This was acomplished in my firewall.Īlso, very important, i have set up IP filter (auto-ban) for all protocols on the QNAP so if anyone attempts to log in to any account (and fails, ie password is wrong) more than 5 times over 10 minutes, I will ban that IP address for 24 hours. I have opened https access to my qnap admin interface but only letting through traffic from my workplace, and i have opended the Qdownload/QGet traffic, also only from the network of my workplace.

Instead, set up port forwarding, and let through only the traffic you need.įor example: i have opened FTP to my qnap, but disabled anonymous logins to the FTP. Explicitly, you do NOT want to let the whole internet access every port on your QNAP, so do not enable the DMZ option in your firewall. Make an active decision on which services you want to be accessible from the internet and open these connections (ports) in the firewall of your Linksys router.

You can probably set up things like forward port 81 on incoming internet connection to port 80 on the QNAP if you want (or change the admin interface port on your internet router from 80 to something else like 14568 ) but let's put some basic protection in place before you start playing around. Some are probably already running on etcetera. So the next thing to do is figure out what services, if any (http server, ftp server, QNAPadmin-interface, QDownload-station) you want to expose to the internet and which ports to use for this. If you get a warning that the certificate is not valid, it is probably working (!) so go ahead and accept to use this invalid security certificate. In fact it is highly likely that it is already set up in this way, try to surf to (your address instead of xxx) and see what happens.

If you still want to expose your QNAP to the internet You will need to set up your QNAP admin interface on another port, preferrably 443 (https) If you want to expose it to the internet in any way be sure to set up strong passwords especially for the admin, and be sure to use the latest firmware (the latest beta version, if there is one for your QNAP model) You can check your password strength here. If you really want it to run like this (security risk!) be sure to set a really strong password on your internet router and be sure to use the latest firmware for it. You apparently have the admin interface of your internet router exposed to the internet on standard http port 80.

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