I just recieved and installed my N5200PRO. What a cool box!!!!
The purpose of this NAS is to act as a central storage device for my large collection of digital images, and to act a music server running the Slimserver. The music files are stored on the NAS.The image and music folders are currently under a public share, mapped as a network drive on my PC.
I'm trying to figure out how to properly configure my network in order to secure the NAS as much as possible. I currently have a cable modem, a wired/wireless router, a PC and a laptop. At this point in time, my router is connected to the cable modem, both my PC and NAS are hard-wired to the router, and my laptop and Squeezebox device use a wireless connection. The NAS is connected to the router via the WAN port.
My router and my wireless network configuration is, I believe, rather secure. The router has a built-in firewall (enabled), does not broadcast its SSID, has WPA-PSK/TKIP security enabled, and uses MAC address filtering to only allow my laptop and Squeexzbox to connect wirelessly to it.
Still, I'm concerned about having the NAS connected to my router via the WAN port, but I do not know whether I can do anything safer...
My requirements are as follows:
- I would like to keep my printers connected to my PC, and access these from my laptop
- I would like to continue sharing a few folders on my PC, and access these from my laptop
- I need HTTP access from my PC to the NAS
- The Slimserver software, which serves the wireless Squeezebox device, runs as a web application and needs to give http (I think) access from the Squeezebox to the NAS
- I need to access the Slimserver configuration page via HTTP from my PC, and would also like to access it from the laptop if possible.
I do not think that, given the above requirements, I can change my NAS connection from WAN to LAN. But as I don't know much as about the NAS and Linux, I'd really appreciate the feedback from this community as to how to make my setup as safe as possible. My main concern has to do with not giving hackers access to the NAS.
TIA,
Rob