Remotely mounting a windows share from FreeNAS

[zbaker24]

Hello, I've been trying to set up freenas to be able to mount to all of my family's computers so they can all backup to some old hardware I had, I set up a volume and created a jail with openVPN using this guide: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...-6-with-access-to-remote-hosts-via-nat.22873/

Everything with openVPN is working as the guide shows and FreeNAS says tun0 is up

I was curious how I would be able to use this setup to map network drives to all of my family's remote computers securely using OpenVPN as a tunnel or something, I mainly need this method to work to keep it easier on my family when they try and access these files as they are really only familiar with the windows file explorer and don't wanna mess around with separate clients and the like (I planned on making a shared folder for everyone to share files easily as well).

My FreeNAS and openvpn jail are currently tied to local ips, 192.168.x.x, I purchased a domain on namecheap and have access to URL redirects, CNAMES and DNS nameserver options and whatnot but I'm not sure what files I need to edit to tie FreeNAS to these things if it's even necessary.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[dlavigne]

Did you figure out a method for accomplishing this?

 

[zbaker24]

Did you figure out a method for accomplishing this?

I have had no such luck, if anyone even has an idea that I could prod around with I'll gladly take that as well.

 

[SeaWolfX]

A year old post, but I am curious about this. I want to use my FreeNAS in much the same way and set up easy Explorer like interface for my family members to transfer and access their files on the FreeNAS server from their remote locations. What would be the best way to go about achieving this?

 

[melloa]

A year old post, but I am curious about this. I want to use my FreeNAS in much the same way and set up easy Explorer like interface for my family members to transfer and access their files on the FreeNAS server from their remote locations. What would be the best way to go about achieving this?

https://nextcloud.com/ or https://owncloud.com/ or similar. You don't want to expose your CIFs to the internet ...