Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 10:38:33AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > >> My router also has two USB plugs for sharing external hard drives or USB >> sticks. I'm not talking about that because I don't like hooking a drive >> up over USB. It never works well for some reason. According to the >> link below, I hook the NAS up to the router via ethernet and it is >> available for all devices connected to the router. I'd guess that I can >> also make it accessible to the internet to but I doubt I'll do that. If >> it is set that way by default, I'll google and find out how to disable >> that. Linky: > For a typical router that hides your home net from the outside via NAT, > you’d have to set up port forwarding in order to reach anything on the > inside. I run nginx on my raspi for Nextcloud and PIM syncserver, and I > make them available that way. >
So it defaults to not being accessible from the internet. Good to know. I figured it would be the default. Now to get around to doing all this. Still paying on my new mattress and friends. It sleeps good now but be better when it is paid for. :/ Thanks. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Like the little sayings in the sig. They funny and sometimes require some thinking. :-D