 1823XS+ right now.

SpaceRex rocks & Synology Drive rolls!

a huge thank you, as you made me successful in one simple task I was failing since months !!

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.

amazing tutorial! you are so succinct and clear. Simply the best tutorial I have ever come across for synology nas on youtube.

You rock as always SpaceRex! You've helped learn everything I know about my new NAS. Thank you!

The best Synology channel with the best haircut !!!

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

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.

great explanations - painless installation of the 3 and 5th methods. op show!

THANK YOU sooooooo much! Wonderful tutorial - you've saved me loads of time! Really appreciate you making these videos!

Thought I could do this myself but I was wrong, many thanks for your help!

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!

Excellent video, easy to follow and exactly what I was looking for :) thanks a lot!

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.👍

Thanks for the Videos SpaceRex! They always help me out!

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.

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.

thanks , finaly i did it , im looking for this video long time a go 🙏🏻

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?)

One other advantage of Tailscale is you can set up a local and remote NAS to backup one to the other using Hyper Backup. 👍🏻

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.

Very helpful Will

Your videos are awesome man. Thanks for everything.

Thank you so much for the nice tut, really it was very useful ☺🤗

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

Awesome tute as always Will!

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?

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

God bless you ! Such a precise, neat and usefull tutorial!! Thanks so much !

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?

NICE! THX SO MUCH, YOUR MY HERO!

Whow, tailscale is just perfect!

Please show in detail how to build a website from start to finish, as well as how to set the public IP

Great video, very well done, thanks!

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.

Thank you so much! finally I got my VPN working!

Great video. Thanks for putting it out.

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!

great vid! I'm trying to set up tail scale on my gas but can't get anywhere. I installed the app and click on open and it says my devices key has expired. It does not do anything when I click on the blue reauthenticate button. I was able to install it on my Mac just fine. I'm only having this issue on my Nas. Any help you can give would be great! Thanks

Have you tried Cloudflare tunnels with synology yet?

BROOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! ive been trying to figure out my nas for a while now. trying to get everything to mount like I have a physical cable running. for the Tailscale when you have to enter a password when you connect to server. what password does it require? ive changed the password on the quick connect section and tried everything I could. I get rejected and im not sure which password they require. this is driving me insane

yoooo this tailscale option seems great

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. "

Hey. Thanks for all the content. It helps me a lot. I made a backup via Synology c2 And I can't recover files through the software. And not through the Nas. I would appreciate it if you could make a video on the subject. Thanks ❤

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.

Good day! just want to ask if is it possible to speed up my read and write speed thru the internet? Example is my NAS is at my house and i will access my NAS in the province its like 300km away from our house? Thank you!

My nas is working on mobile network, its not connecting to any of the links shared in photos app

KindaAdults might be my favorite WiFi name.

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?

Can you sync one Synology drive with two different folders in two different computers?

i tried to follow him on how to do the WebDav, go to external access, and select DDNS with the Service Provider being Synology, and right out of the gate, it stopped me saying 'You can only set one hostname for each DDNS provider.

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!

Great video, thanks

Which user name and password do you use on your mac to access one of your devices. I'm on the road and this isn't working for me after I set it up at home. I added the address on my MAC but I don't know what user name and password to use. None are giving me access to my devices.

Hi, thanks for great turtorial. I manged to add it to my laptop, how do i add it to another users laptop

I run open vpn on my Raspberry Pi so I can have a secure connection when on travel. Can I run a second copy of open vpn for my Synology? If so do I just follow your instruction ast #5? Thank you.

Using DS223, can I access my files remote outside of my home network (i.e. on mobile device at a restaurant)

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! 🙂

Excellent video with great information. I found this video while searching for info on how to access my Synology through the internet. Thank you!

Very interesting video, thank you. I've been considering a NAS for over a year, mostly to replace the Apple iCloud service my wife and daughters are currently using as I'm sick and tired of the monthly payment bs (talking about iPhone backups here). My chief concern was how does everyone in the family connect to my "home cloud" outside of the house. Something for me to mull over a little more. As a side note and completely unrelated, I must say that your style of presentation and enunciating are quite interesting and even a little humorous (not trying to denigrate you here). I can't figure out if you sound more like "Bill S. Preston Esq." or "'Ted' Theodore Logan" or even if you're from San Dimas, but heck I enjoy your content nonetheless. Thank you! 🙂

You are a god send.

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.

what about the slow speed via QuickConnect while having the "Synology relay" is checked? once I unchecked this option it started to work fast, but there are a few drawbacks for example my "sharing links" don't work in local wifi or can't play videos in Synology drive (while connected to the same wifi as my server) - it says my certificate is not valid.

Would not being able to select and apply "Synchronize with NTP server", under Regional Options, affect me being able to use the Quick connect?

Definitely a lot of great options. I'm curious why you didn't mention cloudflare tunnels though? I'm just curious if you think it's less secure than these other methods or something. I've been using it for the past few weeks and, outside of not being able to use the mobile apps with the domain I set up, it works great for me.

What would be the best way to have a server at home for my small business and at my office have 3 or 4 workstations accessing an EHR program on the home server? Would it work if I had a windows server on it that my employee can access?

Thanks for all you do!! I’ve learned a lot from your videos. I was just able successfully to setup an OpenVPN connection using my router and works well but when I disable quickconnect my iPhone’s synology drive stops working (vpn or home network). Am I doing something wrong? Would the outcome be different if I setup the vpn connection through my NAS?

You are amazing, thankyou!

Cleanest office I have ever seen...LOL....

Can you please do a video on how to mount a Synology shared folder onto a linux machine that does NOT have a graphical user interface. So linux machine is on the network and can be access via SSH, but it is all in the terminal, nothing GUI. How does one map a Shared Folder in such a scenario?

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

I spoke with Synology support and they said you can backup a computer outside the Network SYnology is on. I have a PC in storage I want to backup to Synology Nas at Home. But I have had no luck. Any pointers?

I previously set up QuickConnect and now I'd like to add the Tailscale package. But I can't figure out how to disconnect from quickconnect (I'm a newb) - install the Tailscale package on my Synology and then reconnect to QuickConnect for when I am at home. Any help is appreciated.

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.