How to Remotely Access Files on Your Network Storage Device: Step 1 of 3

Manipulating files on your ShareCenter electronic network memory device is easy: Burn down up your device in the network section of Windows Explorer to add, delete, move, and copy files to your heart's content.

But what if you lack to entree these files from a computer that's outside of your web? Lucky for you, I'll cover that in this and the next a couple of blog posts.

Freshman, if your net storage device is behind a router — and I hope it is, for maximum data security (among separate reasons) — you're going to need to sassy a interface to your ShareCenter gimmick. Why? Your router necessarily to know non to block requests for your network repositing device's Web host. By forwarding a specific port, you'rhenium essentially creating a digital tunnel, which you past use of goods and services to forge a connection between an external system and your network memory device.

To bold a port on a D-Link router, adopt these stairs:

Fire up your router's web configuration screen, log-in, and click on the top navigation button to annoy the "Advanced" menu.
Clack on Port Forwarding in the sidebar.
Enter a list for the Port Promotion. I habituate, simply, "NAS."
Enter your NAS box's Information science come up to in the "IP Address" field
Enter "80" for both the TCP and UDP ports.
Save your settings

Those should be completely the options you require to set. Although the circumstantial fields could vary depending on your router, the options should be clearly labeled and similar to the above stairs.

Port promotion is a superior-helpful concept in networking, one whose greater applicability I'll explore further in the future. All the same, for your network reposition-to-outward system file-sharing, the side by side concept you need to master is dynamic DNS — conveniently, the susceptible of my next post!

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